Drive-in theater
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Search complete. 17 mentions across 7 episodes found for "Drive-in theater".
Oct 16, 2026
ScottHOST
My dad, mom loved the music, but I was too young to appreciate it.
ScottHOST
What's the GBU? What's the GBU? What am I missing here? I remember seeing the GBU at the Suffolk Downs Drive-In Theater.
ScottHOST
What am I missing? Why am I drawing a blank? This isn't good.
ScottHOST
I don't like this.
David HeathHOST
And we are going to be covering an interesting genre today.
David HeathHOST
We're going to be talking about drive-in movies, schlock movies maybe, fun movies that... maybe you watched as a teenager, maybe you haven't seen, but we're going to tell you about them.
David HeathHOST
And I have with me a guest, and I have asked him to put a list of 10 movies that he thinks that kind of represent what he's doing with his book.
David HeathHOST
Rich Melter, I'm glad to have you back on again.
Rich ShmelterGUEST
It's great to be back on.
Rich ShmelterGUEST
I look so forward to this show with you.
David HeathHOST
Yeah, and of course we talked, we're going to talk about these drive-in movies, you know, and talk about your book.
David HeathHOST
But if you people might remember a few months ago, we talked about Carol Landis and you have a couple of projects involving Carol Landis.
BeauHOST
We're going to talk about Digger later.
BeauHOST
We're going to do all the things like we do here on the Drive-In Speakerbox.
JakeHOST
Like
BeauHOST
we do.
Chick McGeeHOST
Mm-hmm.
Tom GriswoldHOST
Uh, coming up, we have a drive-in movie theater letters.
Josh ArnoldPANELIST
Nice.
Tom GriswoldHOST
We have a saxophone player letters.
SamHOST
Welcome to B&S Bump Movies.
SamHOST
You know, the Drive-In Super Monsterama is the 20th edition coming up the end of this week.
SamHOST
Friday, September 25th.
SamHOST
Saturday, September 26th.
SamHOST
Eight movies.
SamHOST
In two days, the Riverside Drive-In Theater, which is in Vandergrift, PA.
SamHOST
You can find the Drive-In Super Monsterama Drive-In Super Monsterama page on Facebook, as well as the Riverside Drive-In Theater, as well as going to www.riversidedrivein.com. Advanced tickets are only available online.
SamHOST
Admission is $15 per person each night.
TimHOST
And it took about five minutes for my mom to say... we're going let's go we're out of here
AndreaHOST
and you're like no well we used to do the oh my gosh i can't remember what it was called it's across the street from a cemetery in buffalo i I think it's called The Buffalo Drive-In, but there were three screens.
AndreaHOST
And it would always be funny because, yeah, on your screen is like you're watching Bambi and Mom Die and The Fire and, you know, the Happy Kids movie.
AndreaHOST
And then, you know, Herbie the Love Bug.
TimHOST
Keep your eyes over here.
TimHOST
Nice.
TimHOST
So the origin story of The Drive-In.
TimHOST
This is like 1932 to 1933, a guy named Richard Hollingshed of Camden, New Jersey.
speaker_8SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Because that thing weighs easily 25 to 30 pounds, and then the chain, it's heavy.
speaker_9SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Anybody been to King's Drive-In Theater, they remember the lights underneath the screen you used to go on while you were playing in the playground? They would flash the lights when it was time to go back to your car.
speaker_9SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So everybody knew that it was time to go find your mom and dad and hang out with them.
speaker_9SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Now, there was one of the original window speakers from 1949.