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Please add your photos to our Flickr pool

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old Valley Drive-In in Fort Morgan, Colorado

photo by Neon Michael

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 drive-in photos, please join the Carload group and share them with the rest of Carload’s readers. If we use your photo to illustrate a story, we’ll give you credit and link back to your photo’s Flickr page, as demonstrated by the caption under this Valley photo. You retain all your rights to your photos; you’d just be giving Carload permission to use them here.

Please consider adding your drive-in experience to our collective celebration of all the great fun of drive-ins by uploading to the Carload group today. And thanks for visiting Carload.com.

Saco Drive-In plight featured on TV

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Inside the projection room at the Saco Drive-InThe News Leader of Auburn ME, WMTW, recently ran a story about the Saco Drive-In of Saco ME. We mentioned the Saco here at Carload a month ago, and there isn’t a lot of new information in this new report, but there’s some nice video of the Saco marquee and from inside its projection booth.

According to the report, “At least two other theaters in Maine, one in Boothbay (maybe the Harbor Theatre in Boothbay Harbor) and the other in Damrascotta (probably the Lincoln) are both open thanks to the public pitching in to buy the new projectors.” But those are both indoor theaters, so we don’t really follow them on Carload. Never mind.

I would have loved to embed the video, even with its preroll advertising, but the best I can do is show you a screen grab and suggest that you head to WMTW’s site to check it out for yourself.

Harvest Moon reaches its fundraising goal

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Harvest Moon Drive-In logoThe Paxton (IL) Record reports that the Harvest Moon Twin Drive-In (Gibson City) reached its fundraising goal of $165,000 and will reopen for a new season on March 29. We’ve been following this saga on Carload here and here.

Manager Ben Harroun said that he’s waiting to hear from his supplier to know when the new digital projection equipment will be installed. In addition, the money will be used to refurbish the marquee, snack bar, gift shop and restrooms, and the old-time carousel will be painted with a new canopy.

More than 800 individuals and companies donated to the fundraiser, and on Tuesday, a $10,000 donation from Neal Tire & Auto in Gibson City put them over the top. For more details, go check out that article.

Update: Pantagraph.com, apparently tied in with the Gibson City Courier, provides a few more details and a really nice photo of the Harvest Moon’s marquee.