1948 Drive-In Speakers

[baron-waste.livejournal.com]

Y' suppose I could find a couple of these on eBay?

I MUST mount these in my car for stereo sound. Absolute tonal fidelity! Adjust the volume as desired!

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[crabofdoom.livejournal.com]

Sigh. I spent many a weekend evening at drive-ins as a kid. It's pretty cool to see that the speakers' design hasn't varied too much over the decades. I can still feel the 'hammered' texture on the ones the Dixie Drive-In had in Dayton, OH. I loved getting to be the one to hang it on the window and adjust the knob. You want to hear the movie? You WILL share the popcorn...

[fynoda.livejournal.com]

There is a really small town in Wisconsin call Blue Mounds. (The more you know!)

Google Fu

[baron-waste.livejournal.com]

“The Blue Mound Drive-In Theater, located at 161st and Bluemound Road in Brookfield, was the first of its kind in Wisconsin. It opened in 1939 and showed its last movie in the summer of 1981. The theater was torn down in the summer of 1982 to make room for an executive center next to Brookfield Square.”

Re: Google Fu

[meezergal.livejournal.com]

I remember that movie theater!

[meleth.livejournal.com]

That would improve my TV watching experience 1000%. Especially sf. Do we really need the constant hum of the engines? I think not.

[beetle-breath.livejournal.com]

that would be brilliant for those movies where the dialogue is practically a whispering mumble, but the music is as loud as an atom bomb

[baron-waste.livejournal.com]

There was a wonderful scene in the BBC production of Gormenghast (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0197154/) that was absolutely wrecked by that. Ian Richardson and Neve McIntosh as estranged father and daughter rediscovering each others' existence… and their every word was swallowed and almost obliterated by the “background” music. If it weren't for the subtitles on the DVD, their dialogue would have been impossible to follow.

Dough heads.

[farranger.livejournal.com]

I remember those! I also remember how sometimes people would forget they were on their windows and drive away, shattering the glass.

[clamnebula.livejournal.com]

Besides eBay, you can find vintage drive-in speakers for sale here - http://www.driveinmemories.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=3

[agent13.livejournal.com]

http://www.drive-ins.com/ used to sell a pair with the stand that connected to your computer via USB to use as computer speakers. Sadly, while the site is still active, it looks like their store is no longer a going concern.

[amyangel96.livejournal.com]

The local drive in is now only broadcasting the sound on a radio frequency, they still have the old speakers but they're not working apparently. I've not been there in ages. I really should go - first run movies, usually 2 but occasionally 3 of them in a row, for $4 per person. It's usually only the last movie of the night I want to see, though. Kids/family movie first, followed (if there's enough time early and late in season when it gets dark early) by a romantic comedy or something else in-between, with the horror or action movie last.