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Bruddy commented about Plainfield Edison Drive-In on Aug 11, 2010 at 7:30 pm

Rick, those are great memories you have. I think that’s why movies have such a strong hold on people—it’s not just the movies themselves you remember, but the people you were with when you saw them. I also remember the Plain-Edison. For some reason I remember it as the Plainfield Edison Drive-In, which is what my mother and friends called it as well. It was right down the street from the Iselin Theater, where I also went to see films. I remember seeing American Graffitti at the Plainfield Edison and later Hooper and the animated Lord of the Rings. Good memories.

Bruddy
Bruddy commented about Fox Theatre on Aug 11, 2010 at 7:10 pm

I saw several films here, including Young Frankenstein, Hot Stuff and The Main Event. As a kid, the place seemed upscale to me compared to the Fords and Iselin Theaters I was used to going to.

Bruddy
Bruddy commented about Fords Cinema on Aug 11, 2010 at 7:06 pm

I saw several films here in the late 70s—early 80s, including Stripes, Gandhi, The Shining and Love at First Bite.

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Bruddy commented about Amboys Drive-In on Aug 11, 2010 at 7:02 pm

As a child growing up in the 1970s I went with my family to watch movies at the Amboy Drive-In. I vaguely remember that for at least one summer they showed all Disney movies. I saw Fantasia, Bambi, Dumbo, Mary Poppins, The Shaggy DA, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Herbie the Lovebug and a few others. I also remember catching bits of movies whenever my parents drove across the bridge at night from South Amboy to Perth Amboy. It’s truly a shame kids no longer experience the magic of drive-ins.