Anybody know where there are still old-fashioned drive-in movie theaters? The kind with the drive-up speakers you hook on your window and walk out to the food concession. My kids don't know what they are so we thought it would be fun to take them to one. Only problem is, most of them have turned into flea markets. We came across one outside of Charlotte, NC a couple of years ago but the movie playing that night wasn't family oriented. Are there any others still in existence?

There are still about half a dozen around the Twin Cities area and they are thriving--long lines of cars piled up on weekends. Mostly show action/thrillers and you see 3 movies for about $7 a car. It is kind of cool to go, though. Only, the speakers in the window are a memory, as now the sound is piped through your car radio.

The Bright Leaf off US 52 in Mt. Airy, NC shows family oriented films. It is where the smokers who can't last two hours in a theatre go. We like it because the dogs can come with us and we can park well away from the smokers.

http://www.driveinmovie.com/mainmenu.htm

Garrett, TX has one called Galaxy Drive-In.

Cuba, Missouri - a VERY small town, on I-44, about halfway between St. Louis and Springfield Missouri

There is still one in Wellfleet, Mass (end of Cape Cod). I think they got rid of the speakers and now you listen on FM radio in car. Most summers mosquitoes will kill you before the second movie starts.

offlady, there is still a drive-in in Maryville, Tennessee. We go to the Smokies often and I always think it would be cool to stop and see a drive in movie!

A related story... I grew up in the drive in era.
A few weeks ago my daughter's car was broke into and her stereo/CD's stolen.
Since the people who stole it probably live in apts behind the Starbucks she works at, we did not want to invest in another attractive stereo just to have them steal it again.
So, we put her old OE FM receiver back in the car. She has an iPod and found a gizmo that would transmit the music on an FM frequency.
The kids were just going on and on about how cool this is and how awesome technology was... then it occurred to me that this new technology was just about the same that they used in the 70's at the drive ins!
It was just sort of funny as I stood there trying to figure this thing out...

There is a drive-in in Milford, NH. It shows first rate movies on two screens. I have so many drive-in memories that time doesn't even allow me to recount them here. Suffice it to say that I never had a bad time at a drive-in.

Lots of drive-ins in Florida. At least two in Tampa/St. Pete. All use radio tune-in.

I know of one in Kenosha, Wisconsin and one in Door County, Wisconsin.

We have at least four operating in the NE Tenn / SwVA area that I know of: Bristol, Tenn., Elizabethton, Tenn., Norton, Va., and Abingdon, Va. Last time I was at the Elizabethton theater they had great prices at the snack bar. I haven't been there in a couple years. www.gotricities.com/movies for address info on those drive-ins.

There is one in Everett, WA (north of Seattle about 20 minutes), and we have one SW of Portland, OR in Newberg(about 20 minutes from Portland).

We went to the Newberg one a few times this summer and it was fun. The speakers are long gone, but you use your car radio. The speaker posts are still in place though.

Gibson City, IL (neary Bloomington). It's very old-fashioned - I can imagine it looks about the same as it did in 1960. Very popular in the summer. People even go early with their little BBQs and cook out while waiting for the movie to start.

Well, if you found one in Charlotte, NC you must be close or at least visit close to Columbia, SC. There's a drive-in at Monetta, SC called Big Mo. It's way down close to the Georgia state line - about an hour from Columbia. They show 1st run movies and except for hearing through the radio, which I like better anyway, it's the same as when I was a kid. On a hot summer evening there's nothing better, imo, than sitting in a lawn chair at the drive-in sipping on a snow cone. Oh, I can hardly wait for summer!

iceeu2 & xrae: My in-laws are in NE Tenn--Rogersville, to be exact, just outside of Morristown. Looks like Bristol would be the closest from there. Do you know how long the drive is between there and Bristol?
Tandoori_Girl: Do you know any in the Orlando area? We'll be there for a convention this summer.

There is on in Santa Cruz, CA and one in San Jose as well. On the weekends thaty have flea markets during the day and then play movies at night.

Sky-Vue in Lamesa, Texas -- if you go, be sure and eat one of their signature "chihuahua" sandwiches -- hard to describe, but fantastic. (Not made of dog, as far as I know... They actually have a separate line for people who are just driving in to get take out food.

No, I don't. But a check in the phone book would probably bring one up if there was. More than likely you'd find one where there was less re-development (tearing down old structures to put in marketable real estate). In outlying cities, not in Orlando where the land is not so valuable.