One of my bucket list items done - see a drive-in movie. Even as a youngster in the 70s in Houston, the drive-in movie theater had gone the way of the Dodo bird. Plus my very proper parents would not think of putting into the car to go see a movie.
So when I was at my college reunion in Lexington, VA, I took the opportunity to go. Hull's Drive-In was barely operational in the 1980s and being that I didn't have a car some of those years, the reason for the drive-in. It has reinvigorated itself by becoming a community owned 501 C organization. Each sponsorship keeps it going.
Prices were reasonable of course, $7 for the car. I got there in the middle of the double feature, CHiPs, and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2. CHiPs was the basic Starsky and Hutch buddy cop silliness and you already have my review of GOTG2.
It was a lovely May Sunday evening for the show. The screen was large and had the captions up. You could hear the sound from all around, so I sat at a picnic table and watched in the nice night. It was like being at a camping trip. In fact I did see some people all stretched out with blankets, sleeping bags and such. I realized that was probably the real reason for going to the drive in. Nice and dark, parked away from others, sleeping bag, and ... [dot dot dot!]
There was a map showing that there are only 7 drive-ins in the entire state of Virginia. And they are in small rural mountain towns, like Lexington. Glad I got to see this endangered species.
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