Carload.com has learned that the Apache Drive-In of Globe AZ will reopen next Friday, May 24, for its final season. Despite its forlorn appearance just a few weeks earlier, the Apache will continue to show movies for one more year; it won’t upgrade to digital projection. Taking a step back, … Continue reading
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Outside food: feature or menace?
I was doing my usual web prowl, searching for fun stuff and news to share here. I stumbled on the Blue Starlite Mini Urban Drive-In (Austin TX), and first of all, I’m unclear whether it “counts” as a real drive-in. As I mentioned a while ago, there are lots of … Continue reading
You should read my road trip report
I’m back from a weekend drive-in theater road trip, and the blog post I wrote about it is too big for a blog post. I gave the report its own page here on Carload, so if you want to find out what the active drive-ins of Arizona and New Mexico … Continue reading
Here’s the opposite of a coffee-table book
Just a few weeks ago, I got excited about a story I found about Alabama’s drive-ins. Not only was it a great round-up of the current status of the drive-ins of that state, it also made mention of a good book, Drive-in Theaters: A History from Their Inception in 1933 … Continue reading
The story behind THE classic drive-in photo
Take a look at the 200-pixel photo thumbnail I’ve embedded here. Look familiar? That might be because it’s been used as a “generic” drive-in photo for several theater sites, including one in India, and I just spotted it in an otherwise well-researched book, Drive-in Theaters by Kerry Segrave. (I’ll post a … Continue reading
Over 100 drive-ins sign with Cinedigm
Here’s a press release that was issued today by Cinedigm. Despite a few phone calls, I haven’t been able to determine just how significant this positive-sounding program is. A guy at Bloomberg News sure bought in to it though. Let’s hope this news is as good as it looks. Los … Continue reading
Daylight Saving Time hates drive-ins
I hate Daylight Saving Time – that’s a singular “Saving”, the correct way to write it. I don’t like tweaking all my clocks twice a year. I don’t like losing an hour of sleep in the spring. And I don’t like what it does to drive-ins. DST was never kind … Continue reading
Please add your photos to our Flickr pool
Carload.com, America’s finest drive-in news source, has started its own Flickr pool to collect great (and just okay) photos of drive-ins. To get things started, I’ve added a few pictures of my own, such as this shot of the old Valley Drive-In in Fort Morgan, Colorado. If you’ve got some … Continue reading
MST3K alum predicted digital age 11 years ago
One of the books I’m reading is A Year at the Movies by Kevin Murphy, who played Tom Servo on Mystery Science Theater 3000. In 2001, Murphy decided to watch at least one movie per day in a wide variety of settings, then write a weekly column about it. The … Continue reading
What will become of film?
I suppose that it’s natural to shape every bit of news to find the parts that affect our hobbies or business. In every report of theaters needing to upgrade their projection systems to digital, the main focus has been finding the money, or occasionally how the new system looks in … Continue reading