If you ever went to see movies at the M-78 Drive-In, you more than likely did what almost everybody else did…..I’m not referring to sneaking friends in by the trunk of your car, but something else: paying to see one movie and making an attempt to catch a movie on the other screens afterward.
We’d park on one screen lot and then walk to the other lots to watch a different movie. You couldn’t hear it very well unless you had a car speaker, but we did it nevertheless.
The M-78 opened on Friday, November 7th, 1969 and was open year-round, thanks to in-car heaters. There were two screens at first, the Blue and the Red. The debut movies were Romeo & Juliet and Prudence & The Pill on the Blue screen and The Madwoman Of Chaillot and The Green Berets on the Red Screen.
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With the popularity of the M-78, a third screen was added in1977: the Green screen. Now we could pay for one movie and see three if we were clever enough…