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The best part about this 'new' experience is that, contrary to years gone by where you watched the movie from within the confines of your car, now you can pull out your chairs and watch the movie under the stars. Fortunately, there were many movie goers who had set up big speakers and we were able to hear perfectly without having to use our car radio. I was greatly concern that my car battery was going to die if I did that. Now, you tune in from your car radio, but I'm still not sure how that works. Like another poster wrote, long gone are the days where you had a post and speakers.

Tickets are $10 per person, which I found to be extremely reasonable. There are two screens in the lot, and depending what movies you want to watch you to one or the other. On weekends they show three movies, and on weekdays two. I took my youngest daughter, who is 21 and had never been to a drive-in, and she was just as excited as I was. As a teen I lived fairly close to this drive-in and I remember trips with a car load of teens hiding in the back, going in for free. I was blown away when I learned that this drive-in was still in existence as I was under the impression that there were no drive-ins operating. For us, and the rest of the people there, it didn't bother us! The attendants are very good/transparent about this and told us at the 'gate' (where you buy tickets) you have the option to turn around if this bothers you. BE aware that if you see a 'darkly-lit' film (these tend to be horror films), it can be a little difficult to see them on the screen just due to lighting.It was a perfect time to stake out a spot (we were still, by no means, the first ones there). You can't buy tickets in advance/online, and we were seeing a Friday 8:30pm showing of a new horror movie, so we arrived around 7:30pm. GET to the drive-in around an hour early (although this somewhat depends on the movie/time).

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Paramount plays their movies' audio through FM radio stations, and if you want to avoid keeping your car on and letting the battery run low, a portable radio is a fantastic option.

BRING your own portable radio! I bought a cheap one off Amazon the day before and it was a life saver.

The attendants don't check your car so as long as you don't have the food in plain sight, you will be fine!

BRING your own food! There's an old-timey restaurant at the drive-in (it's cute and has '80s arcade games in it) but the food is very overpriced and the menu is limited (a most-likely microwaved cheese pizza and popcorn are the main staples).

Here are some of my big tips/takeaways from my experience at the drive-in:

We saw a wide variety of people - friends, families, couples - and it was very easy to both enter and leave. The drive-in has 'ridges' on the parking spaces so that everyone gets an equally elevated view of the screen.

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The movie started on-time and it was great to see that the drive-in (which has a huge lot) was nearly completely full on a Friday night. In short, it was amazing! It was so fun and everything was ran very smoothly. I saw that the Paramount Drive-In wasn't terribly far away (and was playing a decent horror movie) so we decided to go on a Friday night. My friend from out-of-state came to visit me in LA for the weekend and one of the things on his 'bucket list' was to see a drive-in movie.

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