Some things that kids will never understand....

[KNS]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

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We even used to pick up bottles, gather the whole $25 cents for the Saturday matinee at the movie theater. A second quarter was for candy and a coke. The matinee had a cartoon or two, the newsreel, a serial that continued last weeks serial, then the previews, and then the movie. We rode our bikes to the movie theater, parked out unlocked bikes outside the theater, and road home after the light came up. All with no parents hovering around.

Theater owners talk about declining interest in people going to the movies. Streaming has something to do with it but the movie going experience is pretty bad these days. Now we're forced to sit through a bunch of ads before the trailers and feature - for an exorbitant price.

I'm glad I grew when I did for many of the reasons mentioned in this thread. I'd hate to be kid now - for lots of different reasons.

[stevej37]

^^^ I wish they would go back to posting the starting times to when they actually did start.
Prob will never happen.

[LEAKYSEALS951]

^ The movie experience has waned. Too darned expensive, and not as special anymore.

In the 70's-80's matinees were a good way to pass the time. Even rarer-
Drive in movie theaters.

The first movie I ever saw was the "Poseiden adventure" in 1972. I was... 2.
Dad took the 66 911. I fit very fine in the back.

It was a drive in and I remember it well. Specifically playing out front the screen before the movie started.

Perhaps another thing young kids won't experience- Ernest Borgnine.

Here's ours out in the mountains. We need to support it, but it's about an hour drive each way.

[Evans, Marv]

^^^^^^ Wow! The days of drive ins is long past, but I wonder if it would be a safe experience now days. The first movie I remember was at a drive in. It was the Disney animated movie of Bambi we watched from the back seat of our parents' car.

[stevej37]

There are a few diff drive-in movies still going in my area....in the summer.

Gives the kids a chance to talk and what-not....that they can't do in a theater.

[mjohnson]

I love the rotary phone reference - as I also love the "reaction" vids with kids that have never seen one.

As a nearly 49yo father I have almost gained permission to lecture on random and unimportant things - but even people my age don't know the "core" of the original area codes. It was based on how important the place was and how long it took to dial on a rotary. NYC - 212 (fastest given the restrictions of the format). Albuquerque - 505 (not so fast)...

And on the topic of phones, kids today won't ever keep a dime or quarter in their shoe to call home.

[Baz]

Grew up in Norfolk - until 10th grade when we re-located to Florida.

In Norfolk, the Norfolk Drive-In was right across the road (Va. Bch. Blvd.) from our neighborhood (Fairlawn Estates) and we could see much of the screen from our bicycles outside the side fence. Came in handy for those R-rated movies....lol.

I do remember going there with the family on numerous occasions including seeing "The Green Berets" with John Wayne when it first came out and my Dad was still alive....

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Baz

Grew up in Norfolk - until 10th grade when we re-located to Florida.

In Norfolk, the Norfolk Drive-In was right across the road (Va. Bch. Blvd.) from our neighborhood (Fairlawn Estates) and we could see much of the screen from our bicycles outside the side fence. Came in handy for those R-rated movies....lol.

I do remember going there with the family on numerous occasions including seeing "The Green Berets" with John Wayne when it first came out and my Dad was still alive....

At our household, we would get home from school, and the neighborhood boys would meet up and go off playing on bikes. I had to be home at 6:30 for dinner, then gone until the street lights came on. I was pretty good at walking in the door as the street light came on, not before.

[HobieMarty]

We used to have snacks delivered to our house by Charles Chips.

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[devodave]

Originally Posted by Baz

Grew up in Norfolk - until 10th grade when we re-located to Florida.

In Norfolk, the Norfolk Drive-In was right across the road (Va. Bch. Blvd.) from our neighborhood (Fairlawn Estates) and we could see much of the screen from our bicycles outside the side fence. Came in handy for those R-rated movies....lol.

I do remember going there with the family on numerous occasions including seeing "The Green Berets" with John Wayne when it first came out and my Dad was still alive....

Baz, I grew up in Portsmouth, so I do remember some of the same things, even though I guess I'm a bit younger than you (62). I remember seeing Walt Disney's Fantasia at what seemed like a humongous modern movie theater over near Pembroke area.
Used to stay out until we heard the 9 o'clock gun. That was from the Marine Barracks at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard.

[red 928]

[porsche tech]

Corresponding by mail as I had to with my wife (then girlfriend) when I was overseas in the Army.

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by porsche tech

Corresponding by mail as I had to with my wife (then girlfriend) when I was overseas in the Army.

40 cents and they still haven't delivered or returned it !

[creaturecat]

the glint of 50 cell phones in the foreground at the movie theatre? that ended the theatre experience for me.
the stink of the fake cheese nachos didn't help, either.

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by creaturecat

the glint of 50 cell phones in the foreground at the movie theatre? that ended the theatre experience for me. ....

^^^^ This... but I never was one to go to movies, but was a huge live music fan.

BIC lighters held high were OK .... and useful

[pavulon]

[Rusty Heap]

Lite Brite was what 4-5 pixels per inch?

MOM, we're out of construction paper!

[911_Dude]

Living in an age when "photos dont lie" was a reality.

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by creaturecat

the glint of 50 cell phones in the foreground at the movie theatre? that ended the theatre experience for me.
the stink of the fake cheese nachos didn't help, either.

I haven't had the pleasure. Thanks for bringing this up.

I'm so far behind on movies that I can probably watch many Oscar winning movies at this point for free with commercials.

And have real cheese.

[stevej37]

The 10 cent allowance that was given by Dad for doing a weeks worth of chores.