drive-ins – The Coal Speaker

August 19, 2021 THE COAL SPEAKER

EPISODE 8: THE STILL THRIVING DRIVE IN, THE MAHONING

The best way to end our summer drive-in series than with the still opening and prospering Mahoning Drive-In Theater!

July 18, 2021 THE COAL SPEAKER

DRIVE-IN 2021 EPISODE 7: PORN PURVEYORS AND THE TOMB OF THE UNKNOWN DRIVE-INs

Some little vestiges of the past that remain are immensely beautiful.. The run down signs. Overgrown landscapes.. All of the little reminders of past summer nights with open air convertible filling their autos with the open air flicker of a movie projector in the middle of a dark field..

Here are some lesser known locations now overgrown by nature or paved over by landscapers.

July 15, 2021 THE COAL SPEAKER

DRIVE IN 2021 EPISODE 6: The lustful location: Warm milk at the XXX Pine Grove drive-in

Today.. Pine Grove Drive-In theater was located at 327 Suedberg Road on the site of today’s Providence Place Retirement Center.

The same location that was the scene of criminal probes, jury decisions, and showings of X-rated films so many years before…..

People driving through Fountain Springs during the 1980s and 1990s may recall some old graffiti.. Some scorned lover at the time used the old Hi-Way Drive-in sign along Route 61 to advertise his (or her?) love for Sandy.. To this day we don’t know who painted it.. we don’t know who Sandy was. And we will maybe never know if it was a match secured, or love lost.. Just photos remain now, with all remnants and memories of this once amazing drive-in forever forfeited to history.

This is the tale of the passion pit on route 61.