It’s Day 146 of my virtual Drive-In-a-Day Odyssey. In the middle of a week of lengthy drives, the hour and a half it took to get from Wolseley SK to the Prairie Dog Drive In in Carlyle felt like nothing. The Prairie Dog opened in 1981 as Ken Par Cinema Cinema, built by husband and wife team, Evans and Mabel Parobec…
It’s Day 145 of my virtual Drive-In-a-Day Odyssey. I don’t have many long drives left on my schedule, but this was one of them. It took almost seven hours of driving to travel from the far-north Big Island Drive In Theater near Flin Flon MB to the Twilite Drive In Theatre, just west of Wolseley SK. The Twilite was the…
It’s Day 144 of my virtual Drive-In-a-Day Odyssey. Time for another crazy-long drive, seven and a half hours from Lumsden SK up north and just barely across the province border to the Big Island Drive In Theater a few kilometers south of Flin Flon MB. The Big Island is the northernmost active drive-in. (I’ll leave the question of…
It’s Day 143 of my virtual Drive-In-a-Day Odyssey. Driving from Kyle SK, it only took about three hours to reach Lumsden, current home of the Moonlight Movies Drive-In Theater. That was a different location that I had planned for when I drew up this trip last fall. Here’s a question I’ve explored before: What is a drive-in movie…
It’s Day 142 of my virtual Drive-In-a-Day Odyssey. I returned to Canada, driving almost seven hours (not counting the time waiting to cross at the border) almost due north from Billings MT to the Clearwater Drive-In Theater north of Kyle SK. According to a YouTube video by Craig Baird, the Clearwater, named for nearby Clearwater Lake, opened in 1957. The original…
It’s Day 136 of my virtual Drive-In-a-Day Odyssey. After my longest drive of the year, to the Park Drive-In Theatre in remote Prince George BC, it was time to drive back. The Starlight Drive-In Theatre south of Enderby made for a shorter drive, but only slightly; it still took seven and a half hours to cover 662 km. The Starlight claims to…
It’s Day 135 of my virtual Drive-In-a-Day Odyssey. When I drew up this trip, I knew this day was coming. The Park Drive-In Theatre in Prince George BC is at the 54th parallel, making it the second-most northerly drive-in. (Only the Big Island Drive In Theater in Manitoba is farther north.) More significantly, the Park is the most remote drive-in. My…