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Where Are You, My Little Bijou?(Drive-in theaters)
Byline: Dutch Mandel
I don't know if it's the ``good-ol'-boys''-NASCAR-all-the-time policy shift, but I thought about how much I missed Bruce Dern in my Saturday night living room during the former Speedvision Network's The Lost Drive-In television show. Not that I yearned for the slow-talking semi-wacko himself; what I miss is the romance of drive-in theaters. My little Bijou, where have you gone?
Remember as a child stacking blankets in the back of a Rambler American, squeezing into bright-blue flammable rayon pajamas, just giddy with the chance to see The Incredible Mr. Limpet through fogging windows? Or perhaps those very memories are from when you were a teen? There was no greater joy than spending family time huddled around a box of Jujubees and a six-pack of Coca-Cola, trying to decipher the gibberish that came from the hopeless little speaker that couldn't.
How to explain this cultural phenomenon to anthropologists 10,000 years hence, that drive-in movie theaters at the height of their popularity were the last institution of innocence in this snapshot of mankind? Sure, drive-ins are famous as locations of amorous teen behavior, but even in their heyday the greatest danger in necking was getting a hickey, getting caught or getting pregnant, not the diagnosis of a lethal STD.
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Source: HighBeam Research, Where Are You, My Little Bijou?(Drive-in theaters)