The theater will also have a selection of heated seats and blankets on hand to keep guests warm. According to a release, moviegoers can choose between Reel’s plush luxury recliners, its front-row love seat-style lounge chairs, or its privacy pods. The grand finale triple-feature at the old drive-in included “How to Score With Girls,” “Naughty Schoolgirls” and “The Carhops.”Īnd what became of Ronald Reagan, whose film had started it all at the Duwamish in 1948? In December 1980, he had just defeated Jimmy Carter and was about to become president.Culinary Khancepts, the hospitality group behind restaurants like State Fare Kitchen & Bar and Liberty Kitchen, will open two new dining establishments in the Woodlands’ Market Street area this July - and one that plots to elevate Houston’s moviegoing experience as we know it.Ĭulinary’s anticipated Reel Luxury Cinemas will boast five screens, complete with Dolby sound systems, but the next-level seating arrangements and dinner service will likely be what steals the show. “The Voice of the Turtle” and similar family-friendly cinematic fare were no longer on the bill.
But you can still relive at least part of the Duwamish experience with King County Parks’ Green River Trail that goes right along the river next to the remnants of the old poplars that used to separate the parking area from the river.īy the time of its closing in December 1980, the film offerings at the Duwamish had also changed somewhat since 1948. The old footprint of the Duwamish is mostly inaccessible nowadays and the old grounds are surrounded with “KEEP OUT” signs. The screen and concession stand were eventually torn down and replaced with a big Boeing office complex a few years after that. Newspaper schedules at the time said it had just closed for the season, but it never reopened. When the Duwamish Drive-In closed in December 1980, it did so without the fanfare of the 1948 grand opening. Though most local drive-ins have closed, there are still a few left operating around Puget Sound, including the Blue Fox Drive-In south of Oak Harbor on Whidbey Island the Wheel-In Motor Movie near Port Townsend and the Rodeo Drive-In near Port Orchard. It wasn’t about the crappy sound or the crappy food,” Miner said. You were mobile, or you were maybe taking a date down there. Miner also says those little speakers that were mounted on posts for the movie audio were pretty lousy, too. The hot dogs buns were dry, the hot dogs were wilted. “The pizza was just awful, like a piece of cardboard with tomato sauce on it. “One thing I really remember, the concession stand, the food was terrible,” Miner said. Other drive-ins that popped up around here in the postwar years include the Aurora in north Seattle the Eastside in south Kirkland the Sunset (where the Factoria Cinema is now located) the Kenmore the Puget Park in South Everett the Valley in Auburn the Samish in Bellingham the Thunderbird in Marysville and the Circus Drive-In on Highway 20 near Anacortes.Īnd though the drive-in phenomenon started happening before television began to really chip away at the movie industry in the 1950s, drive-ins continued to offer the privacy and escape from adult supervision that family living rooms did not.
The ad went on to promise the “world’s largest screen, baby bottle-warming service, individual speaker with own volume control,” and “no parking or dress-up problems.”ĭrive-ins theaters really took off after World War II as America’s famous “car culture” revved up and went full-throttle - with car radios playing popular music, drive-in restaurants serving hamburgers, and big suburban shopping centers like Northgate and Bellevue Square offering the convenience of huge parking lots.
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