The video of the day is a delightful documentary short by Tansy Michaud and Adam Carboni called Enjoy Your Intermission. They posted on their Facebook page, “see ya in March, Snow banks permitting”. The drive-in closed for the 2017 season after Columbus Day weekend. Too bad the lengthy, incisive article I referenced then is gone now. I wrote about Roger and the Hi-Way back in October 2013, when he was still deciding whether to get a loan to buy some projectors. In January that year, Roger told the Kingston Daily Freeman, “We have no plans on shutting the drive-in down, none whatsoever.” After donation boxes and an IndieGoGo campaign yielded a pittance, he found an unusual source of financing. “Social Security at my age is going to help pay for this,” he said. “With Social Security, the monthly payments are reasonable enough for us to convert two to three screens.” They eventually converted all four. There was a flurry of drama in 2014 when the Babcocks faced the prospect of finding the money to convert all four screens to digital projection. Along the way, they converted from in-car speakers to radio sound. (Although some sources suggest the Babcocks didn’t take full ownership until the mid-1990s.) They added a second screen in 1999, a third screen in 2004, and a fourth in 2011. When the Kleins decided to sell in 1976, the Babcocks took over, and they’ve been running it ever since. Roger Babcock began working at the Hi-Way in 1971 and met his future wife when she started working there. Sounds like somebody’s wife was taking charge!) (The 1952 Theatre Catalog listed the drive-in’s executive as Mrs. Frieda Klein. It opened with a single screen on May 4, 1951, owned by brothers Morris and Rafael Klein. has plenty of newspaper clippings of the Hi-Way’s origins. This was one more day of short drives – just 20 minutes from the Greenville Drive-In Outdoor Cinema, in Greenville NY of course, to the Hi-Way Drive-In Theatre in Coxsackie NY. You Have Been Successfully Unsubscribed From The Newsletter.It’s Day 306 of my virtual Drive-In-a-Day Odyssey. Sorry, Failed To Unsubscribe From The Newsletter. Problem While Recovering Password, Please Try Again Later Please Enter Collection Name Please Wait Please Enter Your Name Please Enter Your Comment Please Select Collection Please Enter First Name First Name Should Not Be More Than 50 Characters Please Enter Last Name Last Name Should Not Be More Than 50 Characters Password Din't Match Problem Reseting Your Password, Please Try Again Later Keyword Is Restricted, Please Try Another Keyword Sorry! A Problem Occurred While Sending The Email, Please Try Again Later. Date Must Be In YYYY-MM-DD Format Month Must Be Between 1 And 12 Day Must Be Between 1 And 31 Please Enter Valid Email Email Should Not Be More Than 100 Characters Characters Remaining Message Should Not Be Blank Email Should Be Correct Please Check For Reservation Time What Type Of Location Are You Collecting? Please Enter Password Password Should Be 8-16 Characters Long, Alphanumeric With One Special Character Password Should Not Be More Than 50 Characters Please Check Email Address And Try Again Error! Email Sent! Check Your Inbox, We’ve Sent You Instructions On How To Reset Your Password. Detail email,public_profile 731812490255864 42.35750000 -73.80805556 Coxsackie 30495 36 2 42.32432900 -73.84890700 cityseeker_t_A 42.35750000 -73.80805556 Set Current Location See All Global Search Remove from Collection Add to Collection Saved Save Save Collection to Profile Saved Collection to Profile What type of location are you collecting? Approximate Duration Options Found View Full Hours Hide Full Hours No Data Found Please check your starting point or destination location Miles to Destination Please Enter Old Password Please Enter New Password Old and New Passwords Are the Same New Password and Confirm New Password Do Not Match Please allow access to email Geolocation is not supported by this browser Please provide valid email Collection Not Available Keyword Should Contain At Least 3 Characters Keyword Should Contain Only Alphanumeric Characters Keyword Already Added.
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