Flag day weekend!

 

Thanks to my pals Tom and Raul for getting me around the last few days! The doctor said things looked Excellent today 😁 We hit the reopened Branding Iron (same recipes). I haven't been there since the days I watched Bozo's circus and the Rookies (seeing Mrs. Danko soon). They had the original donut holes, long before munchkins at DD. Their ribs are famous too! #legendary #brandingiron

It doesn't get any better than a Beautiful Fall Day and The Patio on the patio!

The Patio

The Patio

The Patio

Culvers Monday! They remodeled..

Sunday breakfast with Josh

Saturday night!

The View

Fun seeing a legend again tonight! Billy Williams

DRIVE-IN

 

 I have been getting back into the DRIVE-IN again and researching the two that we went to as a family:  The STARLITE DRIVE-IN (Chicago Ridge, IL) where the Chicago Ridge Mall now stands and the SHERIDAN DRIVE-IN (Bridgeview, IL) that stood around 77th and Harlem Avenue behind HAUNTED TRAILS, where a school and strip mall are now.  The SHERIDAN was the coolest...complete with a park underneath the screen, decorated by wood cut cartoon characters.  I remember seeing all of the classic Disney films there with WOODY WOODPECKER cartoons, ZORRO and many more!  I remember seeing THE BAD NEWS BEARS GO TO JAPAN at the drive-in with a KISS live film too :)

 

Dennis is making a lighted post for my speaker/sign and will post some pictures, when he is finished.  I wanted something unique.

 

The SHERIDAN and STARLITE are long gone!  I will have to make it out to the CASCADE or the McHENRY OUTDOOR THEATER sometime in the near future.   The DRIVE-IN was such a cool and unique experience.  I am glad I have many of the INTERMISSIONS and commercials on DVDs now.  The problem with going to the DRIVE-IN or any theaters now, is the films they show.  If it is a family film, it is sub-par to the films we saw at the DRIVE-IN years ago and if it is an Adult film,  it is also sub-par.  Modern entertainment today = SUCKS!