Some might get mad at me for calling it that but honestly, it is what it is. When was the last time some of you went to see a movie at the Drive-In? Honestly. I can’t even remember the last movie I saw at Kam Drive-In in Aiea. It could be close to 20 years now. I’ve been told that this one particular Drive-In is actually still functional but as more movies go to a digital distribution, places like these are becoming more and more extinct. I don’t mean DVD/Bluray/Piracy, I mean digital distribution. If you go to a modern movie theater and look at the projector, there are no more reels of film anymore. It is now digitally delivered to a theater over the internet. Piracy was one reason this is becoming a thing and another is ease of delivery. The last Avengers movie saw a benefit from this, a week before release they filmed the awesome cut at the end of the credits. They had just enough time to put that together and pop it into the movie just before the release date. The problem for the becoming extinct Drive-Ins is that they usually do not have the same backing as some of the other theater companies do so no one is going to buy those projectors for them. It’s a sink or swim kind of environment that I do not wish to see happen but it is. When I took these photos I brought @partyallmyown1 with me and she said she had never been to a Drive-In. She didn’t even know how they worked. It really is sad that such a great monument in our history is going to disappear.
