Drive-In Ads: Jaws

JAWS (1975) Original Drive-In Theater Newspaper Ad twitpic.com/c3gyvl

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Drive-In Ads: Westworld

WESTWORLD (1973) Original Drive-In Theater Newspaper Ad twitpic.com/c61viz

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Special Events: Your Continued Patronage is Appreciated

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Keep 3/14 open! We are hosting a special screening of #SELENA for the @sdlatinofilm fest! #pbdrivein #sandiego #movielovers
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Drive-in Theater Looks to Put Down Roots

From KWQC.com, a story of a drive-in theater struggling to come to life:

Many in the QCA have been waiting years for another Drive-In movie theater. In 2008, plans were made for a drive in theater to open up in Davenport but that never happened. Now, those owners are working to bring the big screen to Blue Grass, IA.

Owners want to put in the West end of Blue Grass, just past the fire department on Mayne Street. Randy Lorenz and his wife have 9 acres of land that they're hoping to bring the big screen too. Currently, the land is empty but by spring the owners of this property say it's not going to look like that at all.  That's if anything goes as planned.

Drive-in Movie Theaters Popular Again

Retro Cars of the Atomic-Space Age: The--What, Mobile!?

When the climes begin to succumb to the arrival of spring, as the new drive-in theater season ramps up across the nation, consider loading up your snacks and kids into the following vehicles for your evening jaunt to the big screen.

The Ford Futura

If this looks like the Batmobile from the 1960s TV series...you're not mistaken. But it's not the Batmobile. This 1950s sci-fi looking beast is a futuristic concept car from Lincoln, a division of the Ford Motor Company and, as you can quite and plainly see, was not mass produced. What this car did was drum up a good deal of attention for Lincoln and Ford, and was featured prominently in 1959's It Started with a Kiss starring Glenn Ford and Debbie Reynolds. 

Remco Movieland Drive-in Theater

It's not a real drive-in theater, but a product of the Remco toy company. Founded in the 1940s, Remco got the drop on modern toys for a postwar baby booming generation. In 1959, it capitalized on the drive-in theater craze with the Movieland Drive-In Theater, one of several car-airplane-gun related toys it produced, like Mr. Kelly's Automatic Car Wash and The Flying Fox.


According to the Wikipedia site for Remco, the Movieland Drive-In Theater "consisted of cars, a drive in board with car spaces, a place to list "Featured Movies" along with blue and white double-bill cards that slid into the marquee; the "movie" was a film strip that projected by a battery operated light bulb onto a 4"x6" screen that attached to the drive in. Titles included Heckle and Jeckle, Have Gun Will Travel, Mighty Mouse, Farmer Al Falfa."

To see it in action, watch the product's original 1959 television commercial, starring the very young Patty Duke:



If you're drooling to get your hands on a vintage edition of this toy, try this auction site, complete with pictures. Remember always...buyer beware.