Today on the internet someone placed a photo of an old drive in movie theater with cars lined in a row next to those old speakers one would hook onto a window and roll up....
Instantly I recalled the very first movie I ever saw at a drive in as a 5 year old impressionable little boy.
My first movie drive in movie was at the old Dai Roy Drive in North of Mio, Michigan....and the movie my father took me and my brothers to was something that stayed with me for life....A movie meant to frighten..let me take that back....meant to terrify even adults.....
The year was 1959 and I believe it was a chilly late or early autumn night when my Dad took us for a ride to see........HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL staring Vincent Price!
I still get the "willies" thinking of what I saw that night from the back seat ...which really wasn't much after the first blood curdling scream came from the speaker on the window....
My hands immediately went to my face covering my eyes.....peeking out between my fingers...it was too much to watch full eyed!
I found myself slipping back behind the front seat into the back of the 57 Chevy Belair Dad affectionately called "Betsy".
I felt safe in Betsy's back seat covered with a woolen blanket mom packed for this "guys" night out at the movies...
I can't remember much about the actual plot of "House On Haunted Hill"...I simply remember snippets of hanging corpses,skeletons and lots of screaming......
Screaming I fell asleep to in the back seat of Betsy..
When I first saw the image of the Drive In earlier today...I thought to myself why not google the movie and see if I truly remember the parts I saw accurately!
Low and behold....this is what I found....
Here's the actual Dai Roy Drive in Concession stand promotional movie played ten minutes before every Movie AND the actual Movie that has stuck in my brain from the age of 5 til now...
Can you imagine a young child watching the dancing hot dog prance across the screen happy as could be...thinking what a wonderful night it was going to be....and then......O.M.G!
Now, sometime soon, I will watch the movie all the way through HERE on my computer screen in the middle of the day in the year 2014. A mere 55 years later!
I wonder if I'll cover my eyes again........If I do...it'll be for nostalgia sake only! Ya right!
Come on, my friend, join me....it's only 10 minutes to Show time! :-)
Now On With The Show.....
