TEST YOUR AERIAL SKILLS (Level 2)
This was TWO of Monroe's better known landmarks.
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What are they?
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Hint: The four-lane highway in the foreground is US HWY 74 better known back in the day as "the boulevard". This aerial photograph was taken in the mid-fifties prior to the introduction of fast-food restaurants, super WalMarts, and multi-car families. Click on the picture to enlarge.
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Landmarks in this picture have been properly identified as Bundy's Drive-In Theater and Put-Put Golf Course. Click on "comments" under this post for more details.
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posted by Mystery Blogger @ 3:45 PM
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6 Comments:
RE: "photo taken in mid-50's"....I do rememer my parents taking us to the drive-in theater when we still had the old Oldsmobile car. I would have been about 7 or 8..so early/mid-50's..one younger brother at that time.
We'd take a big brown grocery bag full of popcorn, and my brother & I would fall asleep in the back seat, while my parents enjoyed the double feature...
Since I think one of the two landmarks you're talking about, to the right in the photo, is the "Putt-Putt" Miniature Golf Course......and I think that it was run by the Bundy family, then I'm thinking, MZ, that maybe that IS the Bundy Drive-In Theater next to it.
Was the other one, used more in high school days, the Monroe Drive-In?? (Or was there a "Starlight Drive-In"??
(Maybe we need some of the GUYS to jump in with some info on this one!)
Fun to see these aerial views.........
Thanks.
Marizell, your "passion pit" comment is 2-KOOL. I LOVE IT!
Mary Eda, did you and Marizell attend astronaut training together or at separate times?
YES!, this is the drive-in theater, hereinafter referred to as "the passion pit", and the put-put golf course.
I'm almost certain both of these establishments belonged to the Bundy family but...
maybe someone has more details?
Yes, I think the Bundy's were 'king and queen'or maybe 'his and hers' of the drive-ins!
I know this was way back, but isn't it sorta odd there are no cars on 74? Highway = some traffic, even in the old days.
BTW, why did John Gulledge take all these aerials?
I thought the Bundy's had a bowling alley and swimming pool beside or close to the drive-in theater. Maybe they came later if, indeed, this is Bundy's drive-in. I don't remember the putt putt course at all. I keep thinking there was another drive-in further down the road towards Charlotte but before the overpass.
I’ll join in for the sake of joining in but… I don’t have much information on drive-in theaters. It’s hard to find a girlfriend when you’re driving a junk-car, especially a junk-car equipped with a weak battery.
My big thrill back in those days was roller skating. I ruled the rinks - Hatley’s and the other one down in Camp Sutton.
Mr Hatley entered three of his best skaters in a statewide competition held in Concord – I’m thinking 1961? The kid I was skating against showed up with a monogrammed leather bag and pulled out a three-hundred dollar pair of roller skates. There I was, looking down at my rental-skates, thinking I might be in the wrong place.
He really physced me out when he started those funny stretching exercises but, as it turned out, Mr Hatley was right all along – the kid was all show and no go. I was out there skating circles around him – backwards! We hauled home a HUGE trophy and I still don’t know if it was due to my abilities or Mr Hatley’s pep talk.
Sorry guys, I know this has absolutely nothing to do with drive-in theaters or put-put golf but it’s the best I could do on such short notice.
I feel like you Marizell - would love to try to skate again and lots of other things like wind surfing...but...er...uh...not as young or as strong as we used to be :-) Would you believe (take note Jim) that I took roller skating in PE one semester at Meredith and could go under a limbo bar about 12" off the gym floor! :-)
Ok, Jim, imagine going UNDER with one skate upright and the other out to the side - sort of dragging the second skate under the bar. Cool - I can still remember doing this. Hee Hee...
Love it!!!!!!!!
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