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JeanneH: Gone With The Wind

JeanneH: I can't remember the title of the last (movie) I saw at the Coeur d'Alene Drive-In on Gov't Way, but I do remember the last time I saw the screen, it was on the ground after a windstorm, and the marquee said “Gone With The Wind” - that's the last time we had a drive-in here…probably sometime in the early '80's. And before that we also had the Showboat, which was a real boat (for the concession stand), over on the property where Goodies service station is now on Ramsey…We used to take the kids in the back of the station wagon with their jammies on, back it in to a place, and all of us lay in the back with the tailgate open and watch the movie…everybone could see that way. The good old days when movies were CHEAP! JH

Question: What do you miss most re: the Coeur d'Alene area's "good old days"?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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