Well, I'm gonna give a "high five"
mention, to a now gone Newark landmark. The Newark Drive-In movie!!
I saw many a Hammer Productions (Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing)
DRACULA Horror movies there, along with all of Clint Eastwood's
spaghetti westerns - The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, A Fistfull
of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More...and Steve McQueen's movie,
BULLET - with the best ever classic "car chase", up and
down the roller coaster streets of San Francisco. WOWWWW! And always
2 movies shown, not just one.
Now, c'mon...I know the Newark Drive-In wasn't attended by only
DN'ers. Was another meeting place for all, whether a carload full,
or in separate cars. The snack building. Those little green things
you burned in the car, to keep the summertime mosquitoes away from
you...hah. The heaters for the fall/winter months...and the speakers
hung on your car...that sometimes squawked, if they were faulty...and
finding yourself driving away with it, if you forgot to put it back
on its stand. LOLOL
I remember one particular winter night, quite vividly. It was cold
and already a light snow was falling. My then boyfriend and I decided
we would go to the Drive-In anyway (the things you do when young..lol).
Me, being 16 at the time, had a curfew time to be home. So, off
we go - set the heater up in the car, had a blanket too - because
the heater wasn't gonna be quite warm enough. Got some goodies to
eat/drink and were ready for the movies. Well, between the heater
and the blanket, along with the COLD outside...we fell asleep. Next
thing we know we hear knocking on the car door, which woke us up
immediately. We hear a voice saying, is all ok, and that the place
was closing, and we had to leave. We couldn't see a thing out of
the car windows, as they were covered in snow. Yes, the snow fall
picked up quite fast. My boyfriend then opened the window, and said
ok. When we cleared the windshield off, we saw that we were the
only car left in the place. How embarrassing that was. Besides that,
we saw the time, and I was past curfew. Now I had to go home, where
both me and my boyfriend, had to explain (foremost) to my Dad, what
had happened. Hoping he'd believe it, because it really was the
TRUTH. Really was funny though. Good thing we didn't leave the car
running - we mighta croaked...hmmmm, maybe a song woulda been written
about us then, on the order of Teen Angel. LOLOLOLOL
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