And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Monday, May 13, 2024
Immediately recognizable to anyone our age. I wonder what the very last movie was that was shown there.
DITMCO - Drive In Theater Movie Company - made those. They very successfully transitioned to making complex electric harness testing equipment used widely in Aerospace and other industries.
Been working in a shop that uses them for 20 years. Had no idea of the origin of the name until one of my coworkers mentioned it a couple of years ago. I thought he was lying until we took the kids to a drive in a few months later and I saw the name in the old, defunct car speakers.
Ah, yes. Backing my VW camper into a spot with my gal in the late 60s and...can't remember one plot from any of those movies but damn we had a good time.
The Last Picture Show, if the owner had any sense of style.
ReplyDeleteTook my future wife to that and Deliverance, and was totally embarrassed.
DeleteDITMCO - Drive In Theater Movie Company - made those. They very successfully transitioned to making complex electric harness testing equipment used widely in Aerospace and other industries.
ReplyDeleteBeen working in a shop that uses them for 20 years. Had no idea of the origin of the name until one of my coworkers mentioned it a couple of years ago. I thought he was lying until we took the kids to a drive in a few months later and I saw the name in the old, defunct car speakers.
DeleteI like Wild ,wide west answer but I bet it was a grade "B" horror. That was
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Either that or a porn, caused a lot of uproar here…
DeleteDuring Covid-19 government lockdowns, the drive-in’s were back in use in Idaho.
ReplyDelete...in a land far, far away...you can never go back home, to the good 'ol days.
ReplyDeleteThere is a drive-in 15 miles from me (Idaho). It is still in use during the summer.
ReplyDeleteI have one in the shop from the Savannah highway drive-in in Charleston that I acquired before they built a car dealership there.
ReplyDeleteDrive ins...generically referred to as the "finger bowl"? Credit Fred Reed.
ReplyDeleteAh, yes. Backing my VW camper into a spot with my gal in the late 60s and...can't remember one plot from any of those movies but damn we had a good time.
ReplyDeleteWhen a kid went to drive in movies all summer, I grocery shop there now
ReplyDeleteThe local drive-in in Concord, CA is still going strong
ReplyDeleteI wonder when that photo was taken. These days I think tweekers would have stripped those poles of everything they could sell for scrap.
ReplyDeletePorn, most likely. At least it was in my area.
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