A little nostolgia goes a long way.

The Drive in will never die!
This is a Link to an article about the drive in theater. Yesterday was the anniversary of the first drive in which began showing movies79 years ago. All of us here at the Crazy love the drive in. But can't remember the last time we went to one. The nearest open one is called the Moonlight Outdoor Theater, in Shawano Wisconsin. We are very tempted, (Not just tempted mind you, but VERY tempted) to attend. But of course we would have to rent a motel room, and spend the gas to get there which would make the normally eighteen dollar fee a bit high for an evening at the theater. But still... tempted.  In the article it states that people are setting up Gorilla Drive ins. Just projecting onto any large surface and showing the movie. Again, sounds like fun. (Illegal probably, but fun.) We don't know why we loved the drive in so much, maybe it was because we could drink while we were there. And we never had a designated driver, those were different times folks.  Also there was the fact you could sneak a few people in inside your trunk. (Although our Plymouth Duster had a fold down back seat that made it easy to get people out without having to go out and open the trunk.) And of course there was the privacy. Or the illusion of it anyway. You could do things in your car you would never think of doing at a walk in theater. (Especially if you had tinted windows.) It was FUN going to a drive in. Sure sometimes it would rain and they would cancel the show. (If it rained hard enough.) Although if the rain was light, the show would go on. Sometimes the speaker you picked didn't work and you had to move from spot to spot until you found one that worked. We remember the Marquette drive in theater (or was it called the Negaunee Drive in Theater.) switched over to AM transmission not long before they closed, so you would just tune your radio to the stations broadcast frequency and enjoy. (We don't remember what the station number was though, does anybody else?) We also remember having an old style window speaker lying around, as we had accidentally driven off and left it in our window. (How often did that happen, we wonder?)  There used to be a television show with a guy named Joe Bob Briggs, his closing quote used to be "The Drive in will never die!" which we sort of hope is true. Joe Bob has a website Joe Bob Briggs, drive in move critic. But he doesn't list drive in movie theaters anymore. And his stuff has gone decidedly political. Such a waste. (Yes we understand we also get political from time to time. But we try not to let it override our purposes for this blog. Whatever they are.) Anyway we thought we would wax nostalgic for a bit, and that is what we have done. We hope it didn't cause any of you to nod off and frighten yourself by snoring yourself awake. That's about it for today, ciao for now.