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JeanneH: Gone With The Wind

Posted by DFO

March 19, 2009 8:32 a.m. • 17 comments

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”?

17 comments on this post so far. Add yours!

Kage_Mann on March 19 at 9:14 a.m.
I must be old if I can remember all the things JeanneH is writing about.I also, miss the old CDA.I miss my grandparents old motel that they owned on Appleway, back when you didn’t have to be well-off to own one.I believe the screen for the CDA drive-in blew over in the late seventies and was replaced by the CDA tri-cinemas.I also, remember the old Showboat theater and the army/navy store that Orrin Lee ran,which was a little below the
Goodies convenience store.The Wilma theater will be missed by alot of oldtimers.

I miss the ole’ North Shore, when the locals felt welcome to go down there and alot of the video game arcades that were going strong in the 80’s around the area.
JohnQPubic on March 19 at 10:43 a.m.
The last movie was The Exorcist. Really.
Escapee on March 19 at 1:56 p.m.
Playland Pier will always be close to my heart. I just loved it; such a cool place that was. Right now, thinking about it, I can visualize it, every nook and cranny. CDA, back then, was a great place to grow up.
cpalisa on March 19 at 7:13 p.m.
I miss the little store that was across the street from the City Park that had all the toys, the library when it was by the Post Office, the Wilma and the Drive In and, when I was in HS, hanging out downtown on the weekends watching the cruisers. Mostly I miss it being a smaller town and I miss the “type” of town it was, pre-resort days.
JeanneH on March 19 at 8:45 p.m.
I miss all those, too, and the Ulrich Arabian Ranch, the old bridges that used to cross the river off the dike road, and down some at Post Falls, the Kootenai County Leader, the old Red and White store in the fort grounds, drive-ins Topper and Frostop, Dingles Hardware, old Montgomery Wards in the Wiggett building, Lakeside Wedding Chapel and Hitching Post…and yes, cpalisa, the fact that Cd’A was a little town where “everybody knew your name!”
Stickman on March 19 at 9:03 p.m.
I agree Jeanne H. I miss the small town I came here to many years ago.
JBelle on March 19 at 9:03 p.m.
The Brunswick! What ever happened to the totem?
JeanneH on March 19 at 10:01 p.m.
Hey, Stickman, it’s nice to be back on the same page with you…been awhile. I tried to send you an email a while ago (months) and adelphia changed my address to roadrunner, so I’m sure your computer trashed it! I’ll have to drive by on a nice day and visit…Later…JH
PDXPup on March 19 at 10:09 p.m.
When I was little, we used to sneak into the lumber stacks at a hardware store in the middle of downtown and play hide and seek. The owner would inevitably find us, be a leeeeeetle bit cranky at us and send us home.

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