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Catherine , of all, Congratulations on your upcoming marriage, may you have many years of happiness and blessings ...
I was raised in Long Beach CA. Where in CA did you live? I don't miss it all as the city had changed so much especially the downtown area. I was there in a great 60's the Beach Boys era .... Sun, Surfing and bleached blondes ;-) !! A lot of fun times but now the beach area where we hung out has a big parking alot, bicycle and skating paths that pretty much ruined it for me. We lived near Pacific Coast Hwy and there was a drive-in called the Circle and it was on a circle right near Long Beach Memorial Hospital. I can remember being in the hospital and I was able to see the screen of the drive-in I would watch the movies but of course no sound. At least it was good because back in those days they didn't have TV's in the room, pretty boring just reading old mags and comic books. I was about 12 I think and had my tonsils taken out but had some infection or something so I was there for about 2 boring weeks but at least I got a lot if ice cream and marshmallow green jello and at nite watching silent movies!!

I do remember a Quik Mart (?) across the street where I worked at the old Sheriffs dept on Mission/Silverbell. Don't know if its still there I do know they built as bigger convienence store further south on Mission Rd, I think about 36th St.
Don't know the name of it but it had like a drive-thru burger jointI on the backside. I do remember a Dairy Queen on Alvernon by the Cactus drive-in . When we do visit Tucson we don't really go much on the east side so it's probably changed quite a bit like sadly like most of the town.
Oh, you wrote about drive-ins turning into churches and swap meets.
That Circle Drive-In I wrote about also was a church, I believe even while it still showed movies at nite. My Mom use to takes us all to a regular Sunday school and church but my Dad didn't go with us. But we found out later that he use to get up earlt on Sunday mornings and would go to that drive-in church in his work truck, he ran his owner home service repair and worked hard to support our large family and I think all he ever wore was work clothes and I don't think he had any dress clothes so he may have felt bad to go in the church so he'd go to the drive-in church, it still makes me feel sad because he very rarely spent money on himself everything was for his family, at the time there was 8 of us kids.

I didn't know there was a drive-in theater in Mesa? We use to go there a lot since some of my family live there and also in Tempe, Chandler and Apache Junction. And we had a small cabin up in Payson and there use to be a Jack-in-Box in Mesa just before the Beeline Hwy on our way to Payson we'd stop at to load up on taco's and onion rings.
Boy!! I wish we would have hung on to our place a bit longer before selling it as Payson grew so much we'd have got more money for it. But I really don't like how Payson has grown its just not the same little place.
-Deb K
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