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Posted: 6/24/2017 5:06:42 PM EDT

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My wife says she has never been to a drive in. I do think the one in the town where we grew up might have been showing porno by the time she was a little girl

Posted: 6/24/2017 5:08:11 PM EDT

[#2]

"A Shot In the Dark" (A Pink Panther film) sometime around 1966/67 at Metropolitan State Hospital in Norwalk, CA (A State Mental Health Hospital).

Dad and Mom both worked there and dad was the projectionist for "Movie Night" (When he wasn't doing Recidivism studies on sex offenders)
once a week.

One of my earliest memories is of mom buying me a DR Pepper out of the pop machine (The one's that dropped a cup, dropped some ice
into said cup and then poured your selection into it.)

I was a "Pink Panther" fan up to Peter Sellers' death. RIP Peter.

Posted: 6/24/2017 5:08:53 PM EDT

[#3]

The live action Beauty and the Beast.

Posted: 6/24/2017 5:09:04 PM EDT

[#4]

The Fox and the Hound. The second one was ET.

Posted: 6/24/2017 5:12:37 PM EDT

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"It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World" at a drive-in somewhere in Columbus, OH. My parents said I was "distracted". I hope so... I was four years old!

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Frickin' GREAT movie! In my top 10!

"Don't call me Baby!"

Posted: 6/24/2017 5:20:45 PM EDT

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First I REMEMBER seeing was Jaws.

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Posted: 6/24/2017 5:24:39 PM EDT

[#7]

E.T.

Posted: 6/24/2017 5:25:36 PM EDT

[#8]

Jailhouse Rock, 1957. I was a little kid and my mom and older sister took me to the drive in theatre. I remember how they were going on about how good looking he was.

Posted: 6/24/2017 5:26:19 PM EDT

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My wife says she has never been to a drive in. I do think the one in the town where we grew up might have been showing porno by the time she was a little girl

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In 1970 I was 17 ...I had a cheap car and ten bucks for a Friday nite date

4 deviled crabs and 4 cokes and money left to hit the Sea Breeze Drive in in south tampa , right across the road...save a dollar to buy two mosquito pics( things you light on one end to chase bugs outa the car) and inspire Bob Seger to write The song ' Night Moves '...it was always hot

Still have the Ruskin Drive in going but it's mostly in Spanish....

Posted: 6/24/2017 5:28:29 PM EDT

[#10]

At the drive-in.

Posted: 6/24/2017 5:31:32 PM EDT

[#11]

"A Hard Days Night"

Posted: 6/24/2017 5:31:55 PM EDT

[#12]

Psycho at the drive-in, Hawthorne, NV
1960

Posted: 6/24/2017 5:34:55 PM EDT

[#13]

Matinee showing of the original Star Wars a few years after it came out, I think I was five or six.

The picture and audio was in really bad shape.

Posted: 6/24/2017 5:35:47 PM EDT

[#14]

Dirty Harry (1971)

Posted: 6/24/2017 5:37:34 PM EDT

[#15]

I think I read that in NY some drive ins were in financial trouble because they still used old film projectors, not digital projectors, and the studios are refusing to continue to make hard film copies of movies.

Posted: 6/24/2017 5:41:03 PM EDT

[#16]

I remember Lady and the Tramp, Bambi, 101 Dalmatians, and The Rescuers all when I was a kid but couldn't say which was the first.

Posted: 6/24/2017 5:50:22 PM EDT

[#17]

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, or Mary Poppins, or Jungle Book, or Robin Hood ( the cartoon ). I don't remember exactly, but one of those. The other early ones were Herby the Love Bug, Apple Dumpling Gang, Lady and the Tramp.

Posted: 6/24/2017 5:52:11 PM EDT

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Also my buddy bought coffee from a vending machine in the movie theater, so I did too. It was terrible and that is the only cup of coffee I have ever had.

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"A cat that sits on a hot stove lid will never sit on another one. But he won't sit on a cold one either." - Mark Twain

Don't "over-learn" any lesson.

Some coffee is good.

Posted: 6/24/2017 5:57:09 PM EDT

[#19]

The first movie that I can remember seeing at the drive-in was Blade Runner.
Couldn't hear shit cause I was under the screen at the kiddie park on the swings

Posted: 6/24/2017 6:04:04 PM EDT

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"A cat that sits on a hot stove lid will never sit on another one. But he won't sit on a cold one either." - Mark Twain

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i like that bit of wisdom--thanks.

Posted: 6/24/2017 6:15:12 PM EDT

[#21]

I grew up in a very conservative household. Our church did not encourage movie attendance because it promoted Hollywood. I snuck to my first movie when I was 15. Young Frankenstein

Posted: 6/24/2017 6:18:47 PM EDT

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I think it was a Godzilla movie. I loved me some Godzilla as a little one.

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Yep. I was all about Godzilla as well. Think my first flick was in 1976 as a 7 year old seeing "Godzilla vs Megalon". My mom got to the theater early and we walked in on a flick called "Sssssss". About some dude turning into a snake. Freaked me and my brother out. 70's movies were great. LOL.

Posted: 6/24/2017 6:19:43 PM EDT

[#23]

John Wayne and Kirk Douglas in the War Wagon. The next night Paul Newman and Patricia Neal in Hud.

Posted: 6/24/2017 6:23:16 PM EDT

[#24]

Damnation Alley

Posted: 6/24/2017 6:23:52 PM EDT

[#25]

I'm sure I went earlier, but the first one I remember is Paint Your Wagon in my parents 1960 Dodge Station wagon. With spiral citronella candles burning in the back. 1969 at 183 Drive In in Euless, Tx. Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood....fuck yeah!!!!

Posted: 6/24/2017 6:24:10 PM EDT

[#26]

Top Gun, I was 6

Posted: 6/24/2017 7:25:23 PM EDT

[#27]

I know I have been to a drive-in a few times before it, but the first movie I actually remember is Friday the 13th V. The last movie I saw at a drive-in was RoboCop. I don't know who lets a 6-year-old go to see RoboCop, but apparently my parents did.

Posted: 6/24/2017 7:29:12 PM EDT

[#28]

First movie I can remember was at the drive in. Dirty Mary and Crazy Larry. I always cheer for the bad guy ever since.

Posted: 6/24/2017 7:33:48 PM EDT

[#29]

The first movie I remember seeing was E.T.

My grandparents took us, and I thought it was a terrible movie.

35 years later, I still think it's a terrible movie. No idea what people see in it.

Posted: 6/24/2017 7:36:41 PM EDT

[#30]

Star Wars
Alien

both at drive in before it closed.

Posted: 6/24/2017 7:37:21 PM EDT

[#31]

Parents went to "The Way We Were" at the drive-in. I thought it was a total snooze fest, so I just crashed out in the back seat.

(Funny thing is, today... I love that movie.)

Posted: 6/24/2017 7:41:08 PM EDT

[#32]

First that I recall? Hmm Star Wars EP 4. Not sure how old I was 2 or 3 and I believe it was on a brief re-release.

VERY first memory of a movie. R2D2 and C3PO walking through that desert and the big spine in the background.

Posted: 6/24/2017 7:45:06 PM EDT

[#33]

The Duke The Green Braids at a drive in.

Posted: 6/24/2017 7:45:06 PM EDT

[#34]

Bambi 1966.

Posted: 6/24/2017 7:49:45 PM EDT

[#35]

I remember going to The Three Lives of Thomasina with my mother.

First drive-in I remember was 'Patton'

Posted: 6/24/2017 7:59:52 PM EDT

[#36]

The Passion of the Christ.

It was all downhill from there

Posted: 6/24/2017 8:10:52 PM EDT

[#37]

Could have been Herbie the Love bug, or one one of ththe later Herbie movies.
The first drive in movie I have any recollection of was Fiddler on the Roof. I know I didn't make it all the way through. It would have been the second movie, and no idea what the first movie was,

Posted: 6/24/2017 8:14:13 PM EDT

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I remember Lady and the Tramp, Bambi, 101 Dalmatians, and The Rescuers all when I was a kid but couldn't say which was the first.

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Same here. Except the one that stuck out was Fox & the hound in the theater, I was 7.

1st drive in was Vacation though, I remember that.

Posted: 6/24/2017 8:15:44 PM EDT

[#39]

Tombstone was my first at the ripe age of 5. Still watch that movie with my kids on my dads birthday since he passed.

Posted: 6/24/2017 8:17:07 PM EDT

[#40]

Mary poppins so 7-8. yrs old. Roger Sherman Theatre in New Haven.

But I to remember going to the drive in at about 9-10 yrs old. My parents were going to watch a late viewing of Rose Mary's Baby. I was asleep, mostly.

Posted: 6/24/2017 8:17:42 PM EDT

[#41]

I can still remember seeing parts of "The Sound of Music" in 1965 (I was 5 years old, my Mom brought us kids to see it). In particular, I remember the scenes from the garden gazebo and not much else.

The first movie I can remember seeing and understanding the premise of the movie was either "The Green Slime" or "Ice Station Zebra". I can't remember which one came out first, they are both from 1968.

The first drive in movie I ever saw was "The Legend of Boggy Creek" in 1973.

LC

Posted: 6/24/2017 8:19:40 PM EDT

[#42]

can't remember the movie, but it was The Lamp theater in Irwin, PA, ca. 1968.

drive-in was a porn when I was in High school. It was titled "Extremes" and was actually a XXX comedy.

we had a drive-in down on I-45/US 287 area 10 years ago. We took our daughter to some kids' movies there, and sat in the back of my F350.

Posted: 6/24/2017 8:21:32 PM EDT

[#43]

The original release of Star Wars A New Hope.

Posted: 6/24/2017 8:23:22 PM EDT

[#44]

I don't remember but I do know where the word cranky comes from.....

Posted: 6/24/2017 8:24:42 PM EDT

[#45]

I was a bit older by the time I saw my first movie. I got to see ET at the drive in. Unfortunately the drive in was torn down and a Pace Club was built. Pace was like a Sam's or Costco.

Posted: 6/24/2017 8:25:40 PM EDT

[#46]

I'm told that the first movie that I went to was The Godfather...when I was about 4 years old.

I'm also told that my mother hid my head under her coat during the horsehead scene

Posted: 6/24/2017 8:28:47 PM EDT

[#47]

2001: A Space Odyssey.

My dad took me; probably not a great idea. I was barely in double digits.

Posted: 6/24/2017 8:34:25 PM EDT

[#48]

The Sound of Music, Mayfair Theater, Hillside, NJ.

First drive-in, dunno. But I remember when I was in Babylon, NY, we drove out east somewhere to a drive-in so we could go watch a movie with a baby. Big Trouble in Little China.

Posted: 6/24/2017 8:37:19 PM EDT

[#49]

First Drive In: Smokey and the Bandit

First theater: The Apple Dumpling Gang

Posted: 6/24/2017 9:37:19 PM EDT

[#50]

First Drive-In movie I clearly remember was "Mischief." I guess it would have been summer of '85, and I would've just turned 11. I think it was the second of a double feature but i don't remember what the first was because Kelly Preston.

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