The drive-in started at six, when Dad said we were going and the house turned into a logistics operation.
We Went in Our Pajamas and Nobody Thought It Was Strange |
A speaker hooked to the window, a blanket in the back seat, and a second feature nobody in the family ever saw the end of. |
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The drive-in did not start when the movie started. It started around six, when my father came in from work and said we were going, and the house turned into a small logistics operation. |
My mother made popcorn on the stove in the big pot with the scorched bottom and dumped it into a paper grocery bag, because buying popcorn at the concession stand was for people with money to burn. There was a thermos. There was a stack of blankets that lived in the hall closet for exactly this purpose and smelled like the hall closet. And there was the pajama rule, which was not a rule anybody announced, just a thing that happened: you got changed before you left, because everybody understood how the evening was going to end. |
Then we drove out to the edge of town while it was still light, and got in the line of cars, and paid by the carload, which is why my cousin rode in the trunk exactly once and talked about it for thirty years. Getting the spot was my father's event. Not too close to the screen, because you would spend two hours looking up. Not too far back. Not behind a station wagon, and definitely not behind anybody who might put a kid on the roof. |
Then the speaker. That gray metal box on a cord, hanging off a post, that you hauled in through the window and hooked onto the glass. It sounded terrible. It sounded like a man talking through a tin can in a rainstorm. Half of them buzzed and a fair number did not work at all. Every drive-in in America had a sign about not driving off with the speaker still attached, and every drive-in in America had somebody do it about once a week. While it was still dusk, the kids ran. The playground was right down at the front, under the screen, and forty kids you did not know played together for forty-five minutes with no introduction of any kind. You came back to the car when the lights dimmed and the dancing hot dogs came on, and the second feature was already |
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