1961 was a big year for my hometown; that was the year that the town's first and only drive-in opened. (I'm talking drive-in theaters [remember them?], not drive-in restaurants.) The first evening the drive-in was opened, teenagers flooded to the place, drawn by the lure of something new. Being teenagers, they turned the volume control on each speaker up to deafening. The first feature shown back then happened to be a Japanese monster flick called Reptilicus. The monster Reptilicus had a loud, cawing cry. That evening, the cry could be heard clearly at my house, some two miles from the drive-in. I can remember hearing those cries and wishing I had been able to be there at the drive-in.
Enough nostalgia. Here's the flick, presented in eight parts:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmmy654s94s&feature=autoplay&list=PL1D3FB89559FBF7F7&playnext=2
Thanks Jerry. I love such stuff. We had a drive-in theatre in Bombay until the early 1980s and you could see the film playing at nights while commuting by the local suburban train a good distance away. The only thing that separated the trains and the drive-in was a protected swamp of mangroves. The drive-in was located in the northwest suburb of Bandra, the queen of suburbs as we call it.
ReplyDeleteAfter that opening night the sounds from the drive-in never reached my house. Drive-ins soon became a regular part of my high school life. There were four of them in my area, each showing different features, so my friends and I would be at the drive-in at least four times a week. Very little else to do in a small town.
DeleteOddly the first movie I saw at a drive-in was Cleopatra. We still have a couple of them around but it is really not a good way to see a movie unless those speakers are better.
ReplyDeleteYou went to a drive-in to see a movie? A strange concept.
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