Barstow has minimal light pollution so any time we get a chance to sit out and watch the night sky we do. We didn't have to sit through previews and enjoyed some fun retro drive in commercials for the snack bar and snack items. Lawn chairs are alllowed outside of cars. The owner/ manager is friendly, funny and easy on the eyes. On the night we went the other patrons were quiet and coureous. Outside food is allowed in but there is an excellent snack bar with a large variety of options. The poor bastard will see them soon enough.Budget friendly ($10 each for a double feature!). No point mentioning those bats, I thought. "It's your turn to drive." I hit the brakes and aimed the Great Red Shark toward the shoulder of the highway. "What the hell are you yelling about," he muttered, staring up at the sun with his eyes closed and covered with wraparound Spanish sunglasses. My attorney had taken his shirt off and was pouring beer on his chest, to facilitate the tanning process. And a voice was screaming: "Holy Jesus! What are these goddamn animals?" "And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about 100 miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas. I remember saying something like, "I feel a bit lightheaded maybe you should drive. We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. Southern California Drive-in Movie Society member Warren Myers provides some background on the history of the Skyline Drive-in and a video tour of the theater during the club's July 20 visit. (Photo by Sal Gomez)Īnd screen #2 provides a pleasing lack of light distraction as the movie casts its spell under the desert darkness. The Lord hits the lights and the show gets underway.īarstow city lights take on a shimmering beauty as seen flickering behind screen #1. The Skyline Drive-in snack bar is an inviting oasis of delicious treats and community camaraderie that has something for everyone, a quaint throwback to great rural drive-in snack bars of the past. Screen #2 at the Skyline, on an unpaved gravel lot, sits right up next to the desert hills which, when night falls, attain a mysterious beauty that adds immeasurably to the drive-in experience here in Barstow. Looking into the sunset, the drive-in ambience becomes magical.įamilies and friends settle in for the pre-show fun and relaxation, as important a part of the drive-in experience as the movie itself. The Sklyline Drive-in sits in the middle of nowhere off Old Highway 58 a couple of miles out of town.Īs dusk approaches, the cars begin streaming in and the quiet desert hills fill up with the anticipation of a movie under a million stars. (Click on the pics for a bigger, better, brighter view.) I will do my best to reconstruct the piece and attach it to this post tomorrow, when and if I ever stop gritting my teeth. So rather than lose out on more sleep that I obvious need, I will just post the pictures and hope that they speak clearly enough of the relative sublime experience we all had under the millions of stars visible in the desert sky while Up unspooled in front of us on the Skyline's second screen. It's near midnight, and my attempt to try and rewrite the piece was greeted by a numb skull and insurmountable (at least for tonight) aggravation over the evaporation of an evening's worth of writing. OFF THE CUFF ON SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK, THE MOVIE AN.Ī series of escalating, multiplying frustrations have led, late on this Tuesday night, to the inexplicabnle disappearance from my Word program of 1,500 or so words I had written and prepared to go along with the photos I took this past weekend on a lovely family trip with the Southern California Drive-in Movie Society to the Skyline Drive-in Theater in Barstow, California.DOWN TO THE GRINDHOUSE: PLAGUE TOWN AND THE SINFUL.GRINDHOUSE REPORT FROM ROW THREE: PLAGUE OF THE SI.THREE NEW MOVIES: THE HIT, THE MISS AND THE RUNAWA.ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO SQUINT: TRANSFORMERS RE.RETURN ENGAGEMENT, WITH FUNNY OUTTAKES: MIKE GILBE."SUSPENDED BETWEEN WORLDS": SHINING STAR: THE ANNA.
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