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Wednesday, August 04, 2010

Glen Drive-In Theater (Queensbury, NY)

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The drive-in movie tour is almost done! On Sunday M and I headed up to Queensbury to check out The Glen Drive-In. I had my reservations at first, because it was so close to Lake George and the chance of it being overrun with tourists was high. But as we pulled up, it seemed campy and quite likeable. M commented it looked like something you would find in a horror movie.

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The menu at the concession stand seems tiny compared to the one in Malta. I thought I caught the faint smell of funnel cakes, but they were nowhere to be found. But they do have chicken fingers, jalapeño poppers, and french fries if you need your fried food fix at the movies.  M dragged me out of there before I could buy anything.

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My poor attempt at using the speaker during the second movie. Wouldn’t hanging this off your door scratch up the paint? And the cord doesn’t stretch out that far… hence my having to hold on to it. I made it through one trailer before I put it back. Car speakers win this time, my friend.

We watched Despicable Me and Salt. Despicable Me was cute, but I didn’t get into it until halfway through the movie (too slow and boring in the first half). Salt… Albany was really good. The rest of the movie… whatever.

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Malta Drive-In Theatre (Malta, NY)

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I’m really starting to like the drive-in. Two movies for less than the price of one, and I get to watch them with a nice starry back drop. Not that it doesn’t have its drawbacks (SUVs parked in car parking, people making loud obnoxious phone calls… and the mosquitoes), but it’s still a fun thing to do in the summer.

 

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The concession stand. Normally when I go to the movies I refrain from getting food because there’s not much space for it in a packed room. In your own car… different story. And I was pretty hungry that night, and everything sounded good. The prices seemed reasonable enough, and definitely much cheaper than a regular theater.

 

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What I ended up ordering – large bucket of popcorn, chips with nacho cheese, a large drink and… DEEP FRIED OREOS! I’ve never had them before, and they were selling it. I just had to try it. They also have fried Twinkies, which I am definitely interested in. I was going to get a huge bag of Twizzlers, but M put his foot down. I think this ended up costing about 16 dollars. Not too bad.

Popcorn was pretty salty, and that’s with me not adding any. Definitely not enough cheese to go with the chips, and while I was excited to eat fried Oreos… it could have used chocolate syrup. The batter they used tasted exactly like the batter some restaurants used for their fried ice cream. I need to know what this stuff is. It’s good. The Oreo itself was slightly soggy, but I guess that’s to be expected. I want to bite into a fried Oreo and have the cookie still crisp. But that just means I’ll have to make them for myself.

In time.

And if you were wondering, we watched Inception and Eclipse. Inception was good, and it literally had me sitting on the edge of my seat, in anticipation of what would happen next. And Eclipse? Team Jacob’s body.

Malta Drive-In Theatre
2785 Route 9
Malta, NY  12020
(518) 587-6077

Box Office opens at 7:00, first movie starts just before 9:00

Admission fees – 12 and up: 8.00
                                    12 and under: 3.00

Outside food permit – 5.00