tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1406088964942152547.post1845621397536073973..comments2024-03-28T21:31:47.191-04:00Comments on The Abode of McThag: Lost AmericanaAngus McThaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09295013525738248801noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1406088964942152547.post-62410404473932125482022-01-10T08:44:35.374-05:002022-01-10T08:44:35.374-05:00I spent many, many nights in a drive-in as a kid. ...I spent many, many nights in a drive-in as a kid. They've been dying off for a long time. Yet another part of Americana that has gone away.<br /><br /><i>It's partially our fault, we didn't go in the past 13 years.</i> Maybe partially like 1 part per million - .001%.<br /><br />Like every other instance I can think of, there's nothing that any one person could do to keep a business like that drive-in open.<br /><br />SiGraybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1406088964942152547.post-43926333970287534162022-01-10T07:17:39.997-05:002022-01-10T07:17:39.997-05:00drive-ins died of cultural change. people forgot h...drive-ins died of cultural change. people forgot how to act in public and the experience became rather unpleasant. kids running around like hooligans screaming and doing everything but watching the movie, idiots driving up and down the line with headlights on blaring boom-boom "music", fights at the concession stand. its a shame. i don't go to the movies at all any more for the same reasons. its funny, anywhere else you can't get people to talk, too busy staring at their phones. movie comes on, they think its a grand time to have a chat. riverriderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14198514937704741211noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1406088964942152547.post-42481204383710807212022-01-10T06:52:30.266-05:002022-01-10T06:52:30.266-05:00Land cost is what killed many winter grown ag fiel...Land cost is what killed many winter grown ag fields in the Texas RGV. Hard freezes in '83 and '89 devastated citrus groves, and rather than plant another and know the future possibility, they cashed in their chips. Now we get multiple Wal-Marts - Targets and such. The place has no resemblance whatsoever to the past I grew up in. Damn it - Joni Mitchell called it right.<br /><br />jrgAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com