Drive- In's

[Miranda]

Who is old enough to miss them? I saw all my first Horror films at the Algiers in Westland or at the Wayne Drive-In on Michigan Ave. I started going when I was about 3, my parents were Horror film fans. I really had fun partying there when I was a teenager too.

I will give the Quo-Vadis a R.I.P too.

[Guest Megalicious]

Who is old enough to miss them? I saw all my first Horror films at the Algiers in Westland  or at the Wayne Drive-In on Michigan Ave. I started going when I was about 3, my parents were Horror film fans. I really had fun partying there when I was a teenager too.

I will give the Quo-Vadis a R.I.P too.

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I love Drive-In's they are great ... we still have them where I grew up, not as many as there were when I was a child, but still a few.

[Miranda]

I love Drive-In's they are great ... we still have them where I grew up, not as many as there were when I was  a child, but still a few. 

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Is the one on Ford & Wyoming still around? I go to Maryland in the Summer and there is a drive-in right outside of Toledo.. I never want to be driving at that stage of the trip so I can see it form a passenger view. I should just pull over or something. :blushing

[Guest Megalicious]

Is the one on Ford & Wyoming still around?

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I have no idea, I was talking about California lol ..

[Miranda]

I have no idea, I was talking about California lol ..

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Oh, don't get me started on California. I lived there for a couple years in the 90's , loved it. I was in Torrance for a while, then Hollywood. I miss it.

[Msterbeau]

Bleh on L.A. Lived there a year in 1991. Too many self-centered people...

The Ford-Wyoming theaters are still there. DGN night at the drive through??? Heh!

[Hellion]

:devil You could sneak beer in and a few friends,those were the days.

[Scary Guy]

Saw E.T. with my dad, it was cool.

Then in recent years I went with some other friends and saw a few flicks. This was back when Dragonheart was new. Forgot what all else I saw there though.

I miss meeting people who were just there hanging out and talking due to lack of anything better to do.

[Blackmail]

there is still a drive-in in Dearborn which may be the one you guys are talking about and there is one at the Pontiac Silverdome in the parking lot.

As for the Quo-vadis, I am sure I spelled it wrong, but yeah that place was great. Why did it close? What about the Mai Kai theatre in Livonia? It turned into the George Burns theatre (live performances, the Supremes played there) and now it is a car lot. Down the street was the Terrace - now a car lot. Down the street a little more was the Wonderland Mall which had a theatre and that was torn down. So now the people living on Plymouth road in Livonia have nowhere to see a movie. Well, unless they drive somewhere not on plymouth road. but still.

I blame President Bush.

[JaneDead]

last time i went to a drive in it was the flintstone's movie and jurassic park. it started with the flintstone's and i fell asleep and woke up near the end of jurassic park. i was SO confused. i was thinking, i didn't know the flintstone's movie was going to turn so violent and *real* then i woke up a bit more and realized i missed pretty much both of the movies entirely.

[livininxtcgoth]

hey drive-ins werent THAT long ago, i'm one of the youngest on this site and i remember and miss them. my friend brittany's family used to pack up a big van every weekend and a bunch of us kids would all go and play on the swings and stuff before the double features @ the one that used to be on gratiot around like mt clemens/clinton twp.

[The_Dark]

Movies that I have seen at the Drive-In:

DeathRace 2000

A Clockwork Orange

Jaws

The Pink Panther

Young Frankenstien

Soilent Green

Sleeper

The Godfather

Close Enounters of the 3rd Kind

Demon Seed

and many many more... we went every Friday or Sat. night

[Draco1958]

I remember the Jolly Roger in Dearborn on Van Born Rd. There used to be an indoor and drive in theater in Southgate next to each other where Meijers is at now. Can't remember the name of the drive-in but my buds and I used to go there alot when we were in high school. The Ford-Wyoming drive in on the Dearborn Detroit border is still there. Think it has 6 screens now.

[sass_in_the_pants]

The Ford-Wyoming is still very much alive and well. Sketchy, for sure, but alive and well. I heard that the Compuware arena in PLymouth was going to start showing drive-in movies, but I'm not sure if that ever happened.

[JaneDead]

The Ford-Wyoming drive in on the Dearborn Detroit border is still there.  Think it has 6 screens now.

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i think that very well might be the one i went to last but i could not for the life of me think of it

[Dubh Aingeal]

Think it has 6 screens now.

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9 screens and here is their link:

Ford-Wyoming Drive In

I heard that the Compuware arena in PLymouth was going to start showing drive-in movies, but I'm not sure if that ever happened.

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Compuware Drive In

[Der Nister]

My family use to go to the old Wayne drvie-in on Michigan ave (now a Ford plant) through out the 70's and early 80's. Lots of memories and seen a lot of cool movies there. Last time I went to a drive-in was in 89 or 90, the Ford Wyoming drive-in in Dearborn.

[Miranda]

My family use to go to the old Wayne drvie-in on Michigan ave (now a Ford plant) through out the 70's and early 80's. Lots of memories and seen a lot of cool movies there. Last time I went to a drive-in was in 89 or 90, the Ford Wyoming drive-in in Dearborn.

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Wasn't the Ford Plant always there? They just extended it? :blink

[Der Nister]

Wasn't the Ford Plant always there? They just extended it?  :blink

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Nope, it was all Wayne theatre. They plowed it all and put up the Ford plant around 87 or 88. My brother in law works there.

[Miranda]

Nope, it was all Wayne theatre. They plowed it all and put up the Ford plant around 87 or 88. My brother in law works there.

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There had to be a Ford plant there... my neightbor next door worked there in the 70's. Unless my brain is fucking me up. It's possible.

[Der Nister]

I'm sorry - you may be right but my memory says there wasn't any Ford plant there until the late 80's.

It's time to google. :laughing

[Gauge]

hey drive-ins werent THAT long ago, i'm one of the youngest on this site and i remember and miss them.  my friend brittany's family used to pack up a big van every weekend and a bunch of us kids would all go and play on the swings and stuff before the double features @ the one that used to be on gratiot around like mt clemens/clinton twp.

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yea really, im younger than you and i remember going to them. theres still one around here somewhere

[The Rod]

yeah we even had one around here not all that long ago. before they closed it down my dad took me and my brother to go see Arachnophobia there.