First DRIVE-IN Movie ever watched...

No kidding, i cant remember. I would guess Herbie the Love Bug

 

A Bruce Lee kung fu movie in 1974. Don't remember which one.

 

I can remember the first one in a theatre but for the life of me I cant remember any I watched at the drive ins.

 

The first movie I remember watching from a car at our local drive in was a western that had Randolph Scott in it...my folks were big into westerns at the time. I was about 6 or 7 at the time...somewhere about 1953. I also remember being baby sat by my uncle Keith and Aunt Becky and we went to the drive-in with me riding in the rumble seat of their baby blue Model A coupe along about the same time. The last time I was at a drive-in was about 1975 when we went to the last open night of a favorite drive in here in town. I dont remember the name of the movie. But last year, my wife and I drove up to Sherwood, Oregon...entered the car show there with our OT car (ok, hot rod vw convertible) , and later that evening, we discovered there was an active drive in about 10 miles down the road in Newberg. As we were staying with my daughter overnight, we decided to go to the drive-in, so wife and I took the convertible and daughter took her son and her girlfriend. It was a hoot, as we were blessed with a little bit of rain but I decided to leave the carson top on and I had just finished a set of removable plexiglass side windows luckily, which kept the rain outa the car. You know how crazy shit happens at the drive in sometimes...this was no exception. We park by 4 or 5 college age kids who had come in a tall 4X$ truck, which they parked backwards, and they were all sitting in the back facing the tailgate to watch the show...and were sitting on a hide-a-bed they brought to sit on. Then it started to rain...and they panicked and one of them decides to flip up the hide-abed and use it like a big umbrella. Well the back of the hideabed was up against the slider window and they couldnt hear the movie from the trucks stereo (the movie was broadcast on FM and you had to tune your radio to hear the audio of the film..., they had done away with the hanging speakers of yesteryear). So one of them gets out a crocidle dundee knife and just carves a huge hole in the hideabed back about where the slider glass opening was....VIOLA...SOUND!!!....such fun at the drive in....ONCE AGAIN!!!

 

I know I'm old, but can't believe I'm that much older than most of you! The first movie I saw at a drive in was 'Viva Las Vegas with Elvis and Ann Margaret. And I've been in love with Ann Margaret ever since!

 

Jaws - 1975 when I was 6. I wasn't supposed to watch, I was supposed to be sleeping...in the back of the van...

 

LOL! I also remember seeing 'Jaws' at the drive-in! It was with a bunch of buddy's from High School. We each had a pizza and a six-pack of soda for the double feature! Must have been around 17 years old ...

Dan Stevens
dba, Steelsmith

 

The first one I can remember was "Jack the Giant Killer" 1962 Boise, Idaho. Scared the poop out of me. I was 6 years old.
1959 Stude Lark Wagon

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Mine was a Disney movie " The absent minded Professor" it was in black and white starred Fred McMurry . He worked at a college and invented Flubber. Eddie Murphy made a remake of it a few years back. Oh yea we were in either a 56 or 58 ford station wagon.

 

I know I was going to them from about 1970 with my parents (we lived less than a 1/4-mile from the Concord Drive-In), but the one I really remember going to was with my dad and his friend Dan. We went in my dad's (and later my) 1964 Galaxie convertible. We saw Alien.

 

The one that stands out was in 1969. Mom and one of her friends tooks to the drive in. Barefoot in the Park which I beleive was the first nude shower scene. Didnt get to see the end.

 

"Shane" Alan Ladd and Jack Palance... 1953..top down in my Dad's 1949 Hudson convertible

 

My parents took us kids to the La Habra Drive-In regularly.
I think my first movie was this, but I was only 3 or 4, so I fell asleep in the middle...

 

That would have to be War of the Worlds in black and white an the aliens looked like a octopus. Maybe 55 or 6. Dad's 55 buick century 2 dr. If I could have, I wouda hid in the trunk.

 

not my first but maybe the best of all blazing saddles. still love watching that movie

 

My first and only one was a Rocky movie "The Eye Of The Tiger". They closed the drive in down before I got to go back.

 

Double feature... Mary Poppins and Bednobs and Broomsticks... Ok, wasn't that cool, but I did end up working there and must have seen Christine and most of the older Freddy Kruger movies at least 30 times.

 

Dirty Dingus Mcgee...A comedy western with Frank Sinatra, if you can believe that...about 1970 or so

 

I would say it was about 1952, it was a western in Color I remember some Civil War uniforms is all I remember about the movie but it was in Seattle in the winter time. I was setting in the back of the 1936 Buick and it was raining (but of course it was Seattle). The drive in employees, for a quarter would would rent you a visor for the window that was stuck on via suction cups and they also rented some kind of heater that attached to the window. The old Man opted for the visor so he didn't have to run the vacume wipers, and we brought blankets so, no heater. I did have to pea in a jar though because no body was going to take me out in the rain to the rest rooms. It was awesome seeing the big color screen as up to that point I hadn't seen a movie and TV was pretty much nonexistant, but the best part was being in the car seeing all of the other cars for this motor head even at the age of 5.

 

"JAWS" when I was about 7 or 8 years old and riding in the back seat of may father's Roman Red-on-red '62 Impala SS with a 4-Speed, Dual Quad, Positraction 409. My brother actually found the car rusted out in front of a body shop here in St. Louis about 10 years ago and I made a trip over just to see it. Was kinda sad to see it in that condition. My father actually bought that car at a yard sale when he innocently walked to the back side of the garage and there it sat, unused and un-wanted 'til he came along!

 

Before my generation... ):

 

HONDO....John Wayne - Starlight Drive-in, West Richland, WA...at the foot of "old Flattop"...1953? or so.

 

Bambi.... Now that ain't cool. It was near Mystic Conn, must have been 1960. But it was in Grandpa's brand new 1960 348 c.i. Impala...That's cool.

 

License To Drive. 66 Park-In theater in St. Louis. In my dads '57 chevy.

 

The Alamo is the first one I remember. South Side Drive-In in Fort Worth

 

was it at the circle drive in????

 

Jaws!
the first one.at the drivein in Bridgeport,Ct

 

Old Yeller Summer 1958..

 

I think it was Batman in 1966

 

Gremlins