Alabama has 11 outdoor movie theaters

Why is this News?

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Originally posted by semiannualchick:
Why is this News?

And such a great time of the year to post it. it's getting too cold to go to a drive-in and they will all be closing soon for the winter. Good timing.

Iuka has its original drive-in and it is location is surrounded by mature trees and still has a play area down front for the kids.

kings drive-in still has a play area too.

A very informative post... But posted at the wrong time of year.

The Park View Drive Inn was located in "down town" Muscle Shoals and did not close for winter. The drive inn provided small electric heaters for your in-car comfort...they plugged into the speaker post.

I would rather go to the drive-in when the weather is cooler than to be uncomfortable in hot weather. Never understood why King's closes for the winter.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by SHELDIVR:
The Park View Drive Inn was located in "down town" Muscle Shoals and did not close for winter. The drive inn provided small electric heaters for your in-car comfort...they plugged into the speaker post.[/QUOTE
I started working at the Park-View when i was 15 years old. Mr Miller insisted that we have SS# and he took taxes out of our checks. When i had to apply for SS benefits; the lady there ssid : My Lord, have you worked all of yor life? We did not close for the winter. There were nights that we would only have maybe 10 cars. Sometimes we would go out after intermission and give free passes to the two or three cars that were left so we did not have to show second feature. I have so many good memories of that place. The people who worked there were like an extended family. Most of them worked there for years. I continued to work there after i got married and went to work at other places during the day. I look at these posts concerning health- inspections and can remember having points marked off for things that really did not affect food prep. There were things that Mr. Miller was harder on us than inspectors. The nozzels on the coke machines had to be cleaned every day. The rubber gasket on the ice machine had to be cleaned with clorox solution before any ice could be used everyday. The ground beef had to be delivered fresh evryday from Blankenship Grocery on 2nd Street in Sheffield. We had a scoop that we measured each hamburger in. One pound of ground beef had to make 8 hamburgers. The amount of oil and seasoning for each popper of pop corn had to be measured, no more or no less for each popper. Cleanliness was most important. He did not care if you used 25 towels extra, just so everything was clean. Southern Linen or something like that brought the towels and they came every other day. On Sunday; the buthcher at Blankenships would go down after church and grind up the ground beef for that night. If some of these people who work in the restarants today had to abide by Mr. Miller's rules; there would be no health scores low. If we got a anything below 95; there was heck to pay. Enough of this; but thanks for the memories of the Park_View!

This is a good and informative thread. I grew up going to the King Drive-In in Russellville and am so happy it's still around. Of course, I admit to being a sap for all things nostalgic.

[sighs]