![]() ![]() Screen #2 at the Skyline, on an unpaved gravel lot, sits right up next to the desert hills which, when night falls, attain a mysterious beauty that adds immeasurably to the drive-in experience here in Barstow. Looking into the sunset, the drive-in ambience becomes magical.įamilies and friends settle in for the pre-show fun and relaxation, as important a part of the drive-in experience as the movie itself. The Sklyline Drive-in sits in the middle of nowhere off Old Highway 58 a couple of miles out of town.Īs dusk approaches, the cars begin streaming in and the quiet desert hills fill up with the anticipation of a movie under a million stars. (Click on the pics for a bigger, better, brighter view.) I will do my best to reconstruct the piece and attach it to this post tomorrow, when and if I ever stop gritting my teeth. So rather than lose out on more sleep that I obvious need, I will just post the pictures and hope that they speak clearly enough of the relative sublime experience we all had under the millions of stars visible in the desert sky while Up unspooled in front of us on the Skyline's second screen. It's near midnight, and my attempt to try and rewrite the piece was greeted by a numb skull and insurmountable (at least for tonight) aggravation over the evaporation of an evening's worth of writing. OFF THE CUFF ON SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK, THE MOVIE AN.Ī series of escalating, multiplying frustrations have led, late on this Tuesday night, to the inexplicabnle disappearance from my Word program of 1,500 or so words I had written and prepared to go along with the photos I took this past weekend on a lovely family trip with the Southern California Drive-in Movie Society to the Skyline Drive-in Theater in Barstow, California.DOWN TO THE GRINDHOUSE: PLAGUE TOWN AND THE SINFUL.GRINDHOUSE REPORT FROM ROW THREE: PLAGUE OF THE SI.THREE NEW MOVIES: THE HIT, THE MISS AND THE RUNAWA.ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO SQUINT: TRANSFORMERS RE. ![]()
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