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chargervert
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We had onehere that used to show *** movies, you haven't lived until you've seen a 40 foot wide vajayjay!
Slap Stick
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Yeah, we had one that showed X rated movies. People complained so they put up huge plastic curtains around the lot.
Didn't last too long.
It, too became a junk yard.
http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/8632
Didn't last too long.
It, too became a junk yard.
http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/8632
Roadcuda
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I grew up at a drive-in as my mother was an assistant manager and head cashier at one just south of Hartford, CT. She worked there for close to 50 years and we were there at least once just about every week. It was always a busy place. I still remember when The Green Berets came out in '69 which of course was at the height of the war. For the two weeks the movie played they averaged about 500 cars a week night and after jamming in almost 850 on the weekend they would have to turn away a few hundred cars. And there were many weekends over the years where it was almost as busy. By the time the 80's rolled around it started slowing down and it finally closed, IIRC in 95 or 96.
Yeah for us oldsters, drive in theaters were part of our era when our muscle cars were our daily drivers. Vacuum the car and put an x-mas tree air freshener in it before the date to the drive in. On a good night ya didn't really see a whole lot of the movie anyway!
chargervert
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No one complained about the one here,the kids in that neighborhood got one hell of an education! I think the 3D DP was more than the veiwers could handle! Lol
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chargervert
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The Rustic Drive in is in Rhode Island. It is the one that used to show **** movies up until the early 80s.
Around early 70's they closed down this drive in and turned it into a landfill. Inside this big mountain are hemi's, 440's, 383's, 340's and more car parts from the Chrysler plant than you could ever imagine!!
chargervert
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You need a Radio Shack metal detector and a shovel! Now get to it boy!
It was done for years till engines started showing up that had been wrote off the books. The next step was guards would go out with the load and watch them burying them. They still should up, so the blocks and heads were beat with a hammer till the blocks were broke and heads unusable. Back then no one needed the internals, they needed the whole thing. Today would be a different story. At the end of a production year, all the year before parts were not used on the coming up year. I could go on with stories that no one would ever believe and those that did would have tears in their eyes.
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Didn't any foundry melt down scrap engine parts back then?
There weren't hundreds, just a few dozen of each. They would receive what they thought they would need, off, due to production issues. Cheaper to throw out verses shipping costs. I know, some of it made no sense.
Slap Stick
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The I-44 drive in located in Valley Park, MO.
It opened in 72 and closed in 84.
There was already a landfill next door which expanded to the theater site.
Since it was located between the Meramec River and the RR tracks fog would roll in and block the screen.
The screen stood for another 20 years.
It was a small theater, held about 200 cars.
My dad started at Chrysler in November 65, the guard started about then also and both told me the story in 86. Both were hired to work at plant two , which didn't open till 66. The front plant opened in 59. The engines came out of the front plant, plant one, so that landfill was there, I'm guessing then since at least 65. I know one thing for sure, those engines are in that land fill. You're right, I graduated from high school in 1974 and I went to that drive in till the year following high school , obviously 1975. I moved after that and can't remember it closing in 84. I never came back till I started at Chrysler in 1986. You made me sit and think about it and you are right. Now that you have me thinking of **** I can't remember anymore, was that drive in located in Valley Park or Peerless Park........... Peerless park ran from the Meramec river to Highway 44.
Lets Roll
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Last drive in I was at was Mustang in St Pete FL and Pet Sematary was playing late 80's. She had a new Hyundai we did it but it wasn't easy! ha ha. I was smuggled in another drive in the trunk of a 72 charger early 80's. The other kid in there we hated each other and started fighting cause they couldn't let us out right away. ha ha Nothing like fighting in a trunk.
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Ulli, I think youre right on Peerless Park.
I don't remember which plant my brother worked in, but he started there around 69-70.
Never knew engines were produced there.
I don't remember which plant my brother worked in, but he started there around 69-70.
Never knew engines were produced there.
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They weren't produced there. They ordered needed parts including engines. If they had leftovers due to production issues and line stoppages, most of the time if it wasn't a ton of them, they were trashed.
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