Drive in movies - fun days of the past!

The book I am now reading is The Cider House Rules.

It is great - very sad - make you think - a lot. How will it end???? I can't wait to find out.

(There is a Cider House Rules movie that was made as well, although I have never seen it, since I always prefer books instead).

One awesome passage in the book is when teens Candy & Wally take their new friend Homer Wells to his first drive in movie ever. It is a jaw dropping passage like a lot of passages in this book are. Imagine a 20-something year old, orphan all his life, never having been to a movie, let alone to a drive in movie.

The things we take for granted in life.

I started thinking about drive in movies, and all the memories that I don't want to take for granted.

We had two drive ins near where I grew up in North Kingstown, RI. The Quonset Drive In (located just off Route 1 near the entrance to the Quonset Point Base), as well as the Hilltop Drive In on Route 1 on the NK/EG line. 

As little kids we'd get dressed in our jammies, loaded into the station wagon, and went to the Drive In to see the latest Disney movies like Herbie the Love Bug Movie or Benji. It was awesome...

As a teenager, I remember seeing Rocky there for the first time, with some great friends, two of whom were making out in the back seat! Obviously I always walked to a different drummer and preferred to watch the movie instead of smooching it up... there was no way I was missing out on Rocky for a few smooches!

We also had an inventive and self entertaining neighborhood. The Blaine family had a ton of kids and their parents let us have our own sit in (vs drive in movies)... Since we were too young to drive, they'd let us set up the tv outside and watch the Saturday night movie around the picnic table. I saw the movie M*A*S*H for the first time there.

So, although Putnam does not have a drive in movie theater, it does have a great library, which offers me great books - and even movies to take home so I can have drive in movies in my own home sweet home.

Thank goodness for great books that get you thinking about things - like your drive in movie days!

I am a Putnamaniac that loves to expand my mind with literature and reminisce with it as well - especially about all my old drive in movie days!