Good times at the 128 Drive-In playground
Long before Netflix or Hulu, my family would take our station wagon from Waltham to Burlington to visit an outdoor movie theater on the Burlington/Woburn line. There was a HUGE screen, a concession building and a playground for little kids (slides, swings and teeter-totters). The first movie was usually a kid-friendly one, followed by something for the grown-ups.
In this old home movie from the late 1960s, my mother is holding the camera while my father pushes Robert and I. When it started to get dark, we would head over for some popcorn and get ready for the movie. Funny thing is, my brother and I always fell asleep for the night while watching the movie. That’s why we’re in pajamas!
— Donna DeChiara
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I remember going to this Drive in
I also remember going to Kemps ham burger stand long before the value house was there and building 19 1/2
Kemps was the best
LOVED Kemps!
I loved going there. They had awesome movies. Wish they would come back. It was a great
place to bring the family on weekends.
The first part is rod sterling
His last name was Serling. Was there any movie star named Sterling, first or last name, in the mid 50s?
Sterling Hayden was one, and I believe an actress named Jan Sterling.
River over the Nile
Was near the crash at the drive in
You mean Storm over the Nile?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048662/
Brings back memories! Usually two featured were separated by a cartoon, and we would play on the swings and slides until the next feature. My dad would fill a big plastic bag with homemade popcorn and that’s what we had to snack on throughout. The first movie I remember seeing at the Burlington Drive-In was “The Magnificent Seven” in 1960, when I was five. Seeing the battles on such a big screen was priceless. Great memories!
Great memory!!
That great volume contraption hooked onto the window. The playground. Concession stand. Coming attractions. Those were the days!!
Herbie movies there were great as s child
Mountain Rd went thru to Cambridge St back then and there was a path under the power line that was just behind the drive in. I’m not saying that I did it but there were some who had the driver pay and the rest of us I mean them snuck in the back way.
Bill Howard
So it’s your fault they went out of business. I knew it.
Hay we all chipped in for the driver and car that had to count for something, it was no worse than having a date hide in the trunk and don’t forget the loose fence board on the Cook St side of the Pinehurst Drive-in every one knew that one too. Bill H
We all went to closing night … “Cry of the Banshee “ was the flick . I learned a valuable lesson there … don’t sneak in in the trunk with white jeans on !
This view is from the North to the South over the highway.
Just beyond the plot that became the drive is the somewhat oval/circular Kel-Town neighborhood of west Woburn.
Build in 1952.