Transit Drive-In open for another season

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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.

Drive Invaders hit Atlanta

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There’s a fun, long blog entry in the Saporta Report about a group of drive-in enthusiasts in Atlanta. Last week, a group calling themselves Drive Invaders “gathered to watch ‘G.I. Joe: Retaliation’ at the Starlight Six Drive-In, the last outdoor movie theater in metro Atlanta. Instead of a playground, (ringleader Suellen) Germani and her grown-up movie companions each paid $7 to tailgate in the rain and watch the movie through wet windshields.”

The article explains in lengthy detail the beginnings of the group, including early missteps. “For the first two years we met year round and that was really stupid because it’s really cold in February,” Germani said.

For over a decade, this little band has made it a point to patronize the Starlight Six, partly with the goal of keeping it alive. The article is a lot more fun than I’ve made it sound, so I’ll stop typing so you can just go read it.

Here’s some video of the Skyline Drive-In

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I know I ran a note just a few weeks ago about the Skyline Drive-In of Shelton WA, but I saw that KING, Seattle’s news leader, ran a story about its progress raising money to finance the conversion to digital projection. There’s not a whole lot new about the story except that the Skyline has raised about $12,000 of the $40,000 needed for its Kickstarter campaign. Well, that and the fact that the Skyline has a Director of Marketing. I don’t know any other drive-ins that employ a marketing director. But I digress.

No, the reason I returned to the topic of the Skyline is the lovely video footage embedded here. It’s such a nice look at the projection room, and the Skyline’s old equipment, that I wish it lasted a little longer. For just a little more information, feel free to visit the KING site.