![]() ![]() ![]() a piece of garbage known as Beverly Hills Cop 2. Even then, the concept that vast tracts of land could be set aside so that on a few nights a year, folks could watch movies from what amounted to a massive parking lot, seemed outlandish and even scandalous. A product of a dense, concrete jungle, I was in my mid-20s and re-located east before I ever rolled into a drive-in movie theater. Why mourn for the Colonial, the Blue Dell or Super 71 when you could be enjoying a movie under the stars this very night? I have no warm childhood memories of drive-ins. In an area that is so often defined by places that are gone and the "good old days," Pittsburghers are quicker to reminisce about long-gone theaters than to realize that right now our town is among the best in the nation for density of drive-ins. Like poodle skirts, malt shops and chrome bumpers, drive-ins are a hallmark of mid-century Americana that folks assume just slipped away when we were busy being modern. Summer Music Roundup Music Listings Visual Art Theater Order Up! Fairs and Festivals Kidstuff Sports and Recreation "Really?" That's what I hear when I tell people there are a dozen drive-in movie theaters still operating in the greater Pittsburgh area. ![]()
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