  Chuckjav Member Username: Chuckjav Post Number: 477 Registered: 09-2007 |
Maybe I am imagining things.... Was there once a Drive-In Movie Lot in Oak Park? I seem to remember walking across Coolidge toward Greenfield....through a neighborhood, across a field to a Movie Drive-In (not far from Eight Mile). I must have been drawn to it by "I am Curious (Yellow)", during the summer of 1968. A pre-teen hormonal awakening...I reckon. | ||
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge Post Number: 5976 Registered: 10-2003 |
West Side Drive-In Theater. http://www.waterwinterwonderla nd.com/location.asp?id=79&type =1 Photos and information. | ||
Chuckjav Member Username: Chuckjav Post Number: 478 Registered: 09-2007 |
Thanks Johnlodge. | ||
Luckycar Member Username: Luckycar Post Number: 77 Registered: 02-2007 |
We were there the night of the 67 riots.They said there was a curfew for Detroiters,we lived in Oak Park so we stayed.The movie was the first Billy Jack movie,I think.The helicopters were taking off from the armory next door on 8 mile.My dad said they were practicing for Viet Nam.We soon left and found out from the radio what was going on. | ||
Terryh Member Username: Terryh Post Number: 721 Registered: 11-2006 |
I wonder if that is the same drive in featured in the movie Jacktown which has scenes filmed in and around Oakpark. | ||
56packman Member Username: 56packman Post Number: 2145 Registered: 12-2005 |
Luckycar--are you sure you didn't see "the born losers" at the drive-in, that was the first movie to feature the Billy Jack character, the movie "Billy Jack" didn't come out until 1971. | ||
Luckycar Member Username: Luckycar Post Number: 79 Registered: 02-2007 |
That would be the movie.Tom,Tim someone was the lead in those. | ||
65memories Member Username: 65memories Post Number: 555 Registered: 10-2003 |
When I was a little kid some 53 years ago, my parents would take us to the Westside Drive-In on 8 Mile. Before we went to the theatre, I remember we would go next door to a little amusement park called "Kiddieland." It was not part of the drive-in, but a separate attraction, with motorized boats, bumper cars, a merry-go-round and the like. Does anyone else remember Kiddieland? | ||
Chuckjav Member Username: Chuckjav Post Number: 479 Registered: 09-2007 |
65memories....I've heard others speak of the Kiddieland amusement park; the only Kiddieland I recall was the toy store at Coolidge and 9-Mile Road (next to Sander's Ice Cream). Oak Park was pretty cool - and a nice respite from Detroit following the '67 Riot; my family lived in Oak Park for 18 months ('67-'69)....then it was right back to the killing fields | ||
Steve Member Username: Steve Post Number: 213 Registered: 02-2006 |
I remember my parents taking me to Kiddieland amusement park, must have been 1957 or 1958. But I seem to recall it being on the Detroit side of 8 Mile, right across from Oak Park. Of course, the memories are vague. |
