For decades, drive-in theatres and North American youth culture went hand-in-hand, but as the 1970s faded, the culture changed and drive-ins began to disappear. Drive-ins may be few and far between today, but Sudbury.com readers have fond memories of those years when the drive-in was king
During the week following our previous column, I had the good fortune to be at the Lasalle Court Mall picking up pizza.
The memories of the Copper Cliff Drive-In, the first of the four to close, rests exclusively in our distant memory bank like a black-and-white film. The large white projector screen of this drive-in was built on a rise in the hill facing what is now Robinson Drive. The cars that were lined up in the drive-in lot not only had a great view of the movie, they also had a clear and unobstructed view of the three smokestacks of the INCO complex in nearby Copper Cliff.
Billy Hodben, a member of the Facebook group “Sudbury Then and Now,” posted a photo of a poster from the Copper Cliff Drive-in that advertised the chance for “the Ladies” to obtain a full set of imported cut glassware absolutely free by coming out to a show on weekdays. This appears to have been a way to attract couples and families to the movies on the slower nights of the week. What a far cry compared to the plastic cups that are “given away” at the theatre these days.
Clint Orton said he “spent so much time in there in the 1970s being smuggled in by parents and then basically being allowed to roam and meet up with friends and hang out.” Unlike the Copper Cliff Drive-In with its hills, empty fields and not much else , as time went on the LaSalle Drive-in began to be surrounded by houses and this led to ample opportunities for the local residents to take in a movie without leaving their property.
The drive-in even brought out the entrepreneurial spirit in some of the kids who frequented the lot. J. Roch Lalande related that he, his brother “and other local kids used to wash windshields for $0.25 there.” Chris Cee wrote that they “would go there after movies were finished and collect beer bottles,” which “helped fund first boat when was a kid.”
Rivalling the popcorn, soda and other tasty fare of the snack bar, the 69 Drive-In sold mosquito coils in their concession stand. Geoffrey Lee wrote that “prior to the film starting, they would say to buy some to not be bothered by mosquitoes.”
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