Memphis Drive-Out

Inspired by this BFD discussion, I decided to compile my own list of "Real Cleveland" landmarks - those places you aren't likely to take your chic out-of-town guests (if you want to impress them).

And thus I found that yet another icon of my childhood has dissolved into history. I'm sure that I would have known about this sooner, had my parents not been in England lo these last few weeks. Cleveland loses an historic drive-in theatre, but it gains a larger corporate park complete with a Starbucks. Yahoo!

I can't say I'm too surprised - who cares about drive-in theatres anymore, after all. But that was precisely what I loved about it. There you are, driving around in a clearly urban environment, and poof, how weird, a drive-in. Très bizarre!

Well, at least I'll have my memories of being curled up in my Miss Piggy sleeping bag in the back seat of our Ford Fairmont, while my sister threw popcorn in my hair until I shrieked for mercy, watching Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, or maybe Raiders of the Lost Ark.