Throwback Thursday: Drive Ins and 1984

Hey, it's waters from the waters wake up call.

Oh what a throwback Thursday we had this morning celebrating National Drive-In Movie Day and 1984

I was born in 75, 84 was the best year ever.

Not just the music, but have you looked at the list of movies from 1984?

Yeah, you know what the biggest movie of 84 was?

I've gotten Ghostbusters, I don't know.

Yeah, there was Ghostbusters, there was Beverly Hills Cop.

Yeah, there are literally like 50 movies you would look at and say, oh my god, that was all from the same year.

Romancing the Stone, Footloose.

My favorite movie ever, I love romance and the

song.

Kind of a

forgotten movie.

I remember seeing it in the theater as a matter of fact.

The soundtracks from those movies too.

Yeah, great music, great movies, great music from movies.

I got my boy, Putty, here with me.

We're headed to work.

He wants a song if possible.

So yeah, what can I play for you?

Man, healing.

I hope it's off 1984.

Animal.

Absolutely.

We're just driving through Dysart if you want me to find Carrie.

Yeah, find Carrie from Dysart please and get some coffee together.

Yeah, there you go.

When I was a kid, mom would pop up, pull high B, pull the popcorn, fill up the cooler, pull the pop, and we'd head to the drive-in.

Yeah.

And we'd

hide down in the heat with the blanket over so that mom and dad didn't have to pay for it.

You'd hide under a blanket so they could get in a little cheaper.

Yeah, so they never stuck us in the trunk.

I was just going to say, like my parents did.

And it's like the Quinn drive-in, the movie you were watching, and then behind you, the others that you could see the screen on.

But the other one would be R rated, and us kids would be staring at the one when the boob came on, you know, we were

like...

I was pretty young at one point, and it was a double feature.

It was a kids movie followed by an adult movie.

So we were supposed to watch the kids movie and fall asleep in the back of the station wagon.

We had sleeping bags.

But there was one point where I popped my head up, looked at the screen, and I had no idea what this couple was doing.

But I said to my mom, mom, what is that man doing to that lady?

And they were horrified.

I

have a lot of good memories going to the drive-in.

I wish we could get one back.

Let's all write a letter to our state representative.

And it is.

Done.

Boom.

It's good to write them a letter about anything else.

Maybe they'll act on that one.

Yeah, baby.

Ooh, fingers crossed.

Hey, buddy.

It's good to be in here every morning, man.

I grew up in the Quad City.

We had the Bel Air.

We had the Oasis.

That was the thing.

Popcorn at the drive-ins always seemed to be the best back in the 60s and 70s.

Why was that, you think?

Do you think they had something special they'd put in there, like some kind of magic dust or something?

I don't know if it's true, but I've heard they did a lot of that in the 60s.

I don't know.

Back in the day, we weren't so health-conscious back then.

in those days, you

know?

Right.

Cotton candy, caramel apples, hot dogs.

Plus you're young.

There you go,

yeah.

Yeah, you were young.

You didn't care.

You're gonna live forever, remember?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

In Bluegrass, Iowa, they've got two drive-ins out there that they put in.

Yeah.

So that's kind of nice.

But like, say, yeah, back in the day, I remember sneaking into the, you know, wait the drive-ins once in a while.

You know, have two people in the car and four packed in the trunk.

Right.

Wait a minute, you know?

Like, hey, wait, we only see two tickets.

Why is there, how'd you get six heads in there?

Yeah.

All they came from far over yonder, you know?

Right.

They're just visiting.

I think they'll party together.

They're just

visiting.

They got their own

car, somewhere over there.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, that's it.

Yeah, we parked in the back, bro.

You know, what do you help people back in

today?

Sure, sure.

I have a car along over

here.

What do

you do

with my daughter?

That's exactly right, yes.

That was the way, man, because I'll tell you, you go into the theater and that dope would shine a flashlight on you, but there was

none of that at the

drive-in.

Hell no, no.

Yeah.

Exactly.

Ah, to be young again.

Yeah, it'd be nice to be young again.

I do think it's a little differently, but, you know, hey, that's what it is.

But see, that's the problem, right?

It's fun to be young and dumb.

We've experienced now, and we'd be smarter back then, but then it'd just be like now.

There's

older and wiser.

Ignorance is bliss.

That's why it's great to be young.

That's a fact, now.

Yeah.

Well, hey, you have a blast today.

I enjoy listening to your show.

Well, thank you, man.

I appreciate you calling.

All right, take

care.

Well, Ivan, my daily call from Ivan.

How are you, Ivan?

I told you I was born in 84.

Oh, that's right.

And I was

talking about what a great year it was, but I'd forgotten

that you were

born.

I should have taken that in account.

I

know.

I'm old at heart, though.

Well, I was just saying,

you know, with you being born in 84, now that you're tainted a little bit.

I'm kidding.

I'm getting-

Boy, silence,

man.

I thought I'd

actually insulted Ivan for a minute.

I don't even- Yeah.

Big year for you.

My graduation.

High school graduation.

Big year for me.

Oh, my

goodness.

So I know you were telling me earlier, Ivan, that you were born September 3rd, 1984.

So, let's find something from September of 84 to play.

Let's find that out.

Okay.

I will.

All righty.

I'll be looking.

Then- If there

was

something-

released on Labor Day.

I was born Labor Day in

1984.

Labor Day Weekend.

I'll see what was big.

Labor Day

Weekend, 1984.

Yeah,

yeah.

All right, Ivan, I'm on it.

Take care.

Nice topic this morning.

I love it.

You must remember the drive-in theaters.

Oh, yeah.

When I was a kid, my parents took me to Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid and Pat and all the good stuff

and,

you know, the good one that had the Simon and Garfunkel soundtrack to it.

Graduate?

Yeah.

I got to see that when I was a kid.

That was wonderful.

But when I was, you know, I was older.

You know, we were when I was a lifeguard We used to get all the lifeguards from the pools together and we go with it like Twin West or something and hang out and drink a little bit and

Smooch, yes!

Oh, how inappropriate!

Well, don't ask me what the movie was, because I didn't care what the movie was, and Nor did my

date

with me,

so... Oh, my Virginia ears!

Well, yeah, well, who went to the drive-in to watch the movie?

Nobody.

Nobody?

Exactly!

And I am old enough to know about drive-in bedders.

Really?

Tell me

about

it, Grandpa!

Yeah, exactly!

Tell me about the good old days!

I do- do know one thing is driving theaters usually caught the tail end of a run of a movie, okay?

We'll start with that.

Right.

Right.

Second run, kinda.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So the first time I ever saw Star Wars was at a drive-in theater.

Oh, yeah.

Which is probably sacrilege to most Star Wars fans.

To

see it in a drive-in?

Yeah, to wait that long to see it.

Yeah, I

would have been laughing and pointing.

I would have been one

of those kids.

Well, to my credit, I was not a big Star Trek fan.

And I was afraid it was gonna be that so I just didn't want to go see it

you know for me when I before it came out I'd seen the the preview and it just looked like some kind of Space love story thing is what is what it seemed like and I thought that doesn't look good and Then

it

became huge and my friends were telling me about it.

It's like really it looked like a Romantic piece of crap.

I didn't want to see that I was 11.

I didn't want to see that but then

And

then

they'd explain it and it's like, oh, okay.

Well, I went and obviously loved it.

Well, yeah, that's the thing is once had seen it.

Yeah, it was amazing.

I went to the theater the first time around for Empire Strikes Back.

Weekday mornings, 5.30 to

10.