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Life is Simple
Life is Simple
The Midwest Cattleman · September 15, 2022 · P5

Copyright 2022, towns of a certain size had at a buck per adult. my driver’s license, worked
Jerry Crownover least one drive-in theater to One of the fondest mem- up the nerve to ask a girl out
provide relatively cheap and ories of my childhood was on a date, and finally found
convenient entertainment. when my parents took me one that agreed to accompa-
I grew up in a very rural and a half-dozen other mem- ny me, the drive-in theater
area, but there was a drive- bers of the local 4-H club to ritual began. First, one had
in about twenty miles south the closest drive-in, to watch to arrive early (before dark)
of our home. If they weren’t Tomboy and the Champ, in order to find that coveted
showing a movie you want- a movie about a young girl space on the back row. Next,
ed to see, there was another showing a champion Angus you might have to move a
one about thirty miles north, steer at the Chicago Interna- couple of times before you
and yet another, about thirty tional Livestock Exposition. found a good quality speaker
miles east. Gas to get there For weeks after the event, it’s to hang on your car window.
was nineteen cents per gal- all any of us could talk about. Thirdly, once parked, with
lon and admission was about Later in life, when I earned continued on page 13

News was made this past
week, when one of the last A STEP AH E AD
remaining drive-in movie
theaters in the area an-
nounced that they would be THE ADVANTAGE
closing, permanently, at the
end of summer. Even though
I understand that technolo- Y O U C A N TRU S T
gy now allows us to click and
watch any movie we want, on
a giant screen TV, I still can’t
help but feel sorry for today’s
young people, missing out
on one of the greatest social
events of all times.
Sixty years ago, most

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