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06.23.2008 11:33 pm

The call of the drive-in never gets old

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

skyview.jpgLast weekend, my colleague Charles Williams took his family to the Skyview Drive-In in Belleville. It was his first visit to an ozoner in two decades. Now he says he understands why I won’t shut up about outdoor movie screenings.…

06.06.2008 2:07 pm

Happy Drive-In Theatre Day

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

June 6 is the anniversary of the first drive-in theater, in 1933 in Camden, N.J. Drive-ins were invented by a fellow named Richard Hollingshead (whose patent was not simply for outdoor movies but for the little hillocks, or “ramps “…

05.18.2008 2:00 am

No, Speed Racer, no!

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

I gave “Speed Racer” a second chance tonight, because it was playing at the drive-in, where every movie seems better.

In my new (albeit 15-year-old) car, I wouldn’t have minded the 150-mile round-trip drive to the Starlite, north of Potosi,…

03.24.2008 7:07 pm

Let’s all go to the drive-in

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Winter is now officially over. On the first weekend of spring, two local drive-in theaters re-opened for the warm-weather movie season.

The Skyview in Belleville (not to be confused with the Skyview on old Route 66 in Litchfield, Ill.) has…

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