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Outdoor Movies at the Drive-In Are Not a Thing of the Past in Missouri

By on January 13, 2009 in Drive-in Movie Theaters, Outdoor Movie Events

Outdoor Movies at Drive-In Theaters of MissouriOutdoor movies at a drive-in movie theaters are a thing of the past, or are they? is still home to many operating drive-in movie theaters, and the perfect time to visit is during the summer. Besides the nostalgia of visiting a Drive-In theater, they are much cheaper than traditional movie theaters! Admission to many of the outdoor movies are free or very low priced for children, and the concession stands feature great food at prices hard to beat. Many of the outdoor cinemas also present double features- so you get two movies for the price of one! The actual days each that drive in plays movies varies, but it’s safe to say that they are all open on Friday and Saturday. The Drive-In theaters in play first run outdoor movies like Pirates of the Caribbean, Spiderman 3, and Shrek 3- so you don’t have to worry about paying to see an old movie!

The 19 Drive-In is located in , Missouri and has a single screen with room for up to 250 cars. The Drive-In is open from March through October, and has some traditional speakers as well as FM tuning for sound. The -19 Drive-In serves many refreshments for much less than you would expect; a hot dog is only $0.75! Admission to the -19 Drive-In is $7 for adults 11 and over, and $4 for children.

The Route 66 Drive-In is located in , Missouri and features a double feature outdoor movie every night they are open. The outdoor cinema is open from April through September, and has both traditional speakers as well as FM tuning for sound. The Route 66 Drive-In has a concession stand, playground, and an open field area for playing Frisbee and other games. Admission is a bargain at $6 for adults and $3 for children, especially since you get to see two movies!

The Barco Drive-In is located in , Missouri and can accommodate 400 cars. The Barco Drive-In is open from April through October and features only FM tuning for sound. Admission to the outdoor movies is $5 for adults and $2 for kids.

Source: “Drive-In Movie Theaters in Missouri: A Nostalgic Way to Spend a Summer Evening” by Chloe Xanthis. Read full article at: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/259406/drivein_movie_theaters_in_missouri.html.

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Guantanamo Bay, Cuba: Outdoor Movies Boost Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR) at 'Gitmo' Military Base

By on December 2, 2008 in Military (MWR), Outdoor Movie Events

Guantanamo, Cuba: Outdoor Movies Boost Morale, Welfare and Recreation at Gitmo Military Base This is not your typical deployment location in the war on terror. Troops here get to scuba dive in their off time and have an assortment of restaurants and bars to unwind in at the end of long days spent guarding enemy combatants.

The troops who manage the detention facility here belong to Joint Task Force Guantanamo. They’re deployed for varying tour lengths from all services, both active and reserve components.

“They come here on deployment, and they’re actually coming to a place that is not as bad as (many) deployments,” said Navy Capt. Leslie J. McCoy, commander of the naval base.

JTF Guantanamo is a tenant organization on the base. The 2,200 JTF personnel live alongside the roughly 9,000 permanent-party sailors, family members, U.S. government civilians and contractors, and third-country nationals who reside and work here.

Sailors assigned to the base typically come for three-year tours and can bring their families. Deployment length for troops assigned to JTF Guantanamo depends on their service. Soldiers typically deploy for one year, Marines and sailors for six months, and airmen for four-month stints.

Living conditions vary considerably within the JTF. Enlisted servicemembers generally live in prefabricated individual buildings, which they call “houses” with a touch of cynicism. The shipping-container-like quarters each house four to six servicemembers. The troops typically divide the space as evenly as possible and then partition “rooms” by hanging blankets and shower curtains.

Each building contains a bathroom with a toilet and a sink. And men’s and women’s community latrines, with showers, sinks and toilet stalls, are located within each group of quarters.

Senior enlisted members and officers generally live in converted Navy family housing left over from when the base housed a larger population of permanent- party personnel. For instance, one two-bedroom apartment might be assigned to four junior officers.

Troops live and work together here depending on what their jobs are, but irrespective of their service. “I think it’s an important part of how they form as a team to that they can do their mission here in the JTF,” said Army Brig. Gen. Jay Hood, commander of JTF Guantanamo. “We have members assigned to the JTF that have come from assignments around the world, and so it’s important that we allow them to live and work together and know each other and build as a team.”

Living conditions for the servicemembers have improved considerably since the military began sending prisoners here more than three years ago. “If you go back and look at early pictures of the JTF, our troopers were all living in tents, eating out of temporary dining facilities,” Hood said.

And officials continue to seek ways to improve living conditions. “Ideally what we’d like to do is have them all housed in barracks, so we’re now looking at plans to do that,” McCoy said. “We’re trying to take as best care of (the JTF troops) as we can to ensure their quality of life is good. And part of that is to ensure they live in good rooms, good barracks or houses wherever they are.”

“Gitmo” also is loaded with morale, welfare and recreation facilities and opportunities. Servicemembers can rent boats and fishing equipment, become certified in scuba diving, or spend their time off snorkeling and watching the vast array of aquatic wildlife that fills the crystal-clear waters of the bay and surrounding Caribbean Sea.

Aside from water sports, the base features a golf course — troops generally play with hot-pink balls because white balls are too easy to lose in the gray desert landscape — a brand-new miniature golf course, several gyms and outdoor sports fields, and two outdoor movie theaters. Considering the year-round warm weather and scant rainfall — it rains only about three to five times a year here — movies rarely are cancelled.

“They come to a small community. We provide a sense of normalcy for those who are (deployed) here,” McCoy said. “They can come to our churches; they can take part in our college programs (and) the MWR facilities.”

In turn, the captain explained, the base gets a lot from the JTF members deployed here. Since nearly 70 percent of Joint Task Force Guantanamo is made up of reserve-component members, they bring a lot of civilian-acquired skills with them.

“We get people here who are teachers, people who have different functions in their towns that they bring to Guantanamo Bay,” McCoy said. “So actually the synergy that we have with the joint task force works out very well. We help support one another.”

Source: http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=25798
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Outdoor Movies

Outdoor movies and inflatable movie screens have been appearing in locations all around the world. Over time we will be adding links to articles about outdoor movies and open air cinema events. These articles are listed according to the country where the inflatable movie screen has been set up or the country where the outdoor movie event takes place.

A

B

C

D

E

  • East Timor – Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste
  • Ecuador – Republic of Ecuador
  • Egypt – Arab Republic of Egypt
  • El Salvador – Republic of El Salvador
  • Equatorial Guinea – Republic of Equatorial Guinea
  • Eritrea – State of Eritrea
  • Estonia – Republic of Estonia
  • Ethiopia – Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

F

  • Falkland Islands (UK overseas territory)
  • Faroe Islands (Self-governing country in the Kingdom of Denmark)
  • Fiji – Republic of the Fiji Islands
  • Finland – Republic of Finland
  • France – French Republic
  • French Polynesia (French overseas collectivity)

G

H

I

J

  • Jamaica
  • Japan
  • Jersey – Bailiwick of Jersey (British Crown dependency)
  • Jordan – Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

K

  • Kazakhstan – Republic of Kazakhstan
  • Kenya – Republic of Kenya
  • Kiribati – Republic of Kiribati
  • Korea, North – Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
  • Korea, South – Republic of Korea
  • Kosovo – Republic of Kosovo
  • Kuwait – State of Kuwait
  • Kyrgyzstan – Kyrgyz Republic

L

  • Laos – Lao People’s Democratic Republic
  • Latvia – Republic of Latvia
  • Lebanon – Republic of Lebanon
  • Lesotho – Kingdom of Lesotho
  • Liberia – Republic of Liberia
  • Libya – Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
  • Liechtenstein – Principality of Liechtenstein
  • Lithuania – Republic of Lithuania
  • Luxembourg – Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

M

  • Macao – Macao Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China (Area of special sovereignty)
  • Macedonia – Republic of Macedonia
  • Madagascar – Republic of Madagascar
  • Malawi – Republic of Malawi
  • Malaysia
  • Maldives – Republic of Maldives
  • Mali – Republic of Mali
  • Malta – Republic of Malta
  • Marshall Islands – Republic of the Marshall Islands
  • Mauritania – Islamic Republic of Mauritania
  • Mauritius – Republic of Mauritius
  • Mayotte – Departmental Collectivity of Mayotte (French overseas collectivity)
  • Mexico – United Mexican States
  • Micronesia – Federated States of Micronesia
  • Moldova – Republic of Moldova
  • Monaco – Principality of Monaco
  • Mongolia
  • Montenegro
  • (UK overseas territory)
  • Morocco – Kingdom of Morocco
  • Mozambique – Republic of Mozambique
  • For “Myanmar”, see Burma

N

  • Nagorno-Karabakh – Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (Artsakh)
  • Namibia – Republic of Namibia
  • Nauru – Republic of Nauru
  • Nepal – Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal
  • Netherlands – Kingdom of the Netherlands
  • Netherlands Antilles (Self-governing country in the Kingdom of the Netherlands)
  • New Caledonia – Territory of New Caledonia and Dependencies (French community sui generis)
  • New Zealand
  • Nicaragua – Republic of Nicaragua
  • Niger – Republic of Niger
  • Nigeria – Federal Republic of Nigeria
  • Niue (Associated state of New Zealand)
  • Norfolk Island – Territory of Norfolk Island (Australian overseas territory)
  • Northern Cyprus – Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
  • Northern Mariana Islands – Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (US commonwealth)
  • For “North Korea”, see Korea, North
  • Norway – Kingdom of Norway

O

  • Oman – Sultanate of Oman

P

  • Pakistan – Islamic Republic of Pakistan
  • Palau – Republic of Palau
  • Palestine – Palestinian Territories
  • Panama – Republic of Panama
  • Papua New Guinea – Independent State of Papua New Guinea
  • Paraguay – Republic of Paraguay
  • For “People’s Republic of China”, see China
  • Peru – Republic of Peru
  • Philippines – Republic of the Philippines
  • – Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie, and Oeno Islands (UK overseas territory)
  • Poland – Republic of Poland
  • Portugal – Portuguese Republic
  • For “Pridnestrovie”, see Transnistria
  • Puerto Rico – Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (US commonwealth)

Q

R

S

T

  • Taiwan – Republic of China
  • Tajikistan – Republic of Tajikistan
  • Tanzania – United Republic of Tanzania
  • Thailand – Kingdom of Thailand
  • For “Timor-Leste”, see East Timor
  • Togo – Togolese Republic
  • Tokelau (Overseas territory of New Zealand)
  • Tonga – Kingdom of Tonga
  • Transnistria – Transnistrian Moldovan Republic
  • Trinidad and Tobago – Republic of Trinidad and Tobago
  • (Dependency of the UK overseas territory of Saint Helena)
  • Tunisia – Tunisian Republic
  • Turkey – Republic of Turkey
  • Turkmenistan
  • Turks and Caicos Islands (UK overseas territory)
  • Tuvalu

U

V

  • Vanuatu – Republic of Vanuatu
  • Vatican City – State of the Vatican City
  • Venezuela – Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
  • Vietnam – Socialist Republic of Vietnam
  • Virgin Islands, British – British Virgin Islands (UK overseas territory)
  • Virgin Islands, United States – United States Virgin Islands (US organized territory)

W

  • Wallis and Futuna – Territory of Wallis and Futuna Islands (French overseas collectivity)
  • Western Sahara – Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic

Y

  • Yemen – Republic of Yemen

Z

  • For “Zaire”, see Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Zambia – Republic of Zambia
  • Zimbabwe – Republic of Zimbabwe
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