Drive-In @ N.W. Expressway

[papaOU]

You have to wear your jammies and stay in the backseat. No whining!! LOL

Black silk........................

[papaOU]

I'm gonna ask eastcoastokie if those drive-in's are on her makeout spots>>>>>>>>>>>

[lt14life]

The N.W. Hi-way Drive Inn was at N.W. Hi-Way and independence and their was a Dunfords Texaco next to it as I worked their as a teenager. Now its a 7-eleven and the Drive inn is the Hotel Mariot. The Drive inn that your asking about was farther west I think ?? But boy I sure do have alot of great memories from the old N.W. Hi-Way drive inn.

[Hammondjam]

Back when I was a kid, my folks would do the grocery bag of popcorn too. It wasn't to cheat the owners. It was because OUR popcorn just tasted better and my appetite for popcorn was phenomenal if not somewhat scary. We'd also take a pic-a-nic basket(Back Yogi!) loaded with fried chicken and some Sweetheart colas and go to the Hillcrest, the Riviera, the 77 Drive-In and occasionally, the Sooner Twin. Once in a great while, we'd travel north and go to the aforementioned venues.

My dad would catch a catnap since that was the only time that I EVER shutup and was quiet while in a car. Munchin on chicken and watching the radioactive island monsters eat the villagers. What a life!!

[PennyQuilts]

I'm gonna ask eastcoastokie if those drive-in's are on her makeout spots>>>>>>>>>>>

The last time I was there I was 8 months pregnant and the oldest was asleep in the car.

But, yeah, there was some smooching going on - I admit it.

I was young.

[NikonNurse]

The drive in was just east of Hertz. In the area that was Service Merchandise and currently houses Donna's Hallmark.

[Jim Kyle]

Don't forget the one at May Avenue and Britton Road, on the NE corner where today there's a strip mall. I think it was the Twilight Gardens, but that may have been the name of the one on NW 39 just west of Countil Road... It had a playground for the kids, to keep them busy until it got dark enough for the movie.

As for the Cinema 70 that started this thread, that's where I first saw "Patton" with George C. Scott...

[NikonNurse]

39th and council was Lake-Air or Lakeaire...or sumtin'

[Generals64]

39th and council was Lake-Air or Lakeaire...or sumtin'

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Was it Lakeside?...I know my LAST date with any girl other than the one I married (44 years) was at that drive inn. It was by the bridge that crosses the lake if I remember right.....Took my wife to be out the next night and that was that....

[papaOU]

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Was it Lakeside?...I know my LAST date with any girl other than the one I married (44 years) was at that drive inn. It was by the bridge that crosses the lake if I remember right.....Took my wife to be out the next night and that was that....

Lakeside was an indoor theater on N. May north of 63rd. When I was a kid they showed all the Disney films there but they also had first run movies like "The Longest Day."

[Jim Kyle]

Right! It was at Grand Blvd and May (actually Country Club Drive and May, about 50 yards south of the Grand Blvd intersection), across from the Lakeside Shopping Center which is still around...

[gen70]

Anybody remember the 66 Drive-in?

[papaOU]

Anybody remember the 66 Drive-in?

Is that the one that was North of Lake Overholser and was East of the Canadian ?

[gen70]

Is that the one that was North of Lake Overholser and was East of the Canadian ?

It was just off Rt. 66 kinda close to Lincoln Blvd. It sat empty for many years. I know it had been closed before 1971.

[bluedogok]

39th and council was Lake-Air or Lakeaire...or sumtin'

Lake Air Drive In
It is on the north side of 39th west of Council right before the bridge by the Bluff Creek Canal gates. Even a couple of years ago there were a building and sign still around there. My parents said the mosquitos were always bad out there.

Anybody remember the 66 Drive-in?

Cinema 66 Drive-In
From the link above: on Route 66, Entrance off Grand Blvd

[gen70]

Lake Air Drive In
It is on the north side of 39th west of Council right before the bridge by the Bluff Creek Canal gates. Even a couple of years ago there were a building and sign still around there. My parents said the mosquitos were always bad out there.


Cinema 66 Drive-In
From the link above: on Route 66, Entrance off Grand Blvd

Thanks, Dog my long term memory ain't that bad after all. I love them old Drive-Ins.

[bluedogok]

That is a pretty neat site to look through, there in another one out there but it doesn't have as comprehensive of a database.

[gen70]

That is a pretty neat site to look through, there in another one out there but it doesn't have as comprehensive of a database.

I think I have checked out most of them. Got a good story about the"66" but, can't tell it here.

[papaOU]

Lake Air Drive In
It is on the north side of 39th west of Council right before the bridge by the Bluff Creek Canal gates. Even a couple of years ago there were a building and sign still around there. My parents said the mosquitos were always bad out there.


Cinema 66 Drive-In
From the link above: on Route 66, Entrance off Grand Blvd

That building, projection booth and another level beneath it, had people living there a few years back as well.

[Prunepicker]

When my parents moved us from Iowa to Oklahoma in 1974, there used to be
a drive-in theater on the N.W. Expressway where Service Merchandise used
to be. Now, it's just a outdoor mall ... next to Hertz office. Anyone remember
the name of the drive-in?

It was the Cinema 70. Spent many evenings there.