drive.in.out.adventure.man.Colt...
You obviously had more fun at the movies than I did. I was reading a book in the ticket booth or counting money. I spent so much time reading as the sun went down that for YEARS if I was buried in a book about that time of day and the phone rang... I would pick it up and answer "Morris Plains Drive-In." Jeez... I had almost forgotten that. <ggg>
When my brother was a kid, he and his buddies would sneak across the cow pasture that was behind the drive-in to watch the movies from the refreshment stand. He was not as tightly controlled as I was... youngest and a boy as opposed to oldest and a girl.
Yep... a cow pasture. Glacier Hills was the first development followed by Sedgefield to be carved out of a massive dairy farm called Alderney Farms. There a white "barn" with a silo at the northeast corner of Rt. 10 and 202 that was a small ice cream parlor. In the summer the window in the silo would be open and we could get our ice cream there. We'd eat the cones at the edge of the pasture.
The father of one of my friend's used to take us there a lot. All we little girls had to do was surround him and chirp...
Mr. Baldwin is the greatest! He would pile us into the car... off for ice cream. <ggg>
When we were teenagers, he had a '65(?) navy Bonneville convertible. He'd pick us up from the football games with the top down and let us wave our pompoms and yell our high school cheers on the way home. We were all pretty easy on the eyes back then. I'm chuckling now... because I know how guys his age think. He must have been in heaven playing chauffeur. God bless him.
The dairy farm and the drive-in are gone now... buried under corporate fields of soulless buildings... the cow patties replaced with piles of goose droppings. Strip malls of grocery stores and Barnes & Noble break up the view. The once three lane highway is now 6 lanes in that spot with a concrete divider separating the sides. The ice cream parlor has been replaced by a Wendy's. Nothing left to remind you that it was once a bucolic setting.
That's why I live here. It's as close to the New Jersey of my youth that I can find.
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