if you grew up in northern Berkshire County in the sixties seventies and
eighties
chances are that on any given Saturday night you might be found at Coreys
drive-in
in North Adams or roller magic in Williamstown gone but certainly not for
dianne
producer Tony down and videographer mark Landsman take up on look at children's
entertainment from a bygone era
long before Netflix in video games ruled kids heart
party drive in with really fun place to go
I remember driving with my parents
down car on the highway and you could see the screen lit up there
my family would go my aunts and uncles re lined up in a row with our car
they remember the anticipation as a kid knowing that we are going on Saturday
night I remember seeing
far no way with Cassidy and the Sundance Kid returning the jet II
I definitely saw Star Wars their is a great thing for families
and is a great thing for teenagers you know as you can I'll get to go together
and you know
happened said quietly and watch the movie you can't do
socialize my dad on the area
junk yard next door to the where the land is my on Sunday afternoons we had
cousins come down and have dinner with us that had
owns from drive-in theaters and he says want to build a drive-in theater
so I took his idea and I ran with it and I got the
drive-in theater bill June 15 1956
600 car drive in really up to date
big-screen beautiful concession stand after five years building the Corey
drive and I bought the music drive-in theater so we operated
both arrive in theaters family operation
my wife was in one I was in the other my son and my daughter
everybody was around with with Grady
search social gatherings place for you're just going to see a movie you're
going to see your friends in your neighbor as an all sharing this
experience together
and we'll ran for 37 seasons so we saw generations
change you know and that was exciting
my earliest memories have to be when I was a little kid with my job to wash the
windshield before we went to my mother want to make sure the wind chill house
clean
into the moon's carried Highlands my car in the united
playing my mom my dad but then other people from the neighborhood
be there too when you got there most people weren't in their parents they
were outside their cars like everyone had their lawn chairs
I'm big social and
and the kids here although head down to the front and re that the movie screen
where they had them
like a playground area and play there until
until the Sun went down at all the kids would be in their pajamas they'd be up
on the screen
that in PJ honey friend active harming
my dad the speaker on the inside the car it was always fun when people forgot to
watch that the speaker of a job after the speakers
in with even driving out and as yeah here with that's because the Nikon
hey you have this amazing movie screen frame
stars above you and it would be
hey really great people would actually
get up before the end of a movie go to confession
so they could be first in line its unique foods
they had some distinctive french fries I still have put me in that case
I don't know if I ever thought the movie start finish there because they feel
like I'd always fall asleep they remember
going
getting there having fine watching the beginning and a movie and then
waking up in my bed later on at some point that day
of a traffic jam because was twenty yea other times are you going to stay on the
saudis cuz be coming at you and say
up driving nothing out
thank you very much show
demise at the drive-in theater multiplexes came into the picture at
which you know 100 200 cedars
they could generate a lot more
income for the distributors then what a drive-in theater crowd
because it 1992 but I found out that course was closing it with
it was bad I actually wrote an editorial for my high school newspaper
those really upset they were closing well i sold it to Walmart
corporation Ocean State job lot
is what's there now and a lot of people were upset
everybody went there at some point people still come up to us on the street
after 22 years
be called and reminisce
as a matter of fact we're having dinner two nights ago
and the lady who had never met was on our table area
and she said well mister Korea remember the drive love your french fries
and it's so different than today are like you just plop on the couch in
full Netflix or Hulu in you know on for second you're watching a movie
that social element that comes with a drive-in movie theater is
definitely the mall came
fully 80's early 90's so Friday night he went to the mall
and you met everybody went to the moon
you used to be able to use go to the roller rink for like
too but spend the day there role in magic came in in nineteen eighty
you you go there in and hang out with your friend and one of my favorite
things to do
would you be gate up to the DJ booth and requesting funds and one of my favorite
your quest to be michael Jackson I'm
definitely up to to be a the Thriller album they've rented
skate and you don't wanna rent
kt12 on your skates and I remember being really excited when I got my first pair
roller skate their way with these hot pink wheels so proud of them
so I remember kinda to smell distinctly and
think thinking back in place ball from point they would have used to disinfect
roller skating they just take the skate the night sprayed Lysol and I'm after
people return them that's another reason why it in hard perfect the it
and then the smell love the confession and the confessions were horrible write
a review
microwave P third place in oh yeah
the the Peter will pretty nasty
and one other memory I have is a spending Halloween there
so we would go we wear costumes and it was always a great time to go and that
he with the other kids are wearing
you just met a lot of people from other towns I knew kids from panel in Stamford
in
Williamstown any really don't get that integration around here
I remember when I found out that really magic was closing in it was the kind of
sad they close the 95 when I was a junior in high school
I really felt like the inline skates killed it
and even now today when I come home I come back to the berkshires and I'll
look at that Plaza
all I can seein is rowing magic you know I miss it
I think it was a certain time period it was something to do and I know
people complain about having nothing to do
further it sounds like puppets what we did with their own