[Leica] Van-Del Drive-In Theatre

[chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com (Christopher Crawford)]

Thanks, Gerry.

Funnel ball is a playground game. A metal or plastic basket is mounted high 
on a pole. It has three or four holes in the sides at the bottom of the 
basket. Players throw a ball (a basketball is usually used) into the top of 
the funnel. The ball will come out one of the holes, which are usually 
numbered. The number on the hole the ball emerges from is the number of 
points the player gets. There is an element of skill (throwing the ball into 
the high basket) and luck (which hole the ball comes out of is basically all 
chance) in it.

Drive-Ins were once very popular in the US, especially in the 1950s and 
1960s. They were still relatively common even in the early 1980s, when I was 
very young (I was born in 1975). I remember going to drive-in theatres in 
Fort Wayne with my parents, who owned a 1971 Chevrolet Malibu Convertible. 
Drive-ins don't really work well with hardtop cars, a convertible makes 
seeing the screen much easier! Convertibles are no longer common, and I 
think that?s one of the reasons drive-ins have declined.

There used to be two drive-in theatres in the part of Fort Wayne where I 
grew up. There may have been others in the city, I'm not sure. Fort Wayne is 
a large city and the two drive-ins that I knew both closed and were 
demolished when I was around 10 years old. They seem to have completely 
disappeared from big cities, but many of them are still open in small towns. 
The Van-Del is one of four that I know of that are still open within an hour 
drive of Fort Wayne. The other three are in Indiana. They're only open in 
the summer, since we have very harsh winters in the American Midwest. A 
couple weeks ago, we had several days of below-zero temperatures!


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?On 2/15/19, 5:31 AM, "LUG on behalf of Gerry Walden via LUG" 
<lug-bounces+chris=chriscrawfordphoto.com at leica-users.org on behalf of 
lug at leica-users.org> wrote:

    Chris
    
    There is something about this image which lifts it to a new level. 
Drive-In movie theatres have never really arrive in this country (probably 
because of the weather, so this image shows something of which I know very 
little, and I have even less idea what a ?funnel ball goal? is. I think that 
the starkness of the white against the background is great, and the work of 
William Eccleston comes to mind. Well seen!
    
    Gerry
    
    Gerry Walden
    023 8046 3076
    0797 287 7932
    
    > On 14 Feb 2019, at 21:04, Christopher Crawford <chris at 
chriscrawfordphoto.com> wrote:
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    > There are still a lot of old drive-in movie theatres operating in the 
midwest's small towns.
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    > This is the Van-Del Drive-In, located just outside the small town of 
Middle Point, Ohio. The name comes from the fact that it is located about 
halfway between the towns of Van Wert and Delphos.
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    > http://chriscrawfordphoto.com/chris-details.php?product=3076
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    > Chris Crawford
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    > Fine Art Photography
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    > Fort Wayne, Indiana
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    > 260-437-8990
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    > http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com  My portfolio
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    > http://www.facebook.com/pages/Christopher-Crawford/48229272798
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