![]() ![]() Perhaps it's the speaker itself, programmed by parents to subliminally hypnotize their children. Maybe it's the cold evening air that enters the car when a window is cracked to hold a speaker. There is something about drive-in theaters that puts children to sleep. I can't recall ever seeing the ending of that film. This system is much the reason I've seen "Old Yeller" so many times. ![]() It helped in gaining my mother's approval if the film had Walt Disney's name before the title. "G" meant that my mother could get out of the car and use the rest room without being embarrassed if she ran into a neighbor. "G" meant it was "good" enough for my mother. Each movie actually was hand-picked, with a heavy leaning – long before a rating system was developed - toward "G" movies. I make it sound too much like the nature of the movies was a surprise to my parents. Pillows and blankets were stacked in the storage area of the station wagon, signs that at least some of the children in the vehicle would fail in their attempts at seeing the end of whatever picture happened to be playing that particular night. We carried food with us ‹ in a picnic basket during summers before coolers were common. ![]() You're sort of an adult if your eyes still are open past 9:30.Īt the urging of their offspring, two or three times a season my parents would pack up the brood in the family's Plymouth station wagon and head off to the Parkway Drive-In Theater in Canandaigua, N.Y. The youngest kids among us, however, just wanted an excuse to stay awake after darkness fell late at night in the summertime. Maybe they merely intended to meet some future loved one in the concession stand, and separate him or her from the pack, so they could talk and toe the concrete or dirt until a relationship developed. Perhaps they envisioned kissy-face clenches that fogged the windows. Oh, teenagers and other young lovers - of movies, maybe - had their own reasons for going to drive-ins in my day. Man invented drive-in movies so kids could stay up past bedtime. ![]()
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