Young Ed Posted September 4, 2010 Report Posted September 4, 2010 http://www.newson6.com/global/story.asp?s=13098236 Quote
Dennis Hemingway Posted September 4, 2010 Report Posted September 4, 2010 I hate to see that happen to any drive in theater. This is what the local Route 66 Museum and the local drive in are doing in our area. Dennis:D http://cruzinbuddies.com/Graffiti0910.jpg Quote
Captain Neon Posted September 5, 2010 Report Posted September 5, 2010 While a terrible loss, the Admiral Twin is not the only Drive-In in Tulsa. There is a four screen along US-412. Very popular. I want to believe that the Admiral will be back bigger and better than before. Quote
Rodney Bullock Posted September 6, 2010 Report Posted September 6, 2010 Young ED, it is a sad thing. I think you don't have anything to worry about because I know they were insured. I want so badly to have a drive in here in my neck of the woods. I have talked to so many people that have the money to do it however they don't want the headache. They say the folks here can't control themselves and act like they have good sense. In parts they are right. Why should I and my small circle of friends have to suffer, we will. The only thing you have to worry about is when your city gets so out of contril that you start no enjoying yourself. That's a great idea having the museum sell prepaid tickets that way you can screen the people before hand. We have a drive in that's in Baltimore county. Such a long drive I can't seem to get out there. Good luck keep us informed. Quote
Young Ed Posted September 6, 2010 Author Report Posted September 6, 2010 Rodney its sad. The news article has a quote of the owner saying no insurance company would insure that wooden structure. So no insurance money to rebuild. I ran into it because I joined a group to help save the cottage grove drive in thats here in MN. Carmon and I saw Dispicable Me there a few weeks ago. We went in the 46 pickup and parked it backwards to sit in the bed and watch. Quote
JoelOkie Posted September 6, 2010 Report Posted September 6, 2010 http://www.newson6.com/global/story.asp?s=13098236 I have been going to the Admiral all my life, from high school on. We fell off from going the last decade or so, as satilite tv became available. My bride has been after me all summer to go, but it had been so hot we didn't get out there. She called and told me..."well you got out of taking me to the drivein..." It IS a sad day, and I for one personally have some pretty damn good memories of that old place. Joel Quote
Captain Neon Posted September 6, 2010 Report Posted September 6, 2010 Young ED, it is a sad thing. I think you don't have anything to worry about because I know they were insured. I want so badly to have a drive in here in my neck of the woods. I have talked to so many people that have the money to do it however they don't want the headache. They say the folks here can't control themselves and act like they have good sense. In parts they are right. Why should I and my small circle of friends have to suffer, we will. The only thing you have to worry about is when your city gets so out of contril that you start no enjoying yourself. That's a great idea having the museum sell prepaid tickets that way you can screen the people before hand. We have a drive in that's in Baltimore county. Such a long drive I can't seem to get out there. Good luck keep us informed. http://mobmov.org/manifesto/ Quote
BeBop138 Posted September 6, 2010 Report Posted September 6, 2010 Rodney its sad. The news article has a quote of the owner saying no insurance company would insure that wooden structure. So no insurance money to rebuild. I ran into it because I joined a group to help save the cottage grove drive in thats here in MN. Carmon and I saw Dispicable Me there a few weeks ago. We went in the 46 pickup and parked it backwards to sit in the bed and watch. Me and sweets did the same thing at the old Lucky Twin---backed the 55 Chev Sedan Delivery backwards and looked out the back door window---we were dating then, back in the stone age lol.....Lee Quote
JIPJOBXX Posted September 6, 2010 Report Posted September 6, 2010 We had one of those old drive-ins in Menlo Park California when I was growing up. The owner decided he didn't like the cars circling around his business so he put up a wall in back. Well it worked but guess what he went out of business just a few short years latter. He messed with the kids and the kids got the best of it. Quote
JoelOkie Posted September 6, 2010 Report Posted September 6, 2010 (edited) I wish I had a buck for every kid my sister snuck in to the show in the trunk of her 51 Plymouth. If anyone really wants to hear about some drive in stories they need to find somone that attended the old Capri X rated drive in about 10 miles west of the Admiral Twin, in Sand Springs, Oklahoma. My wife and I went there one time right after we were married in 1975....ended up slinking out without lights, hoping like heck no one could identify us, about 20 minutes in to the "movie". I know people that lived behind that drive in that used to have problems with people parking in their yard, getting a free shot. Edited September 6, 2010 by JoelOkie Quote
JIPJOBXX Posted September 6, 2010 Report Posted September 6, 2010 I once went to a drive in threater and the next morning noticed in the back seat on the floorboard a speaker. I must have feel asleep durring the show and when it was over forgot about that speaker and just took oft. I still have that speaker and have rig it up so I can play my recorded music on it when I show oft the Dodge. Quote
JIPJOBXX Posted September 6, 2010 Report Posted September 6, 2010 Another story about those drive in days! This short as I took one girl out to see a show at our local drive in and in a few weeks later I took out another girl but to a different drive in. I didn't realize that when we drove in it was the same movie that I kind of watch a couple of weeks befor. Guess I must have just seen bits and pieces of that movie from the front seat and didn't remember the show:D. Oh yes that was the movie "The flight of the Phoenix" great movie!!!! Boy I remember one thing about those drive in was the food was terrible!!!! Quote
JoelOkie Posted September 6, 2010 Report Posted September 6, 2010 Another story about those drive in days! This short as I took one girl out to see a show at our local drive in and in a few weeks later I took out another girl but to a different drive in. I didn't realize that when we drove in it was the same movie that I kind of watch a couple of weeks befor. Guess I must have just seen bits and pieces of that movie from the front seat and didn't remember the show:D. Oh yes that was the movie "The flight of the Phoenix" great movie!!!!Boy I remember one thing about those drive in was the food was terrible!!!! I was kinda thinking the same about having rarely having seen a complete movie. It's funny, though, because I was talking to a girl that I took to the drive in while back in school about going to the show a few months ago. I was already 6'3", and she was 5'9", and had some pretty long legs herself. When we went to the drive in came up, and she commented something about having never being able to figure out how all those long legs fit in the back seat of that corvair I guess the best thing for us was one night during the week when business was slow they ran older movies and let people in for a buck a carload. Half the fun was packing the car! Quote
BobT-47P15 Posted September 6, 2010 Report Posted September 6, 2010 We still have the 66 Drive In over at Carthage, MO.....about 12 miles from Joplin. It went out of business several years ago and someone used it as a salvage yard. A few years ago, someone bought it and re-opened it as a drive in. Route 66 cruisers like to stop there as they're passing thru. We keep saying we're gonna go some evening, but haven't got there yet. They used it to film a segment of Great American Road Trip last summer.... took the car over for use as a prop. Quote
Edward Roberts Posted September 6, 2010 Report Posted September 6, 2010 I got engaged at a drive-in two years ago. My wife and I would like to go back in the Plymouth, but both of the drive-ins in our neck of the woods (literally, one is projected onto the side of a barn) use those modern radio transmitters - no crackling speakers for the window. With no radio in "Red" we might not be able to follow the plot of the movie Quote
Young Ed Posted September 6, 2010 Author Report Posted September 6, 2010 Just bring a battery operated radio. Thats how the wife and I did it a few weeks ago. Quote
JIPJOBXX Posted September 6, 2010 Report Posted September 6, 2010 Another comment about drive in's: A friend of mine turned me on to this about going to the drive in the rain. As most of the parking lot would be empty we would just drive up to the down side of the hill that you parked on and park sideways. This way the rain would not run into the car and you didn't haft to turn on the windshield wipers every few minutes (That's if you were paying attention to the movie). Quote
Captain Neon Posted September 7, 2010 Report Posted September 7, 2010 Nikki and I use radios w/ ear buds. We can custom adjust the volume and have a complete stereo effect. Quote
fstfish66 Posted September 11, 2010 Report Posted September 11, 2010 there is still a drive in in southern new jersey,,, i have not been there but they hold a car cruise inn once a year there and play car guy movies on that night,, i may have to check it out just to relive the old days Quote
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