“You get to go out and have a meal, you get your movies, you get an abbreviated camping trip without getting stinky, so that's a plus,” she says. The way Mary sees it, part of the appeal of a trip to the drive-in is getting the most bang for the old proverbial buck. Helping Bert with the mattress is his friend, Mary Galloway, another frequent visitor to the Dixie Twin, where folks can see two movies for about two thirds the price of a single indoor theater ticket. “It's just an amazing experience to be laying, look up and see the stars move around, moon moving from one place to the other and the occasional meteor, and enjoy a perhaps half-baked, slightly good movie,” he says. He says he comes to the drive-in every few weeks. In the bed of one truck, Bert Whitaker has just inflated an air mattress. Movie-goers lounge on blankets and in lawn chairs. Community Voices Producer Lauren Shows takes us to Dayton's Dixie Twin Drive-In to find out why.īetween row after row of white poles, cars and trucks are lined up, ready for tonight's first feature.

While many small and independent theaters have been struggling to adapt, drive-in theaters in particular are at a crucial moment in this nationwide transition. Over the last few years, due to pressure from the film industry, more and more movie theaters have been converting their projection method from 35 millimeter film to digital.

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