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National Drive-in Movie Day (or rather, Night)! Sadly, my beloved Point Drive-In (near Danville PA) is closing at the end of July.... (It had three screens until a storm destroyed their best screen in 2020...if you know the place, can you tell which screen it is?) (And does anyone know which movie this is?)

#1: Beep (Boop) on May 30, 2022

Run Lola Run?

You'd think that drive-ins would have made a comeback during the past couple of years. Our local one closed 30 years ago. The problem was it's several miles outside of any town, so no sewer nor city water (at that time) and codes changed, and the cinema at the mall had the latest releases. Just the building and the very battered screen remain, the property owners use the property for staging loading their cattle for market, and the building to store stuff.

There are too many movies that have someone running, or possibly dancing to guess at what's on that screen.

Hm. The person might be down on bended knee, holding a disk. A ring? Maybe a wedding proposal?

I've never been to a drive-in movie. When I was a kid growing up in NYC I thought they were all gone, closed long ago, but over the years since then I keep hearing about other drive-ins closing, so they must have been around for decades longer than I realized.

Valerie, you've never been to a drive-in? Oh you really missed out on fun times with the family. Sorry.

There's still some around.
PA may have the most surviving, including, Mahoning (boasts being the only all real film, not digital, theater, allows tent sleep-overs) and Becky's, which also offers pony rides....!

And the movie?

The Point had three screens and they were indeed positioned to be one of the few attractions open during COVID, then a freak storm destroyed their best screen, so they were down to two, and I'm not sure they both had digital projectors....
The owner was--is--such a nice guy, but he once told me, in a friendly chatty way, how every time his family seemed to clear the last hurdle to making the theatre easy retirement, some new hurdle would appear on the horizon, including the film distributors announcing they would no longer release movies on film for US market, so everyone had to buy digital projectors at $70000 a pop, even though they still made film prints for overseas markets....

The Point charges $8 per adult for two movies, usually new releases with maybe an old favorite as the second showing. Their food is actually pretty good for movie food!

Btw, it's Screen 3. You can tell by the angle of the projection lines.

As for what movie? I have no idea either....

Forrest Gump

The longest Yard? Denver lost a great drive-in location, now a bunch of ... wait for it ... apartments, right along a major through-town highway.

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