What's on your Thursday Menu?

according to google, the last one in Madison closed in 1989 (I almost said only closed in 1989 but 1989 isn't as recent as my brain thinks it is!).

1989 is recent. I still have shoes from 1989.

We have 2 around here but both a distance from where I live and always packed. I do miss eating KFC in the back of the station wagon and falling asleep for the second movie. Good times.

I always remember being in the back of the station wagon at the drive in. Maybe drive ins died when station wagons disappeared.

I remember everyone watching from inside their cars. Now, everyone is basically tailgating.

Do you think our parents were ****tailing it and we did not realize? Silly me I know my mom was. She couldn't go that long without a drink.

I've always found old people talk more as they age. My father's older sister told some doozies about him.

After my mom passed, one of her friends from 3 blocks away told me a story from when my younger brother was a baby. All the women in the neighborhood had kids the same ages. They would put the kids in the strollers and "visit" each other, nearly every day. This woman told me they were out walking together when her husband pulled up, pretty angry. Apparently they were all soused, and anyone watching them trying to push a baby carriage down the street could tell. I guess the popular drink back then was chianti, in those fancy wicker bottles.

At least they weren't driving.

I found out that all my aunts were drinking booze out of their coffee cups at one family bbq. I was about 8 and I bit into something spicy and I grabbed my aunts mug because it was the nearest thing. Her "coffee" was kahlua and cream. She's never lived it down.

I can't even imagine sitting in my Honda Civic for two hours watching a movie. Or any car. UGH.

We do have one drive-in locally, but I think it only functions seasonally. I haven't been to it. The last drive in I went to was about 5 years ago when the first Guardians of the Galaxy came out. We sat in the back of our truck bed on lawn chairs to watch. It was a blast. They also used the car speakers for audio (which I didn't know about). Many people brought portable stereos for just that reason. I remember wishing I had a portable stereo for the back of the truck. Now, we have the mobile outdoor theater experience. My neighborhood usually does 1 or 2 family type movies in one of the grassy community areas where they rent a giant inflatable screen to project the movie onto.

I saw the Wizard of Oz about 1952. We did not have a television, so went to the movies often, probably about once a week. I was four and my sister was three and my brother two. My brother was terrified of the flying monkeys and cried so loud that we left and I did not see the end of the movie until years later. I remember the witch melting as we left the theater. Whatever sound quality was impressive to us because we did not have anything to compare it to.

Sound became a "thing" about 1967 when stereo was introduced. Everyone had a goal of buying a hi-fi stereo system and once you had one your house was the place to go to listen to music and to roll up the carpets and dance.