There are still bowling alleys but you can’t smoke in them anymore and if you decide to have a “discussion” about whether someone’s foot was over the line you are asked to leave. And the ones around here don’t sell pitchers of beer anymore. Who wants to bowl if you can’t smoke and drink cheap pitchers of icehouse beer?
Hahaha….Good point Gary. Perhaps it has gone down the same trail as “put-put”, Drive-in movies, and the slinky.
Oh yes…The good old days!
Probably one of the other reasons they get the axe so quick.
The Atlantic provinces are a bit more on the 'have-not' side of Canada. While I'm sure there were any number of cheap date nights, a large number of vehicles were families. Cheap entertainment, kids see movies that parents could never afford to take the whole family to. For people without air-conditioning, it was a godsend just to get out of the house. Bring your own snacks/drinks to save money, can take the youngest ones and just let them sleep while the rest are watching so no babysitter cost.... It was the Netflix equivalent of today. I'm not sure how many remained throughout Nova Scotia, but I know the one near where I lived made it until the mid-80s before shutting down. I don't remember half of what I saw, but I know that I saw Star Wars when it hit the drive in, not the theater. And as a young teen, Gone with the Wind was much more melodramatic up on the big screen. Because of how double and triple bills were done, I saw god's quantity of westerns and war movies that were not the main attraction.
Welk wasn't cool to even to us boomers!
Only uncomfortable to people who are afraid of people who think and ask questions. Art feeds the soul.
Hank III, time stamp 2:20. I saw him live in around the late '90s, was quite the show.
Now I got why 'Grandpa' keep saying, "Cars nowadays are useless at our times our cars were horses". He meant to say mules
