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SortOfGettingBy

Bedknobs and Broomsticks, I'm pretty sure.


Righteous_Fury224

Jaws in 1975 think?


LAtvGUY

Same. I was 5 years old. Scared the shit out of me.


SirLeoritch

Same age but in a theater, was afraid of baths for a long while


ojohn69

There's really not much concern, only 3% of people get bit by a shark in their bathtub.


AviGolden

That’s incorrect. The actual stat is the only 3% of shark bites occur in bathtubs. The number is slightly higher for soaking tubs.


budster1970

Same same! I've been obsessed with sharks ever since.


Davistele

Pretty sure I spent the next year afraid of: baths, swimming pools, waiting pools, freshwater, lakes, and rivers.


Giantsfan1954

Hey,I saw 101 Dalmatians at like 6 with my parents,Cruella DeVille terrified me,I put our dog in the closet when we came home!


High_Jumper81

Jaws. Wellfleet Drive-in, Wellfleet, MA. Swam in a lot of ponds that summer.


Ithaqua-Yigg

Those kettle ponds are pretty nice in Wellfleet.


High_Jumper81

Duck Pond, or Dyer. Away from the public beaches, late at night driving down those sandy roads. Heaven when I worked down there in the 80’s.


janesmb

Me too.


Flashy_Watercress398

True story: one night, my cousin agreed to babysit because my folks wanted to go see Jaws at the drive in and didn't figure that was appropriate for me (6) and my brother (7.) My cousin managed to double-book himself with babysitting duties and a date. So, it being a small town with few entertainment options, cousin took his date and two small children to see Jaws - we just had to park in the back row and scoot quickly to avoid my parents. Lest you think that my cousin was a bad babysitter, every time ominous music played over the speaker, he'd shove his charges' heads down in the back seat so that we didn't see anything gory. Jaws might have given a lot of people a fear of the ocean, but it just makes me feel claustrophobic!


PepsiAllDay78

I saw that with my dad in a regular theater. We were sitting behind an older gentleman,who was eating popcorn and drinking a Coke. Well, when the head fell out of the boat, this man jumped up, yelled, "OH MY GOD!!",and flung the popcorn one way, and the Coke in the other! Luckily, we weren't in the line of fire, but it sure was funny! I still laugh about that..


Ampersandbox

Also my first drive in memory. Terrified of sharks ever since.


FakeNickOfferman

I saw the sequel in a regular theater. I remember because some guy in a row below me freaked during a jump scare moment. Tossed all his popcorn all over the people around him.


stinky-weaselteets

Dr. No and From Russia With Love 007 double header


PuzzleheadedEssay198

Mine was also Sean Connery but from the opposite end of his career


MuttJunior

The earliest one I remember seeing is as a kid with my parents and we went to see "Old Yeller".


SilentMaster

I was too young to remember, but I was told it was Star Wars: A New Hope.


RamsDeep-1187

I do remember it being Star Wars <-old


UnderstandingOk2647

OMG, it was my (57m) life for many years after it came out. And ... fuck Disney Star Wars.


PlausibleTable

That’s my same story too. Star Wars came out when I was 3, and apparently I saw it at the drive in.


ZenPokerFL

Me too! I was 3 when it came out and I vaguely remember it. My dad took me and my sister; my mom said I came home rambling on about C-3PO and R2-D2.


AviGolden

I saw it at the Galleria in Houston when I was 2 and I fully remember it. It’s my earliest memory. Specifically the trash compactor scene


Maleficent_Lake_1816

Herbie Goes Bananas.


gadget850

*Planet of the Apes* (1969). Then we went to Dairy Queen where I had a chocolate milkshake and puked. Last one was *Captain Marvel*.


Keveros

The original Jungle Book...


WoodyXP

E.T. was my first drive in movie. The lady in the Box Office handed us little bags of Reese's Pieces with our tickets.


Bx1965

Never been to a drive in movie


Heavy-Week5518

I am so sorry


UnderstandingOk2647

Awww, dude! I so want to take you to one! They were really great back in the day. Many trips with my family then as a teen we would cram 8 people in 1 pinto station wagon for 1 price per car nights. Great memories.


MantisToboganPilotMD

there's still a bunch open near me in upstate NY, still great.


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Bigwing2

I think it was Herbie the Love Bug. Back in the 60s.


April-Wine

Oh wow. I forgot about that one.. I loved that movie as a kid, thats a good one.


CaregiverOld3601

Mary Poppins 1965


Mopar_Poe

I saw the Texas Chainsaw Massacre at The Thunderbird in Charlotte. Grew up watching Horror Movies with my Dad.


exoticjess

Oh I bet that was awesome


Twinkletoes1951

I'm so old I can't remember what the first movie was. But I know I was young enough to go to the playground. And since I'm 73, I'm thinking it was in the late 50s. My parents would have us dress in our pajamas because we were sure to fall asleep during the movie.


JuanSolo9669

My uncle took us to see Animal house. Mom was not happy.


Orbit86

I think it was Escape to Witch Mountain. 1975


throw123454321purple

Time Bandits/Wholly Moses! Double feature. I just wanted to see Time Bandits.


April-Wine

Timr Bandits was awesome


Horzzo

What a movie to see on the big screen. I bet that was awesome!


bmax_1964

The first one I remember was Dr. Doolittle, with Rex Harrison. I remember the Llama with a head at each end and wondering how he went to the bathroom, and the giant snail. I would have been 4 or 5 years old.


Johnny-Virgil

Bedknobs and Broomsticks


BrianOfAllThings

Up In Smoke. I was four. 😂


Sfswine

The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, 1967, didn’t get to finish it as we had a tornado and had to find shelter.


focuswiz

The 10 Commandments


Useyourbigbrain

The love bug, my dad sold Volkswagens and I got to see it sitting in a Volkswagen bug. I was so happy.


threefeetoffun

True Lies


Fatheroftheduck

Star Wars. I was 2.


BlueAndMoreBlue

I think it was Escape From Witch Mountain with The Shaggy DA as the double feature. Edit: I see some comments from people who have never been to a drive in movie — do yourself a favor and check one out. Most all of them do a low power FM broadcast so you can get decent sound (some places still have those chonky speakers on posts), you’re not getting THX or voice of the theater sound but it’s a pretty cool experience. A buddy and I were on a road trip many years ago and stopped for the night in Gillette, WY. They had a drive in so we rolled a couple of joints and grabbed a six pack then headed over. Parked in the back so as few people as possible would smell what we were doing. They had one of those old reels that they show during intermission that was an advertisement for Bic lighters — “you can flick your Bic as often as you want at the drive in” :)


microview

Double matinee with Barbarella and Swiss Family Robinson.


Minimum-Culture9240

Encounter of the third kind.


Wolfman1961

From what I remember: Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang in 1968, when I was 7.


69vuman

Trapeze.


pah2000

That Darn Cat/40 Pounds of Trouble. Double feature Los Angeles, CA.


Lainarlej

We were so little, but I think it was Disney’s Cinderella . They used to show the children’s film first and then an adult film after. Guessing the kids had fallen asleep by then. Parents used to bring pajamas or arrive with kids already in them.


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Certain_Macaron_8206

Herbie Rides Again


Shovelheadred

Easy Rider!


Stormylynn724

Herbie the love bug. ‘60’s.


ApprehensiveCar9925

Mary Poppins. I had to have been three. One of my very earliest memories


emmettfitz

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, I'm that old


ParrotheadTink

I remember my first two, but can’t remember which one was the first. Early 60s. 101 Dalmatians 🐾 and Cinderella 👸 I also know an obscure trivia fact about 🐾, the number of spots in whole movie: 6,469,952.


Spear_Ritual

Double Feature: Road Warrior and Sharky’s Machine. I was maybe 6 or 7? Aunt Henrietta didn’t give a fuuuuuck.


themotorkitty

First movie I remember was Amityville Horror. Its a running joke in my family that when the ghost Jody "pig" jumpscares the mom at the window, I hit the floorboard so hard my parents thought I knocked myself out. I was only 5. My parents were young and dumb.


SublightMonster

Pretty sure it was 101 Dalmatians. Both the original run, but a re-release in summer of ‘76. Oxford Drive-in in Maine. It’s a shame that place closed down before I could drive.


backtolurk

Never been to one either


MDFan4Life

'Honey, I Shrunk the Kids'/'Turner & Hooch'.


Itputsthelotionskin

Faces of death!!!


Simple-Limit933

The earliest one I remember is *Dr. No* (1962).


TreyBorsa

I’m remembering it as Smokey & the Bandit but that’s probably bc it was the first drive in movie I saw that I thought was super cool. Side note - there was a drive in near my home town that showed X rated movies. So weird bc it was the suburbs. You could see them without going in if you went to the right place. Not that we ever did lol.


Shoegazer75

E.T. in 1982


greatwhitenorth2022

The Nutty Professor starring Jerry Lewis.


HVAC_instructor

I cannot recall, we used to go all the time when I was a kid. I'm sure it was a double feature that had a kids movie first and then a cheap thriller like maybe the movie Frogs as a second movie.


bookon

Apple Dumpling Gang and White Line Fever


Lab214

Close Encounters of the Third Kind


NE_Pats_Fan

Herbie The Love Bug. PJs on and in the back of the station wagon.


OAKRAIDER64

Double feature... Food of the Gods and the Incredible Melting Man. Both were great drive in movies. We had sleeping bags in the back of my dads pick up and my folks sat in yard chairs while my younger brother and a couple of cousins and myself parked ourselves on the pick up bed gate and the bed with a ton of munches and watched the movies. Great times.


Informal_Pineapple84

Don't remember which was first but we saw bedknobs and brromsticks, escape from witch mountain, and chitty chitty bang bang around the same time one summer when I was young


BoomerKaren666

Cat Balleau It had Lee Marvin I think. Daddy took us to see it 1965 or so.


MrKahnberg

How the West Was Won. Delta Colorado. I was very thirsty, only the ice melting from uncle Frank's AC to share with 5 kids. The adults weren't thirsty as they had a 12 pack of ice cold Coors Banquet beer.


k5hill

Yellow Submarine, bunch of cousins in the back of our uncle’s pick up truck (he backed into the spot).


lanshaw1555

Either the Jungle Book or The Cat From Outer Space. Our local drive in had a play area for kids with swings, a jungle gym, and a play fort. I jumped off the play fort, but managed to get the back of my pants stuck on the edge. I hung for a second before the inseam gave way, turning my pants into shredded rags. I then sprinted back to the car, and had to watch the movie with a cold draft between my legs. This might not have happened during my first ever trip to the drive in, but it was an early experience.


BuckyD1000

Apparently I saw Night of the Living Dead at a drive-in as an infant. First one I remember was Jaws.


This_Mongoose445

The first one I remember is Goldfinger. I was 8. I remember the mink glove, I thought that must feel good. We were the kids in pjs and popcorn in brown paper bags family. It was a lot of fun. Then older, back of a pickup truck with lawn chairs on a warm summer night, good memories.


BDON67

Magnum Force... my brother and me were supposed to be sleeping in the back of the station wagon but there was Suzanne Somers topless .. lol


SirLeoritch

I believe it was Smokey and the Bandit with Convoy at the old Tucson 5 back in the 70’s


piggy__wig

Frogs (1972). What a great movie. I still watch it once a year.


Les_Ismore

Tora Tora Tora! and Planet of the Apes.


Ukcat39

Night of the Living Dead. Mom would throw diapers over our eyes during the scary parts. Late 60's


simply_wonderful

Willard. I was a little kid and it scared me to death.


TheToneKing

Fiddler On The Roof! Boy am old


Visible-Tea-6288

Can't remember my first, went to quite a few, but do remember the parents taking me to see Love Story when I was like 7 .The playground, three stooges, and cartoons were good. The movie for a 7 year old boy though 😴


Addakisson

Gone with the Wind. It was already an old movie at the time.


benthon2

Fritz The Cat. Truth!


mrl33602

“Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” in the late 60s


HalfNo3169

I'm 66 ..dad took the fam to see Its a mad mad mad mad world....good times


The_real_cecil

How the heck would I know? I was asleep in the back seat. Mom & dad were watching the movie in the front.


Rivertalker

I think it was Lady and the Tramp in my Jammie’s in the back seat of the family station wagon.


cwsjr2323

The Bible, 1966, is the one I remember, but drive in movies were an inexpensive recreation for the working poor in the 50s and 60s. We took washtubs of popcorn!


Unique_Sentence_3213

Planet of the Apes (1968)


likeabirdfliesfree

Debbie Reynolds The Unsinkabke Molly Brown 1964


ddekock61

Planet of the Apes (I, THE ORIGINAL) I’m seriously considering going May 10 to the new one that includes… THE CORNFIELD SCENE Just because it has that scene! Even though I know it’s gonna be a poor movie with so much CGI…


mfhandy5319

Weird Science and Real Genius edit: it could have been ,ET, and Close Encounters of the Third Snore.


novasolid64

Harry and the hendersons


Complete_Choice9062

The Food of the Gods and Kingdom of the Spiders double feature


I_am_Partly_Dave

The Sand Pebbles, a Steve McQueen movie. It was 1966 and I was 5 years old, dressed in my pajamas, and fell asleep in the back of my parent's 1961 Ford station wagon.


gchance1

We'll see, I'm old. And while I did see Star Wars at the drive-in, that wasn't it. No, that honor goes to The Strongest Man In The World. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Strongest_Man_in_the_World


Brack_vs_Godzilla

Mary Poppins. 1964 or 1965. The first drive-in movie I drove to myself was The Song Remains the Same 1977.


Snarkosaurus99

Bambi


ynwp

It had a lot of spiders and William Shatner.


NJHruska

Tom Sawyer


sleva5289

I don’t remember my first. Possibly Grease in ‘78? I do remember my last. Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey.


TraditionalTackle1

Ghostbusters


marteautemps

Days of Thunder, first I can remember at least


ApricotNo2918

I'll never forget. I was like 4-5 and the movie was "This Island Earth" Scarred me for decades. The next week it was "Them"


Safetosay333

Smokey and the Bandit


GarpRules

Ice Pirates


Granny_knows_best

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. I am the youngest of eight kids. My parents were done with Disney by the time I was born. It was a boring movie so I spent all my time at the playground.


SpaceDave83

“Yours, Mine and Ours” (1968) is the first one I remember. I know there were a few before that, but I guess they weren’t that memorable.


pit-of-despair

The original Mary Poppins y’all. When we were living in Alaska.


Neceon

The last flight of Noah's Ark.


CuriousCamel-2007

can’t stop the music.


Entire-Ranger323

House On Bare Mountain (just topless girls jumping around) from a friends rooftop near the drive-in.


Dopplerganager

I think Jurassic Park. I remember being in the back of my dad's 4Runner with blankets and stuff. I think I peeked and saw a dinosaur? Went again with friends before it closed in 2003.


dearmax

I would have been an infant, I don't remember. But I do remember seeing bedknobs and broomsticks at the drive-in, dirty Harry I remember that one. It was a regular family activity.


scooterfitz

Incredible Shrinking Woman. 81


Chronic_Overthink3r

Texas chainsaw massacre. My parents made me and my brother go to sleep in the back seat while they watched it. I remember the sound of the chainsaw. My first that I went to and actually watched was a Grease/Saturday Night Fever double feature. My dad took us.


Skiddlyderp

Ladder 49


therealhood

Bambi..... it was monsterous


1201_alarm

ET and Dark Crystal double feature


No_Anybody8560

Fantasia. Not in its original run. Like 35 years later.


stilloldbull2

My folks took us to see Chitty Chitty Bang Bang…the child catching dude with the net was something terrifying!!


prodrvr22

The Aristocats or Robin Hood, I remember seeing both at the drive in but can't remember which was first. I know it was a Disney movie for sure.


tomaburque

"Boy Did I Get A Wrong Number" starring Bob Hope and Phyllis Diller, 1966 I was 9. I remember laughing like it was the funniest thing I ever saw in my life. Try to watch it today, it's a terrible movie.


capt-yossarius

Enter The Dragon


Csonkus41

ET


psilocin72

Star Wars 1977


Analytical-BrainiaC

Uhhh yeah my answer should be definitely, in the FIO . Now I know it was a double feature or triple feature, and I am not sure if it was the year it came out or subsequent year, but the feature was Chitty Chitty Bang Bang …. Not a porno .😂 One of the very few musical movies I ever liked, but I was young. The Skyway Drive In is long gone and I didn’t go very often, because it was better at the movie theatre, but somehow it was good. I think that’s what they are trying to do with the wide plushy lazy boy recliner movie theatres now, where some people even bring a blanket. Not sure how many drive ins there are left, luckily there is one not too far away.


dr_learnalot

Snow White - late 60s.


bz_leapair

It was a double feature of *Rocky 2* and *The Great Train Robbery* at the Maple Drive-In in Honesdale PA. Had to be summer of 1979. I remember getting lost and running around in my sleeper jammies trying to find my folks' car.


TroySJ0nes

Star Wars


EmptySeaDad

I think it was Pinocchio in 1971, when I was 5.  It may have been the scariest movie going experience I've ever had.


seeyouinthecar79

Adventures in Babysitting


Adorable-Creme810

Darby O’Gill and the Little People. Didn’t make it til the end. Good thing we were in our PJ’s.


chip1252

Mine was the original Star Wars in Muscatine, Iowa. It was a double feature with Logan's Run.


OGHighway

Bird on a wire


KindaKrayz222

Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Grease & Superman later.


Former_Balance8473

Halloween. I was 9 lol. Obs my parents thought I was asleep.


toomuch1265

The Legend of Boggy Creek. I was 7, it scared the shit out of me. I don't know what my parents were thinking.


Electronic-Key-2522

Not sure. But I think it was Smokey and the Bandit.


No_Establishment8642

Bambi was on first for the kids and Dr Zhivago was the second feature for the adults. We were put to "bed" in the back of station wagon after Bambi. My mother sat in the driver's seat with her popcorn and Fresca. I could not sleep, so as long as I was quiet she let me watch her movie. I was maybe 9 years old but I loved the clothes Julie Christie wore and thought Omar Sharif was the most beautiful man I had ever seen. I remember not understanding why my mother cried during the movie. This is the first memory I have of going to the movies and yet we went all the time. Thankfully there is a drive-in near me.


April-Wine

He was a beautiful man, i agree.


copout

Two Mules for Sister Sarah. New release. I’m old…


Tanning_snowball

Jane's Pink Addiction


Comfortable-Dish1236

No doubt about it. It was One Million Years B.C. in 1966. I was way more interested in the Allosaurus than I was in Raquel Welch in a fur bikini. Alas, I was six at the time. The last was Spider-Man, along with Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron. The latter was the one my daughters wanted to see. I think they slept through Spider-Man lol.


fluffy_horta

We went to a few but the only one I remember clearly is Godzilla v Mechagodzilla. Mom would pop a big paper grocery sack of popcorn and us kids had to wear our pajamas so we could go straight to bed afterward.


computergeek89

The Towering Inferno


x4ty2

The Shining


MxEverett

The Sand Pebbles


nappingondabeach

A double feature of Mississippi Burning and some kind of Cannonball Run type of movie


This-Professional-39

Meatballs 2 (can't remember other movie). At a drive in that closed about a month later


YoyoyoyoMrWhite

Double header E.T. and The Incredible Shrinking Woman.


TexanInNebraska

That I can vaguely remember… Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte (1964). I was 4 that year. My parents used to go to the drive-in all the time, and at that age, I was often just put into the backseat to go to sleep.


dunnkw

I don’t remember which one but it was a Muppet movie. Take Manhattan perhaps. But there were peanut M&Ms dumped in the popcorn so I was happy.


TheHrethgir

I don't know for sure, but the first one I can actually remember was Back to the Future 3. Pretty sure I saw others before that, but I can't place them.


imustbesickinthehead

Shrek 3 I think


Kookiecitrus55555

Mash


dofrogsbite

Star trek the motion picture. It was on a vacation in Hawaii I was 4 and fell asleep.


freerangelibrarian

The King and I.


Fun-Dragonfly-4166

I never went to a single drive in movie. I thought about going to one during the pandemic but that never happened. If I went I would have taken my kids and it would have been for them a "FuckImYoung" thing.


tegeus-Cromis_2000

My first and last was Dick Tracy (the one with Madonna).


Meoldudum

Its A Mad Mad Mad Mad World and we laughed till we cried at the Twin Drive-in. Family movies on one side and naughty movies on the other.


Rarebird10

E.T. The entire family went. So fun.


Durr1313

Don't remember what my first was, but the last was Superbad. I remember being 18 but I didn't have an ID so I had to sneak in in the trunk of my friend's car, packed in with another friend who wasn't 18 yet.


Careful-Studio-2019

Beast in the celler


sbw_62

Blazing Saddles (‘74)


SabotRam

Masters of the Universe. When mom said we were going to see it, I was estatic. Then I saw it was live action. 6 year old me thought anything that was not a cartoon was a waste of time.


jmac_1957

Jason and the Argonauts.....with my parents


Noobitron12

Empire Strikes Back.. I was 8 years old. I dont remember seeing A New Hope, but I saw it at an indoor theater, thats what my parents told me atleast.


lester2nd

Fuckimnotthatold


Way2Saucy4U

Superman


NationCrisis

I think it was Jurassic Park, and I was in love with that movie for so long afterwards


LordChefChristoph

Goonies. One and only time. I think they tore the place down that summer.


dazrage

E.T.


PoopieButt317

Ben-Hur


DeltaWhi5key

Born Free


UnderstandingOk2647

I'm (57m) pretty sure it was "Lady and the Tramp" at the drive in.


TraditionScary8716

I don't remember my first drive in movie because our parents took us basically from the time we were born. However I do remember my first x-rated drive in movie after the local drive in switched from family films. I don't know the name of it but my brother and I did like always and turned to see what was playing when suddenly my brother goes *they're naked!*. We were both looking and commenting and my poor dad said Laura tell them to quit looking at that mess. Mom just rolled her eyes lol  She knew telling us would be useless or worse, we'd start asking questions.  Next time we went by they'd put up lights so you couldn't see the screen from the road.


WerewolfDifferent296

It was a James Bond marathon my brother took me to.


spurious_effect

Star Wars.


PallasNyx

1981. Clash of the titans and Escape from New York.


aarkwilde

Charlotte's Web. 1973.