I think most people tried to at least once go under the fence by the Wellever playground. A lot of folks just sat on the playground and watched the old "B" movies. The drive-in was always packed on the weekends as the entrance line of cars were sometimes backed up to Beech Daly. Cheapest date and motel around. A sack of Brays burgers and a couple of bottles of Boones Farm, $2 ticket price. What else did you need but a clean backseat. I started working there the year before I could even drive and it was a great job. Just had to lock up at night and knock on the misty windows of the cars that were either asleep or just into something that they hadn't finished. That was fun and adventurous. During the showing of the movies it was my job to sit in a car and watch the exit for anybody sneaking in. I never caught anybody so to speak. What did they expect for a $1.45 an hour? Ever wonder why a lot of people sat and hung out at the refreshment stand? People that sneaked in. Sure do miss the old drive-in movie picture shows. Johnny Yuhas.

Oh yes...I tried to explain to my daughter what a "Drive-in" movie was, and she laughed! I remember sneaking in a few times. One of my funniest memories was when there was a car load of us and about four people in the trunk. We pulled all the way to the back and let them out. My mom was laughing so hard, she had taken my younger brothers to the movies and she saw us. We all had to hear the lecture on how dangerous it was to have people in the trunk and all the what if's; there was an accident...they all could have been killed etc.....Miss the old days.

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I remember Sharon Bokuniewicz sneaking me and Donna in there in the trunk. Only when she closed the trunk door I panicked yelling open this door, I'LL PAY!!!

Donna could of cared less. I felt like I had been locked in a casket or something.

The reality of it was you could walk in from the exit and nobody ever bothered you. My first job was at Cinderella Laundry mat in the summer of 73 and I got off at 10:00PM. I would walk in there and find my friends. But the hell with that locked in the trunk shit.

Before we ever moved to the Heights when very little we would always go to A&W across the street because it was cheaper to eat there than the Drive-In. I remember parents buying us slow-pokes or black-cows. Probably figured that should occupy our mouths for at least an hour. LOL

Also remember the Drive -In on Telegraph at W. Chicago. That one had a choo-choo-train. They turned that one into Korvette's.

When we lived on the East Side of Detroit we went to one on Gratiot and one on Harper.

We had fun when we were little. These kids now rent movies out of a vending machine. No wonder they're so screwed up. Spoiled brats that certainly wouldn't endure sweat from the heat of the summer or mosquito's.

Remember them driving up and down spraying what looked like a ball of dust for them?

Ahhhh the good ole days!

We lived right behind the drive-in. I'll never forget standing in the street, watching the movie Clockwork Orange -- it was so weird because I couldn't hear the dialog! My friends and I would all sneek into the drive-in through a hole in the back fence -- my friend's yard was directly behind the theater.  We would go up the embankement and sit on the old wood fence until the ushers ran us off!  When we were little, I remember going to the show in the family station wagon -- all the kids were in our jammies -- with home made popcorn and Faygo Pop. If we were lucky, our folks would let us buy candy from the concession stand (Dots for me!).  I still remember the ancient miniature train, the playground, and the lousy speakers that always fell off the car window!