@DeWayfarer Yes, and that was relatively common just a generation ago. The sad thing is that people who can no longer do this and are priced out continue to put Republicans in charge who will only exacerbate the situation. They vote against their own interests again and again and again.
@DeWayfarer I get it. I think my father paid $8,000 for his first house in 1962. The average home in that town last year was $462,000, and the cheapest was $199,000.
@windinhishair I wonder how Disney would fair today. I heard that he had just barely managed to stay a float back in the early days. From what I heard he was massively in debt when he started.
This image was around your father's time when he had bought that house in 1962...
@DeWayfarer Just an aside, I looked up drive-ins across the country a while back and this one came up. I grew up living behind one as a kid and used to watch the movie from my backyard. No sound though.
@PatKirby the Orange drive-in was rather well known. Swap meets happened every weekend....
As you can see I didn't live very far from there. Yet we still had to take the long way around, along that frontage road called Manchester.
Whoever designed that section of the freeway, made a major error by not including a bridge or underpass on Orangewood street. They completely blocked a major street off.
Only a lifetime later did they ever consider to correct that error.
I'll bet the businesses and houses at lower-right along the street could easily see the movie and perhaps hear. A highway separated the drive-in from my house but you could faintly hear the loud action parts. Yes, they also held flea markets on the weekend mornings/afternoons as well before the show. Those were the daze!
