Our beloved Spud Drive In is up for sale again. It changed hands a few years back from the original owners who started it in 1953. Unfortunately, technology is wreaking havoc on these old theaters since the new movies won’t play on old film projectors and a digital projector costs $65,000, and the Spud only charge a few bucks per carload.
It appears they have a couple of fundraising movies coming up shortly, to augment their t-shirt sales. I wish them the best but I must admit that my use of the word beloved applies to the folks in the valley, not me. I haven’t been there in years…
SlideShow (Save The Spud)
Drive inns where so enjoyable! Pop your corn, ice chest full of sodas, bag full of candy bars. Car full of friends or family or both, blanket for the ground Oh how I miss them. $6 per car load. Hot dogs or hamburgers or pizza were the only things from the concession stand, and of course, the bathroom.
I remember the first movie my family went to see at a drive in. It was Star Wars… I might have gone to earlier movies, but I don’t remember them. Going now is not the same. Everyone who starts their car to warm it up turns on their headlights. Then you have those people who do not know to keep their feet off the brake. The brake lights and headlights drive me crazy now…
Other then that, I love the Spud!