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Running one of Colorado's last drive-in movie theaters
5/23/2025 | 1m 54sVideo has Closed Captions
Running one of Colorado's last drive-in movie theaters
Running one of Colorado's last drive-in movie theaters. Video: Cormac McCrimmon.
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Running one of Colorado's last drive-in movie theaters
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Running one of Colorado's last drive-in movie theaters. Video: Cormac McCrimmon.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipthe big reason the drive ins have disappeare is the land, the cost of land.
You get offered probably what a Drive-In would make in 5 or 10 years.
In one go.
There's not a lot of kids my age, so mid 30s, 40s who wanted to take on their parents business.
Hi, guys.
Hey.
How's it going?
Good.
How are you?
Oh, the cutest puppies ever.
Yeah, we have the birthday.
Perfect.
Are In 197 my stepdad, West Webb acquired the drive in we've always run it as a family.
Let's.
Good.
I think you do that.
we run two movies on each side every single night.
Last year I drove, roughly 44,000 miles to driv all over the course of a year.
the numbers definitely declining every year here.
when I go to you in Idaho on a regular basis, they shut down last year and that was that was a hard one for me.
And then I lost another one in Idaho this year, which is, you know, friends, you probably won't see as much anymore, you know, Und.
You can go watch a movie anywhere.
You can watch it at your house, you can watch it in your car you can watch it on your roof.
Wherever you have an iPhone, wherever you have an iPad.
there's something different that we have here.
It's not just go watch a movie, get your popcorn.
It is a whole evening, a whole experience, we just finish a big rush you stand up on the roof and you see everybody sitting in their cars watching the movie, and you're just like, yeah you just made 1800, 2000, 2500, people like, the happiest they've ever been.
Those are the best nights.
burning the plane.
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