The Glens Falls (NY) Post-Star ran a very nice, very long article about the Glen Drive-In (Queensbury) and its efforts to recoup the money it spent for new digital projectors.

Unlike a lot of these local conversion articles, this one had lengthy quotes from John Vincent, president of the United Drive-In Theater Owners Association. “Film has been around for 100 years, and truth be told, it’s a very intense use of plastics,” Vincent said. “Each copy of a movie for a theater in 35 mm is about two miles of film. So, I’m actually quite surprised that it lasted 100 years, and particularly, I’m surprised it’s lasted the last 10 years.”

The Glen has also joined nine indoor theaters in the area for a general fundraiser to finance the digital conversion. The Andirondack North County Association and the Adirondack Film Society are launching the “Go Digital or Go Dark” campaign at Adirondack.org.

The Post-Star article has so much more inside it, and it includes five photos, including a cool projection of a digital test pattern. You really should go check it out!

WKBW, Buffalo NY’s news leader, reported last weekend that the Transit Drive-In of Lockport has opened for another season.

Really, that was about it. The text story is a count-the-mistakes affair, with little nits to pick that really bug me. How hard is it to learn that “it’s” only contains an apostrophe if it’s the contraction of “it is”? Why aren’t they teaching TV journalists that when speaking of two unequal whole numbers, one is “fewer” than the other, not “less”? But I digress.

Truth be told, I’m mainly glad that WKBW was kind enough to put its news report in a video format that I could embed here. Great drive-in photos are better than a thousand words, even when they’re all grammatically correct.

The Malta Drive-In marquee. Click here for the full story with more photos.

The Saratoga Springs (NY) Saratogian reports that a man in Malta NY proposed to his girlfriend using the marquee of the Malta Drive-In. Isn’t that sweet?

Chris Caro and Brandy Courneya had been “inseparable” for about a year, and on the evening of Dec. 22, he concocted an excuse for them to drive by the drive-in, which is owned by his brothers. Brandy, a night-shift worker, was a little sleepy and didn’t recognize at first why Chris stopped. When he gestured to the sign, she saw the words, “Brandy I love you / Will you marry me”. She said yes, and the two plan to marry this fall.

Tom Caro, one of the drive-in owners, said the marquee was also used by friends 20 years ago to congratulate Tom on his marriage. For more great photos and more details on the story, go read the full article in the Saratogian.