OK, before you comment on how you popped 3 or 4 (or more) kids in the trunk and got free admission to your local drive in theater, let me remind you that every time the subject of the now nearly extinct Drive Ins comes up, some one in the group is sure to re-tell that tired old legendary but true story. But what fun it was to go to the drive in! Especially with that special someone who didn't mind sitting close and sharing.......uhh, her popcorn! How did we ever survive with that tinny speaker that hung on our car door? -
Anonymous said... - If my memory serves, two thing happened that made survival difficult for one drive in. The Dix Drive In opened just about the same time as did the Bordentown Dump. As a kid I remember my sister checking the weather if her husband wanted to go to the Dix. I started driving in the mid 60's and being from North Trenton it was a coin toss between the Ewing or Lawrence but I think in the long run the Lawrence was better. That Everly Brothers song "Wake Up Little Susie" will always have a bit of special meaning for me. SkipTom Glover The Lawrence" was our drive in of choice back before U.S.1 became the traveler's nightmare.
Gary Lippincott said...- The Trenton Drive-In, Glenn Munson would borrow his brother Gerry's Chevrolet Corvair (trunk in the front)we could only stuff two in there. I know guys that used to go in the trunk on $1.00-a-carload night, just to do it.
Mack said...- I did a recent post on my Blog with a list of 6 local drive-ins in 1964. I noted they were showing movies in december. That seems kind of rough with our weather even with possible action going on unrelated to the movie :)
If my memory serves, two thing happened that made survival difficult for one drive in. The Dix Drive In opened just about the same time as did the Bordentown Dump. As a kid I remember my sister checking the weather if her husband wanted to go to the Dix.
ReplyDeleteI started driving in the mid 60's and being from North Trenton it was a coin toss between the Ewing or Lawrence but I think in the long run the Lawrence was better. That Everly Brothers song "Wake Up Little Susie" will always have a bit of special meaning for me.
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The Trenton Drive-In, Glenn Munson would borrow his brother Gerry's Chevrolet Corvair (trunk in the front)we could only stuff two in there. I know guys that used to go in the trunk on $1.00-a-carload night, just to do it.
ReplyDeleteI did a recent post on my Blog with a list of 6 local drive-ins in 1964. I noted they were showing movies in december. That seems kind of rough with our weather even with possible action going on unrelated to the movie :)
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