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Joe Dante circulated this Click Americana page from March 5, 2025. It’s a round-up of facts and insights about our American Drive-In Movie phenomenon — where it started, how it developed, and how its boosters thought it would never end.

There are photogenic images of Drive-Ins on view, but also a lot of shop talk from an article within the article — Charles R. Underbill Jr’s assessment of the state of all things Drive-In, from 1950. When WW2 ended there were only 60 of the things, but in five years over a thousand were constructed. Only a few hundred are left today.

And Michael McQuarrie, bless him, comes up with another rewarding link, one I’ll be going back to myself.

It’s from the Internet Archive and it’s simply called ‘The Tarantino Collection.’ It’s described as a collection of film reviews and writing, most of which appeared on the Beverly Cinema website. It says they were written between 1982 and 2022 … a goodly chunk of time.

Tarantino is always a good read — his tastes and knowledge are refined, and his comments are seldom predictable. His 3 or four pages on Bogdanovich’s  Targets were an excellent start.

There’s an index but you have to peck your way through the pages to find individual topics. We like it.

Thanks for reading! — Glenn Erickson