The Drive-In... Do you still go?

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My two most popular Drive-In's were Winnetka & Hi-Way 39. I wish I could remember the names & locations of the others, but those two pop into my mind most. One, I believe, was in Van Nuys. Lotsa movies there, too!

As a little kid, I LOVED when My Mom would take my little brother & I to the Drive-In! Those were just the most fun times together. She would dress us in our jammies, bring lots of blankets, pop a huge ol' tub of popcorn at home, and sometimes? We would stop at Pup n' Taco ( How I miss thee!) for grape slushies. I remember we would get so excited for the Chilly Willy or Woody Woodpecker cartoons that kicked off each movie! I remember going to see Grease & Star Wars at the Drive-In.

As I got older....

I remember going to the Hi-Way 39 Drive-In! I was forever in Orange County at the time, since my boyfriend & I both worked at Disneyland- me working on Main Street, and he rowing on the Canoes. We went to the Drive-in a whole bunch, but rarely, um, saw the entire movie. I remember he once left the big metal audio box clipped to my car window, then forgot to unnattach it, drove off, and not only bent the entire pole flat, but the metal box came flying in at ME. Of course, I kept it as a souvenier of our young & super dorky love.

After the Northridge Earthquakes, any Valley girl or guy can attest to the squillions of construction sites set up EVERYWHERE. My brother and his crew, which consisted of my friends, too, would head off to the Winnetka Drive-in. My brother (Smee) would hit up a construction site, grab a piece of plywood, stick it in his pick-up truck, and then lay it across the exit spikes so that the whole valley could enter the Drive-In that night for free. Nice.

And I'll never forget the time we stuck my poor girlfriend Sherri in the trunk. What the flock were we thinking?? Nobody could pony up a ticket price? And she actually INSISTED on climbing in! I believe we tried even to stop her. Double nice.

Aww, memories!