Some people have their fantasy baseball teams, football teams, etc...BLAH BLAH BLAH...

I've created my own fantasy Drive-In Theater.
Open rain or shine - 52 weeks a year.
A new double feature every week.
Check out the schedule or search for films by title.

WHERE DID ALL THESE IMAGES COME FROM?

In February of 1985, I was taking a tour of the Stadium Cinemas I & II in Bowling Green, Ohio. (Not knowing that this would become a place of employment for me 9 months later.) The manager led us through a storage area that contained a large pile of theater seats and other spare parts. Off to one side were 6 large cardboard boxes, each one stuffed with advertising material covering three decades of movie history (1950's - 70's). The sheets were 8x11" or 8x14" and contained the B&W clip art that newspapers required for their movie sections.
The manager had no desire to keep the material - small advertisements used for newspapers had little value compared to posters. For the next few weeks, I dragged one box at a time back to my dorm room. I sorted and indexed the advertisements for roughly one thousand movies. The sci-fi and horror ads I kept for myself, while all of the rest were donated to the BGSU Library of Popular Culture.

Many of the advertisements were yellow and folded when I received them, so I have touched them up to make them more presentable for the web. I just felt that these images were too cool to leave sitting in a closet. Enjoy!