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Cars lined up on US Route 11, waiting to enter. Family Drive-In, Stephens City, VA, 2008.
2008 marked the seventy-fifth anniversary of the drive-in theater. In 1932, Richard Hollingshead, an auto parts sales manager, began to experiment with sound, car angle, and weather conditions for showing movies in his Riverton, New Jersey, driveway. The following year, Hollingshead obtained a patent for his drive-in theater plan and opened the Automobile Movie Theater (later the Camden Drive-In), with a capacity of four hundred cars, in neighboring Pennsauken. On opening night, May 16, 1933, the theater featured a second-run film, Wives Beware. The novelty of the experience, "Sit in your car, see and hear movies," may have surpassed the quality of the movies themselves, for Hollingshead and his partners struggled to obtain first-run films from distributors. Hollingshead's drive-in, where patrons "could dress as they please, smoke, talk, and eat supper at the same time" lasted three years.1
Hollingshead's drive-in established some basic parameters for subsequent theaters. In addition to technical requirements and internal spatial organization, Hollingshead's theater set a precedent for geographic location. Like the Automobile Movie Theater, located just outside Camden and just over the Delaware River from Philadelphia, subsequent drive-ins were constructed on large tracts of land on the outskirts of residential and commercial development. As Bruce Lonnee, a senior development planner for Athens/Clarke County, Georgia, points out, drive-in theaters were designed "to accommodate the automobile first and the customer second," and were usually located with access to major transportation routes. Drive-ins predated shopping malls and suburban subdivisions, but their spatial organization "typif[ies] the features of all suburban commercial development." Indeed, many drive-in theaters were ultimately leveled to make way for shopping malls or residential developments.2
During the Depression few people were willing to spring for the price of tickets, and drive-ins slowly appeared on the outskirts of other urban areas, such as Galveston, Texas, Los Angeles, California, and Allentown, Pennsylvania. Gasoline rationing and rubber shortages accompanied the war years, further reducing patronage. By 1945, barely one hundred drive-ins existed in the United States.3
The postwar years witnessed an astounding upswing in drive-in popularity. By 1950, over two thousand drive-in theaters were in operation, and by 1956, more than four thousand. According to one estimate, "the public [spent] more at drive-ins. . . than at live theatre, opera, and professional and college football combined."4 The drive-in's sudden popularity was due in large part to the postwar baby boom. Drive-in theaters, which offered affordable, family entertainment, catered particularly to young suburbanites with children. Most theaters boasted playgrounds; some offered miniature golf, pony rides, and fireworks exhibitions. Drive-ins appealed to the emerging teen culture, as couples sought the privacy of darkened cars.5
The drive-in's popularity was short-lived. By the 1960s, their numbers began to decline. In the 1970s, many fell victim to suburbanization. Land on which theaters stood became more valuable for commercial development. Theaters resorted to screening exploitation films and adult-only fare. In the 1980s, the advent of cable television and the expanding video rental market brought the drive-in industry to its knees. At the beginning of the decade, there were nearly 2,500 active theaters, but by 1989, less than one thousand remained. The numbers continued to decline throughout the 1990s; by century's end, fewer than 450 theaters survived.6
In the 2000s, the number of theaters stabilized at around four hundred, but their geographical distribution shifted. California, with its rapidly expanding suburbs, lost seventeen theaters — nearly half its 1998 total — in the subsequent ten years. Tennessee, Texas, and Alabama added theaters as part of a growing interest not just in maintaining existing theaters, but in constructing new ones.7 Six of Alabama's ten drive-ins opened since 1996.8 New theaters are planned for Virginia and possibly Atlanta's northernmost suburbs.9
Screen of Starlite Drive-In with Starlite Mobile Home Park in the foreground. Christiansburg, VA, 2008.
Proponents of drive-in theaters cite a nostalgia factor: a desire for "family-oriented" entertainment. Drive-ins owe much of their recent resurgence to the "retro" aesthetic and perhaps to middle-class, white Americans' search for some imagined, idyllic past and place. In many cases, this past is located — like the hey-day of drive-ins — in the 1950s. Drive-in owners, many of them baby boomers, have tapped into this nostalgia. Theaters tout G- and PG-rated films and highlight their "family-friendly" atmosphere. A theater under construction in Moneta, Virginia, near the resort community of Smith Mountain Lake, explicitly claims this heritage and will be named the Mayberry Drive-In, after the fictional town in The Andy Griffith Show. The Mayberry will include a 1950s-style diner, and movies with PG- or PG-13 ratings.10
The reinvention of the drive-in theater as an imagined space of a supposedly more moral, wholesome era obscures and ignores the tensions and repressions of that period, tensions which shaped drive-ins and other forms of popular entertainment.11 Contemporary hipsters and rockabilly fans also claim drive-in nostalgia, through a past evocative of James Dean, Elvis Presley, and Marlon Brando — icons of 1950s teenage rebellion. Drive-ins first achieved reputations as "passion pits" where unsupervised teens inaugurated the sexual revolution.
Drive-in nostalgia does not acknowledge the white racism that characterized the drive-in's glory years. Like most other public establishments in the South prior to the 1960s, indoor movie theaters were legally segregated. As Douglas Gomery explains, de facto racial segregation in movie theaters was common outside the South as well, but was dictated more by "residential patterns of use." Some southern locales contained black-only movie houses, but these were often poorly equipped and maintained, and usually only screened first-run films after white theaters had shown them. Other forms of segregation included designated viewing times for African-Americans, usually after movie houses had closed for whites; restricted balcony seating areas; and separate entrances, concessions, and toilet facilities for whites and blacks.12
Despite many studies of discrimination in other entertainment venues, scholarship on segregation at the drive-in is almost nonexistent. There are indications that such segregation may have been the norm in Dixie. Robert Weyeneth notes that the "general pattern [of segregation] was exclusion."13 While venues like the Olympic Theater in Los Angeles served patrons of all races, black-only drive-ins such as the Booker T. in Roanoke, Virginia, or the Star-Lite in Dallas, Texas, appeared below the Mason-Dixon Line.14 Drive-ins that admitted both races sometimes attempted to segregate through partitioning. When Richmond, Virginia's Bellwood Theater opened in 1948, it contained "segregated motor entrances defined by a wall in between. African Americans entered the drive-in from the back. . . and parked in the walled-off northeastern corner of the theater lot. Separate concession stands and restrooms were provided in the vicinity."15
The sit-ins and civil rights legislation of the early 1960s that ultimately brought desegregation to indoor movie theaters may have had the same effect on outdoor theaters. However, by the end of the 1960s, drive-in theaters were past their prime, and integration may have become a moot point as theaters gradually closed.
This history of segregation raises other questions: whose nostalgia is driving the new drive-in movement? What notions of "family" does the "family-oriented" marketing apply to? As many of the theaters documented in this essay demonstrate, the drive-in theater can represent an imagined past characterized by older, often unexamined, ideologies of family and community; but it can also testify to new, emerging patterns of social togetherness. Drive-in fans exhibit pride in the theaters they patronize and an awareness of the drive-ins' power as spaces of pleasure. This spirit takes a variety of forms, including contributing time and resources to revive ebbing drive-ins and sometimes pushing for their historic recognition.16
The drive-in theaters featured in this essay are located in the Valley of Virginia, the Appalachian foothills, and the eastern edge of the North Carolina piedmont. Each suggests how people in different rural and urban places relate to the drive-in: from the bustling Starlight Six in Atlanta to the defunct Starlite in Durham; the rebirth of the Tiger Drive-in and the all-but-disappeared Commerce Drive-In in northern Georgia.
Map of Featured Drive-In Theaters
Most of the theaters in this essay were visited during a one-week period in June 2008 as part of a trip from Atlanta to northern Virginia. The route extended northeast along Interstate 85 to Petersburg, Virginia, then over to Interstate 95. The return trip originated in Winchester, Virginia, and traveled through the Shenandoah Valley on Interstate 81 and US Route 11, then turned south on Interstate 77, picking up I-85 at Charlotte.
We identified possible theaters and theater sites by surveying www.drive-ins.com. The theaters we chose were close to our route, had addresses that could be located, and seemed relatively easy to find. Also their aerial views on Google Earth contained recognizable drive-in ramps. Even though there were a number of other active theaters in southwestern Virginia — including the Moonlite, the Park Place, and the Hiland — and northeastern Tennessee, time and route constraints prevented us from visiting them.
About the Authors
Robin Conner has PhD in History from Emory University. Her current research explores gender and class identities in post-Civil War western military bases. She is a Visiting Lecturer at Georgia State University.
Paul Johnson is a freelance photographer, draftsman, and drive-in enthusiast. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
Family Drive-In - Stephens City, Virginia
Surrounded by historic landmarks, the Family Drive-In faces US Route 11, which runs through the Shenandoah Valley. Once a Native American trail, and known as the Great Wagon Road or the Valley Turnpike to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German and Scots-Irish emigrants who followed it southward from Pennsylvania into Virginia and the Carolinas, Route 11 served as the principal north-south thoroughfare until the construction of Interstate 81 in the 1960s. The Family Drive-In stands about a mile south of Stephens City, Virginia, a nineteenth-century transportation hub known for manufacturing Conestoga wagons, and five miles north of Middletown, Virginia, site of the pivotal Civil War Battle of Cedar Creek. General Philip Sheridan's ride south from Winchester to rally retreating Union forces passed directly over the Drive-In's grounds. Opened in 1956, and run continuously by the Dalke family, the Family Drive-In has become a recognized part of local history. In 2006, to commemorate the Drive-In's fiftieth anniversary, members of the Dalke family endowed a scholarship at nearby Lord Fairfax Community College.17
The Family Drive-In remains well-maintained and well-attended. On a recent June Saturday night, patrons arrived more than half an hour before the gates opened: lines of cars on Route 11 waiting to enter stretched for nearly a quarter-mile in both directions. Bright, multicolored speaker poles partitioned the gravel parking area, and children gamboled on the grassy playground in front of the main screen while parents kept watch from nearby bench swings. A sleek Jaguar convertible parked near a 4x4 pickup with oversized tires. As one of only two drive-in theaters in relatively close proximity to Washington, D.C, the Family Drive-In draws locals as well as guests from the Northern Virginia suburbs and from West Virginia.18 On summer nights, parking areas for both screens — the Family Drive-In is the only remaining "twin" drive-in theater in Virginia — are often filled to capacity. Typical audiences are predominantly white and economically and age-diverse, with ages ranging from teens to young families and older couples.19
Perhaps due to its proximity to a large metropolitan area as well as local patronage, the Family Drive-In remains one of only nine surviving drive-ins in Virginia.
Hull's Drive-In - Lexington, Virginia
Small and well-kept, Hull's Drive-In Theater is nestled in the rolling hills along US Route 11, just north of Lexington, Virginia. Vintage speakers decorate the gravel parking lot and mark parking spots for patrons. The speakers are functional, but audio is also transmitted by the theater's FM broadcast. Bright blue restaurant tables adjoin the concession stand. A black-and-white flyer near the snack counter promotes the 75th Anniversary of Drive-Ins by offering seventy-five cent popcorn. Hull's large, white movie screen is supported by metal framework in the middle and by wooden telephone poles on the sides, which suggests that the screen may have been enlarged at some point in the past.
In 1999, Hull's was dark throughout the summer for the first time in forty-nine years. Owner, W. D. Goad, who ran an adjacent auto body shop, had purchased the theater in 1998, after the death of longtime owner Seburt Hull. Faced with high upkeep costs, Goad decided to search for a buyer who was not only willing to finance the upgrades, but who would also keep the theater "family friendly." Even though Hull's double-feature started at 9:00 pm, cars arrived as early as 5:30. As one fan explained, "We like to come early so the kids can come out and play before."20
A commercial buyer never came. Instead in June 1999, Eric and Elise Sheffield held a public meeting with fifty concerned fans, and they agreed to form a non-profit group called "Hull's Angels" to keep the drive-in open. In the spring of 2000, the group launched a $75,000 capital campaign; by July 2000, more than six hundred donations, ranging from twenty to two hundred dollars, had poured in. The Angels purchased the business in May 2001, and successfully operate Hull's Drive-In as the United States' only non-profit, locally-owned drive-in.21
For now, Hull's Drive-In is sustained because its audience of patrons extends well beyond the small town of Lexington to include, as described by Manager Frank Kulesza, a variety of people, "From dirt farmers and people from other parts of Virginia to tourists from Australia and Germany."22 Hull's Angels' members pay annual dues, encourage press coverage, and run fundraising activities. Online sites, such as Jennifer Sherer's Drive-ins.com and Drive-in Theatres of the Mid-Atlantic provide enthusiasts with descriptions and directions. Sherer's site also generates support for theaters facing high maintenance expenses and low profitability. "We've had people of all ages write to us and thank us for enabling them to tap into this online drive-in enthusiast community," says Sherer. "Ultimately we think it encourages people to go out and support their local drive-in."23
Starlite Drive-In - Christiansburg, Virginia
The Starlite Drive-In is located in the southwestern Virginia town of Christiansburg, along the New River Valley on the western side of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Neon lights illuminate the blue-and-red ticket booth and the matching building that houses the projector, restrooms, and snackbar. The Starlite's bright colors contrast with the drive-in's residential surroundings. Two beige ranch houses sit behind the last row of parking. The screen abuts the Starlite Mobile Home Park; the large red star painted on its metal back peeks through overgrown trees at the end of a neighborhood street.
Richard and Dot Beasley opened the Starlite in 1952. At one time, the theater competed with the Hiway, the Autodrome, and the Midway in nearby Pulaski and Radford. As many as eight drive-ins operated in Roanoke, thirty-five miles north. More than fifty years later, the 250-car Starlite is the only one of these theaters still in operation and is one of only eight active drive-ins in Virginia.24
Dot met her future husband Richard while he was working as a ticket-taker at Christiansburg's now long-defunct Glen Theatre, which he co-owned along with his father and brother. The couple married, and, after selling the Glen, decided to open a drive-in. "I had a lazy streak," recalls Richard. "I thought how great it would be not to work in the wintertime." After purchasing used equipment and five acres of land, he designed and built the facility. The family's house stands on a corner of the property, as does that of their daughter Peggy, who took over ownership of the Starlite in 1985.25
Now in their 70s and 80s, the Beasleys have considered retirement, yet each year the Starlite draws them back: Richard resumes his position in the ticket booth while Dot dishes up the Starlite's renowned hot dogs and chili, the main attraction for some patrons.26
Raleigh Road Outdoor Theatre - Henderson, North Carolina
Open since 1949, the Raleigh Road Outdoor Theatre, originally the Moon-Glo, is North Carolina's oldest drive-in. Ali-Baba & The Forty Thieves (1944) was the first film shown on its thirty-six by forty-eight foot screen. According to the following day's Henderson Daily Dispatch, moviegoers were "invited to smoke if they wish, dress as they please," and were encouraged to "bring your snap beans or other vegetables to prepare for the next day's meals."
In 1977, original owner Sonny Stevenson sold the Moon-Glo to the Lyle family, who renamed the theater after its location. Ownership changed hands again in 2004, when the theater became the first drive-in sold on eBay, for $22,000, to Jim and Megan Kopp.27 Jim Kopp's passion for drive-ins led the couple to spend $300,000 on updates and renovations.
[Jim] and Megan made the 200-mile trip from Virginia to check it out before placing their final bid. The place was overgrown with weeds, and Megan thought he was crazy for even considering the purchase. Jim wouldn't be deterred.
In the theater's storage room, the Kopps found old speakers, movie posters, and unreturned films, including the 1967 sexploitation feature, Shanty Tramp, from a period when many drive-ins showed late-night adult movies.28
The Koops have worked to make the renovated Raleigh Road a premier spot for family entertainment. "Family Fun under the Stars" greets visitors from the roadside, one of many signs throughout the grounds. Other notices tell patrons where to park, where to tune their radios, how children should play on the plastic playground, and what is and isn't allowed in Raleigh Road — dogs, yes; outside food, no.
There were once two hundred drive-ins in North Carolina, but by 2008, only seven remained in operation. Undeterred, the Kopps, according to their website, hope to bring their theater into the "digital age" by updating their projectors and speakers while keeping the Raleigh Road affordable. Current admission prices are five dollars for adults and two dollars for children.
Starlite Drive-In - Durham, North Carolina
The Starlite Drive-In stands in a residential area northeast of Durham, less than half a mile from Interstate 85. Grass and weeds slowly reclaim the sandy gravel parking area; a fifteen-foot-high mound of used tires is heaped against the back fence. Speaker poles and junction boxes remain, but the speakers are long gone. Brightly-painted murals of anthropomorphized concession treats — dancing hot dogs and burgers, a lecherous popcorn bucket, and smiling condiments — decorate the concrete-block snackbar and projection booth. The paint appears fresh, but tall weeds and boarded windows suggest no activity. Inside, clutters of spare mechanical parts, video rental boxes, sleeves of Coca-Cola cups, and film canisters hint at an abrupt abandonment. Even much of the projector remains.
Most drive-in theaters pay significant fees — up to eighty to ninety percent of the box office take — to screen films. Concession sales and auxiliary business ventures are vital in keeping the gates open and screens lit. Like many other drive-in theaters, the Starlite hosted a Saturday flea market. In addition, as the Walther, Colt, and Ruger window decals on the projection booth testify, late proprietor Robert "Bob" Groves opened a gun shop and video club shortly after he acquired the theater in 1987.29
The last Durham-area drive-in still standing, the Starlite's future is uncertain. In 1996, Hurricane Fran caused thousands of dollars in property damage. In 2004, an overheated riding mower sparked a fire that destroyed the screen with resulting damages between $35,000 and $70,000. The insurance company had deemed the screen too old to insure.30
Groves, who lived in a mobile home adjacent to the theater, vowed to rebuild. Members of the local community formed the Save Our Starlite Foundation. A grading contractor provided heavy equipment for clean-up; workers donated their labor. Area businesses set up collection jars. Avon representatives contributed profits, and a Harvest Dance on the drive-in's grounds raised several thousand dollars.31 The Starlite reopened in August 2005, a year after the fire. On opening night, a line of vehicles extended onto I-85 and more than fifty cars were turned away.
The Starlite's resurrection was brief, however, as Bob Groves died suddenly from heart failure in March 2007. The drive-in has been closed ever since.32 Some community residents have expressed wistful desires to raise funds to purchase the property or to seek its designation as a historic site, but with the theater and adjoining land parcels (also owned by Groves) appraised at over $1.8 million and a Super Wal-Mart under construction on a nearby site, further development seems unlikely. Even if community efforts to preserve the Starlite do not succeed, it is clear local residents have taken a keen interest in the theater's welfare. As we prepared to leave the vacant theater, a Durham County Sheriff's Deputy — summoned by neighboring residents — arrived to make sure we were not vandals or thieves.
Bessemer City Kings Mountain Drive-In - Bessemer City, North Carolina
There are four active drive-in theaters within a forty-mile radius of Charlotte, North Carolina: the Belmont, the Sunset, the Bessemer City Kings Mountain to the south, and the Badin Road to the east. Located on North Carolina State Route 161 about two miles north of Interstate 85, the Bessemer City Kings Mountain Drive-In is in poor physical condition. Paint peels from the ticket booth, and one side of the roof seems haphazardly repaired. A "7" made from black electrical tape announces the price of admission has been reduced by a dollar per car — this is the only drive-in we visited that charged by the carload. There is no playground in this austere space. Strips of parched grass run between gray gravel driveways. Heavily rusted speaker poles tilt awkwardly over mowed grass. The difficulty in maintaining functional drive-in speakers was also apparent — speaker connections were patched with electrical tape, and the speakers themselves often bear the names of other drive-in theaters. The screen itself, composed of white rectangular panels, had begun to warp from weather exposure. Hot summer sun filtered through cracks between the panels.
Rick Stinnett, owner of the Bessemer City Kings Mountain, lives on-site in an adjacent white house. His parents started the Bessemer City theater, and he took over the family business in 1995 — ten years after he acquired the Sunset Drive-In. Like the Starlite in Durham, and many other individually-owned drive-ins with aging proprietors, Bessemer City Kings Mountain faces an uncertain future.33
Tiger Drive-In - Tiger, Georgia
In 2004, the Tiger Drive-In marked its fiftieth anniversary by reopening. Once the "heartbeat" of Tiger, Georgia, a small mountain community on Old Highway 441, three miles south of Clayton, the drive-in had been shuttered since the mid-1980s. Daylight Savings Time, which forced theater owners to push back movie start times, sapped attendance by shift workers. The video rental boom of the 1980s heralded the theater's collapse. An offer to build a cemetery on the drive-in's terraced slopes inspired Sherryl Wilson Major, daughter of one of the original owners, and her husband Tom, to bring the theater back to life.34
The Tiger barely has space for two hundred cars, but on an early June Saturday night it fills rapidly. As showtime approaches, early arrivals are asked to shift their cars to accommodate additional vehicles. The snack bar features hotdogs and popcorn, as well as Black Angus burgers. Children play on brightly-colored swings and slides in front of the screen; "Red Rubber Ball," "The Sloop John B," and the "Ballad of the Green Berets" loop from a CD boombox broadcast over the theater's sound system. This Saturday night is also the monthly Year One Hot Rod Night at the Tiger. Classic cars like the owner's 1957 Corvette share space with a row of "rat rod" VWs and dune buggies.
Twenty years after its initial closure, the family-owned Tiger is once again a local attraction. It occupies a central location on the strip beside the fire department, near a popular vineyard on the Georgia Wine Highway, and abutting an assisted living facility — also owned and operated by the Majors. Monday is senior night with bingo.35 Tom and Sherryl Majors sell tickets, supervise the snack bar, and try to involve their children in the operation; one son even dons a tiger suit to promote the theater during special events.
Commerce Drive-In - Commerce, Georgia
Two parallel driveways leading away from US Highway 441, just south of Commerce, Georgia, offer the only indication that the Commerce Drive-In once stood over the crest of the hill. A "for sale" sign stands on a rise to the left; a cable stretched across the entrance bars entry Paved asphalt and cropped grass give way to an undergrowth of tall weeds, briars, and young pines. Broken pavement covered with pine straw and weeds curves around the ticket booth. The booth's white paint appears crisp, but the red trim is peeling, and no glass remains in the windows. Vines, thorns, and large bushes block approach to the booth on three sides. Beyond, the brush clears to reveal the old parking lot, concession stand, and, at the far edge of the field, the remnants of a screen.
After nearly fifty years in operation, the Commerce Drive-In closed in 2001. Once, it sported three screens, but now only a few forlorn sections of plywood cling to the screen's skeletal wooden supports.36 Scrub grass and weeds cover the paved gravel lot. A few rusted speaker poles sprout here and there, but most are gone. The doors and windows of the concession stand yawn open. Inside, little remains except more peeling paint, collapsed ceiling tiles, and a row of three porcelain toilets.
The Woodall family operated the Commerce Drive-In for more than thirty years before competition from multiplexes led them to shutter the theater. Envisioning a "family-friendly entertainment complex," Joe Woodall opened a new two-screen drive-in forty miles away in rural Dewy Rose, Georgia. To compete with suburban multiplexes, Woodall installed up-to-date FM sound. A corn maze draws families and local college students in the fall; a hotel and winery are in the works.37
In the coming months, it is likely that any physical indication of the Commerce Drive-In's existence will be wiped off the lot where it has stood for a half-century. In place of the Commerce Drive-In, commercial development will likely follow. However, the defunct and disappearing Commerce has a unique legacy in its former owner's new drive-in theater in Dewy Rose.
Starlight Six - Atlanta, Georgia
At one time, Atlanta offered the Piedmont, Thunderbird, Bankhead, Stewart, Fulton Boulevard, Bolton, and Starlight drive-ins. Now only the Starlight remains, one of seven operational Georgia drive-ins. Among southeastern cities, Atlanta, along with Tampa, Miami-Dade, and Memphis, still boasts a drive-in within city limits, something few US cities can claim.
Located in southeast Atlanta on Moreland Avenue, two miles north of Interstate 285, the Starlight Six, like many other theaters, was built decades ago on what was then the outskirts of town. As suburban development radiated, rising residential and commercial property values closed many drive-ins.38 The Starlight Six did not suffer this fate because its location — adjacent to the Dekalb County Landfill, a trucking company, a cemetery, housing projects, and neighborhoods plagued by criminal activity by the early 1990s — made it unattractive to developers.39
The Starlight was originally a single-screen theater when the Georgia Theater Company opened it in 1947. In 1956, the Georgia Theater Company added a second screen, and the drive-in's name was changed to the Starlight Twin to reflect the expansion. Another four screens were added in 1983, so that the Drive-in could compete with multiplexing indoor theaters.40 The Starlight Six property is divided into two large, asphalt lots, each with three screens, a snack bar, patio area, and separate projection booth. The three screens on the lower level have a greater capacity than the upper lot, and special events like the annual Drive Invasion, Rock and Roll Monster Bash, and Downhill Challenge are usually held there. The lower level's snack bar features vivid murals of Bruce Lee, Rudy Ray Moore as Dolemite, Cheech and Chong, and Robby the Robot. Unlike most of the other drive-ins featured in this essay, there are no speakers and poles at the Starlight Six; audio is transmitted exclusively through patrons' FM radios.
Rising gasoline prices and the growing home video industry pushed the Starlight, and many other drive-ins, into desperate times in the 1970s and 1980s. X-rated films and a weekend flea market helped keep the gates open. The Starlight Six owes its rejuvenation to an unusual collaboration in the late 1990s between corporate ownership and local drive-in fans. Over 75 percent of drive-ins are individually-owned small businesses.41 The Starlight Six is owned and operated by the De Anza Land and Leisure Corporation, a family-run business that once owned over forty drive-ins across the country, and which now operates seven drive-ins in California, Arizona, Utah, and Georgia.42 When Atlanta's only other active drive-in, the North 85 Twin, closed in 1998 to make way for a multiplex, nostalgia over its loss combined with the "retro" revival to renew interest in the Starlight Six.43 In 1999, a conversation between local surf-rock guitarist Scott Rogers and the Starlight Six's Teri Oldknow led to a three-day festival of bands, muscle cars, overnight camping, and B-movies.
The successful Drive Invasion, held over Labor Day weekend, became an annual event, leading Starlight management to collaborate with local artists, vendors, and organizations on a range of other activities. Sponsors for the Rock and Roll Monster Bash — an annual June event featuring monster-rock bands, horror movies, a hearse show, and performances by local burlesque troupes—include Atlanta-area haunted house Netherworld and the Silver Scream Spook Show, a local horror/vaudeville ensemble. In 2006, the Starlight Six also hosted a Tiki Torch Night with vintage beach-themed movies, surf rock, and mai tais to celebrate the thirtieth anniversay of the restaurant Trader Vic's Atlanta.
Special events like Drive Invasion or the Rock and Roll Monster Bash have a special appeal for the 1950s and 1960s rockabilly and hipster crowd, while weekend flea market vendors cater to a Hispanic clientele.44 On an average night, patrons include in-town residents as well as attendees from outlying suburbs. The Starlight Six offers a variety of mainstream and cult films to appeal to diverse audiences.
On hazy weekend evenings in the Atlanta summer, groups of twenty- and thirty-somethings gather around portable grills and mingle with carloads of young families, middle-aged couples, retirees, and teenagers. Just before the double-feature starts around nine o'clock, lines to the indoor restrooms stretch past the snack bar and visitors trot to the concession counter for nachos, fountain drinks, hotdogs, and large bags of popcorn. Many patrons tune their car radios to their screen's FM channel and roll their windows down to hear the car speakers as they sit in folding chairs in front of their vehicles. Clunky portable radios and ancient boomboxes sometimes stand in the middle of clustered viewers. As the main feature plays, theater attendants in golf carts survey the lot, often illuminated by the headlights of latecomers searching for open spaces. Headlights flit around the lot, then fade as the credits roll.
- 1. "Drive-in theater," Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive-in_theater; Douglas Gomery, Shared Pleasures: A History of Movie Presentation in the United States (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992), 91. William Robert Bruce Lonnee, "Preserving the American Drive-In Theater," (M.H.P. thesis, University of Georgia, 1999), 11-19. Hollingshead's difficulty in securing first-run films continued to be a common complaint of drive-in operators.
- 2. Lonnee, 3-4.
- 3. Ibid., 28, 30. Douglas Gomery contends that only twenty-five drive-in theaters existed at the end of World War II, but this figure seems unusually low.
- 4. Gomery, 92.
- 5. "Drive-in theater," Wikipedia; "Interactive Statistics," Drive-ins.com, http://www.drive-ins.com/stats.htm.
- 6. "Interactive Statistics."
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- 8. Calvin R. Trice, "Couple seek to build drive-in theater; They're scouting a suitable location and would like to open by next spring," Richmond Times-Dispatch, 4 July 2008, B1; Justin Faulconer, "Drive-in and Diner coming this fall in Moneta," The News & Advance [Lynchburg, VA], 6 August 2008; Marcia Langhenry, "Field of drive-in dreams crops up in Alpharetta; Movie costs, nostalgia spark idea," Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 15 January 2004, IJH.
- 9. Faulconer, "Drive-In and Diner."
- 10. For a discussion of family life in the 1950s, see Elaine Tyler May, Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era (New York: Basic Books, 1988); and Stephanie Koontz, The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap (New York: Basic Books, 1992).
- 11. Gomery, 156-158. On temporal and spatial segregation, see also Robert R. Weyeneth, "The Architecture of Racial Segregation: The Challenges of Preserving the Problematical Past," The Public Historian 27 (2005): 11-44.
- 12. Weyeneth, 21.
- 13. Don Sanders and Susan Sanders, The American Drive-In Movie Theatre (Osceola, WI: Motorbooks International, 1997), 55; "Lock Haven Drive-in," Drive-In Theaters of the Mid-Atlantic, http://www.driveins.org/va-roanoke-lochhaven.htm. The Booker T. closed without notice in April 1953 and reopened shortly thereafter as a white-only theater.
- 14. Weyeneth, 21. The Sunset Drive-In in Hamburg, Arkansas had similarly segregated facilities. Sanders and Sanders, 55.
- 15. Weyeneth, 21.
- 16. Debra McCown, "Moonlite Drive-in Theater gets historic designation," Bristol Herald-Courier, 7 June 2007; idem, "Moonlite Drive-In finds a parking spot on the National Register of Historic Places," Bristol Herald-Courier, 1 September 2007. In 2007, the Moonlite theater in Abingdon, Virginia became one of three drive-in theaters nationwide to be placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
- 17. "Local family serves region for almost 100 years, and creates a lasting legacy at LFCC." Shenandoah.com Stories, 2 September 2006, http://shenandoah.com/stories/?id=7227.
- 18. The other drive-in near Washington, DC is Bengie's, which is east of the District in Baltimore; Ellen McCarthy, "Half a Century Later, Nostalgia for Stephens City's Silver Screen." Washington Post, 18 July 2008, City Guide.
- 19. On demographics in the Winchester-Frederick County area in 2000, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_County,_Virginia#Demographics and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester,_Virginia#Demographics. For 2007 figures for the Winchester metro area, see http://www.bestplaces.net/city/virginia/winchester.
- 20. Jenny Jones, author, Pete Marovich, photographer. "Hull's Drive-In: Preserving a Piece of Americana." American Journal, Issue 9. http://hullsdrivein.com/docs/press/PDF/AmericanJournal.pdf
- 21. Ibid.
- 22. Don Harrison, "See You at the Movies." The Roanoker, July/Aug 2008. http://theroanoker.com/interests/business/see-you-at-the-movies/
- 23. Ibid.
- 24. Dan Kittle, "At the Starlite, the Show Goes On; As Drive-Ins Dwindled, 'They Never Did Quit Coming Here,'" Roanoke Times, New River Valley Edition, 23 May 2002, NRV3; Donna Alvis-Banks, "Still the Good Old Days—and Nights—at the Starlite," Roanoke Times, New River Valley Edition, 4 September 1994, NRV16.
- 25. Brittany Davis, "Drive-In Offers Memorable Summer Nights." The Roanoke Times, 25 May, 2007.
- 26. Kittle, "At the Starlite."
- 27. Matt Ehlers, "Out at the drive-in," The News & Observer. [Raleigh-Durham, NC], 28 March 2008. http://www.socaldims.com/apps/blog/show/87294-out-at-the-drive-in
- 28. Ibid. Ironically, "Shanty Tramp" is set in the rural South and features the story of a white girl who falls for a black boy, despite the sexual advances of a southern Evangelical preacher.
- 29. Anne Krishnan, "Movies Under the Stars; Starlite Drive-In remains Durham institution," Herald-Sun [Durham, NC], 10 July 2004, A1.
- 30. Hunter Lewis, "End of an Era?; Starlite Drive-In's screen goes up in smoke; owner says he'll rebuild, possibly within 30 days," Herald-Sun [Durham, NC], 23 August 2004, B1; Eric Olson, "Probe traces drive-in fire to hot mower; Workers start collection to rebuild screen," Herald-Sun [Durham, NC], 24 August 2004, C1.
- 31. "Briefs," Herald-Sun [Durham, NC], 27 August 2004, B5; Jim Shamp, "Starlite Hopes Bright; Wish list sparks renewal drive for fire-ravaged drive-in," Herald-Sun [Durham, NC], 3 September 2004, C1; John McCann, "Help Among the Ashes," Herald-Sun [Durham, NC], 12 September 2004, C1; Susan Broili, "Benefit dance hopes to bolster drive-in's rebuilding; Starlite's movie screen may be rebuilt next year," Herald-Sun [Durham, NC], D9; Ben Evans, "Starlite's screen could soon flicker anew," Herald-Sun [Durham, NC], 30 November 2004, A1.
- 32. "Starlite Drive In owner dies at age of 55; Groves rebuilt theater after fire destroyed its screen," Herald-Sun [Durham, NC], 13 March 2007, C3; [obit].
- 33. Drew Brooks, "Drive On In: Outdoor drive-ins may be dying, but two local theaters hang on," Shelby Star [Shelby, NC], 11 October 2007.
- 34. "History," Tiger Drive-In Theater, http://tigerdrivein.com/home/history/; Martha M. Ezzard, "A drive back in time; Screens at historic Tiger drive-in flicker back to life tonight," Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 10 April 2004, 1D.
- 35. Ezzard. Ezzard is co-owner of the Tiger Mountain Vineyard mentioned here.
- 36. Gardner Linn, "Drive in, put it in park," The Red and Black [University of Georgia], 25 January 2001, Variety. http://www.redandblack.com/variety/drive-in-put-it-in-park/article_f83376cb-7993-520c-80ab-1110098fe456.html]. For a more detailed discussion of the layout of the Commerce Drive-In, see Lonnee, 107-115.
- 37. Ronell Smith, "Dewy Rose drive-in bucking trend," Athens Banner-Herald, 3 June 2003 [http://onlineathens.com/stories/060303/mov_20030603008.shtml]; Kyle Wehrend, "Drive-in sets up shop," The Red and Black [University of Georgia], 26 August 2002, Variety [http://www.redandblack.com/variety/drive-in-sets-up-shop/article_315c98ee-0c48-5325-b725-87c879d0c3fb.html]; Danielle Hutlas, "Mazes more than corn," The Red and Black [University of Georgia], 13 October 2005, Out and About [http://web.archive.org/web/20090113172411/http://media.www.redandblack.com/media/storage/paper871/news/2005/10/13/OutAbout/Mazes.More.Than.Corn-2570682.shtml].
- 38. Scott Henry, "Drive-in revival: Hipsters and boomers alike rediscover the joy of watching a movie outdoors." Creative Loafing [Atlanta, GA], 26 June 2002 [http://clatl.com/atlanta/drive-in-revival/Content?oid=1237455].
- 39. Ibid.; Kathy Scruggs, "Police nab 13 in two-hour raid on vice strip; But Moreland Avenue residents hope crackdown isn't for show," Atlanta Journal and Constitution 4 August 1991, C1.
- 40. Lonnee, 122-124.
- 41. Robin T. Reid, "The Drive-In Theater Turns 75," Smithsonian.com, 28 May 2008, http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/drive-in.html?c=y&page=1.
- 42. "South Bay Drive-In," Cinema Treasures, http://cinematreasures.org/theater/15105/; Evelyn Barge, "Big picture, bright lights: Illuminating the area's most colorful silver screens," San Gabriel Valley Tribune, 23 May 2008, http://www.sgvtribune.com/ci_9322048; and Jay Allen Sanford, "Drive-In Theaters in San Diego: Complete Illustrated History 1947 thru 2008," San Diego Weekly Reader, 1 August 2008, online version, http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2008/aug/01/drive-in-theaters-in-san-diego-complete-illustrate/.
- 43. Henry, "Drive-In Revival"; Joey Ledford, "Lane Ranger; Twin's dark screens dim colorful past," Atlanta Journal and Constitution, 12 June 1998, C2; and Craig Schneider, "One last flick draws thousands; North 85's final screening has deep impact on nostalgic baby boomers," Atlanta Journal and Constitution, 15 June 1998, C1.
- 44. "Vendors Coming Attractions," Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 17 July 2008, Citylife, 9JE.


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Al Groh was self-absorbed and defiant until the humiliating end.
He exited the Scott Stadium turf as the University Virginia's football coach for the final time at 6:43 p.m., Saturday to a chorus of Virginia Tech fans chanting, "Keep Al Groh! Keep Al Groh."
Hard to blame the devilish Tech faithful. The Hokies had just routed the Cavaliers 42-13, their eighth victory in nine games against Groh, whose termination likely will come today.
As if that weren't bizarre enough, when asked about his future, Groh concluded his post-mortem news conference by unfolding a piece of paper and reading "The Guy in the Glass," a 1934 poem written by Dale Wimbrow.
Call it Take II, for Groh had done the same in the locker room.
"Coach Groh is a very well educated, smart, emotional man, and I think that poem captured his spirit," fullback Rashawn Jackson said. "It takes a big man to stand in front of a team and read something like that. It was very moving."
Perhaps it was moving in the locker room, where Virginia mourned the conclusion of a 3-9 season, 2-6 in the ACC. Perhaps Groh appeared big to his players, who seem to respect, admire, and yes, love him.
But in the media room it was calculating, awkward and just plain weird. In the media room, Groh looked as beaten as his team.
The five-stanza verse challenges readers to look in the mirror and reflect on their deeds, a time-honored and worthy theme.
But again, that wasn't enough for Groh. He then launched into the following self-description:
"When I visited the guy in the glass, I saw that he's a guy of commitment, of integrity, of dependability and accountability. He's loyal. His spirit is indomitable. And he is caring and loving. I'm sure I will always call the guy in the glass a friend."
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Virginia will fire him because this is the Cavaliers third losing season in four years and their fourth in his nine. George Welsh, Groh's predecessor, had two losing records in 19 seasons despite inheriting a laughingstock.
Virginia will fire Groh because 3-9 is the program's worst finish since 2-9 in Welsh's 1982 debut, and because fans abandoned the product in record number.
Saturday's crowd of 58,555 was nearly 3,000 shy of capacity, and probably half the folks here were Hokies. The season average of 47,986 was easily the worst since the stadium's 2000 expansion.
Groh must be held accountable for that precipitous decline.
That decline was startlingly evident in Saturday's second half, when the 14th-ranked Hokies (9-3, 6-2 ACC) outscored the Cavaliers 28-0 and outgained them 262 yards to 95.
Tech was clinging to a 14-13 lead when Virginia cornerback Chris Cook intercepted Tyrod Taylor in the end zone for the game's first turnover midway through the third quarter. But two plays later, Cavaliers quarterback Jameel Sewell and tailback Mikell Simpson mishandled an option pitch, which Kam Chancellor recovered for the Hokies and returned to the 10-yard-line.
Two Ryan Williams bursts later, Tech led 21-13.
"After that it all fell down," Groh said.
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Virginia players had spoken throughout the week about this being their bowl, about ending Groh's five-game losing streak against Tech. And an eight-point margin crushed their spirit?
Again, the coaching staff is accountable.
"We made a pretty good go of it for a little while," Groh said of the game.
He might as well have been referring to his Virginia tenure, which included four straight bowl invites from 2002-05 but concluded with a six-game losing streak and a 59-53 record.
Senior linebacker Aaron Clark described the locker room emotions as "pretty raw. That's a tough one to deal with. A lot of the seniors are pretty heartbroken. …
"It's tough to go out like this. We really wanted to give this to Coach Groh. … He's a great guy, he's a great coach, and I love the guy."
As Clark spoke, Groh's family lingered. His daughter, Ashley Anne, was in tears, holding her children's hands. His wife, Anne, clutched a yellow rose in her right hand.
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Video game sales are down! There is doom and gloom! Wailing and gnashing of teeth! The sky is falling! Unless, that is, you're in the accessory or peripheral business.
A comparison by Gamasutra, using NPD Group numbers, has shown that while software and hardware sales in August 2009 were down on 2008's numbers, sales of "accessories" increased by 2.3%.
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Signaling a desire to return to public life, retired Gen. David H. Petraeus offered an apology Tuesday for the scandal that led to his resignation as director of the CIA and brought an illustrious career to an abrupt end.
Petraeus has kept a low profile since admitting to an extramarital affair with his biographer, Paula Broadwell, in November.
The speech, at a USC dinner honoring veterans and ROTC students, is the first step in what appears to be a carefully choreographed comeback bid.
Before about 600 guests in a hotel ballroom in downtown Los Angeles, a contrite Petraeus acknowledged that he is "regarded in a different light now" than he was a year ago.
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As commander of U.S.-led forces in Iraq, he helped turn around the war. He also led NATO forces in Afghanistan before retiring from the Army in 2011 to become intelligence chief.
Petraeus resigned Nov. 9, citing "extremely poor judgment" for engaging in the affair, which came to light during an FBI investigation.
Later that month, Petraeus testified behind closed doors at two congressional hearings on the attack by heavily armed militants in the Libyan city of Benghazi that killed U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans last year.
But until Tuesday, he had generally avoided public appearances, retreating to his home in Arlington, Va. Friends and former aides said Petraeus was focusing on his family.
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He is among the world's most recognised sporting figures and he earns an after-tax salary of $461,000 a week from Real Madrid. Now, Portuguese superstar Cristiano Ronaldo has taken up cudgels on behalf of a penniless Florida student who is in trouble for running on to the pitch and hugging him during a game in Miami.
Ronald Gjoka, 19, was one of 70,000 fans at an exhibition game between Real Madrid and Chelsea at the Sun Life Stadium in August. Sitting close to the sidelines and wearing a Ronaldo jersey, Gjoka said he was overcome by the moment and sprinted on to the field to greet his footballing hero.
His actions earned him two days in jail and charges of trespassing and disorderly conduct, which Ronaldo himself now wants dismissed after writing an emotional letter on the Albanian-born Canadian student's behalf to the Miami-Dade state attorney's office.
"My name is Cristiano Ronaldo, and I play football (soccer) for Real Madrid," the letter, obtained by the Miami Herald, begins. "I was playing at Sun Life Stadium last month when a fan entered the field. His name is Ronald Gjoka, a young college student. We hugged, and we spoke for a while, until security arrived to escort him off the field. He was not aggressive or violent in ANY way. In addition, he did not resist security or police in any possible way."
Ronaldo's letter concludes: "I am concerned because I understand he may face potential problems with immigration and with his college if the criminal charges against him are not dismissed. I understand your position and the importance of enforcing rules and laws. However, I respectfully request that you and your office reconsider this decision and dismiss the two criminal charges this young man faces. Sincerely, Cristiano Ronaldo."
The newspaper said Ronaldo's lawyers in Portugal asked the player to write the letter, then posted it after Richard Hujber, a football fan in Boynton Beach, Florida, wrote to them soon after the episode. A note from the lawyers on an embossed letterhead accompanied Ronaldo's message, to prove its authenticity.
"He [Gjoka] is just a huge soccer fan who made a mistake," Hujber told the Herald. "It was stupid what he did, but he's a really bright kid, and I would hate for these low-level misdemeanours to affect his academic future or perhaps his immigration status. Ever since 9/11 student visa holders are scrutinised much more closely."
Despite the footballer' best efforts, the case against Gjoka is set to move ahead in court in Miami on Monday. Ed Griffith, a spokesman for the state attorney's office, said Ronaldo's letter was "very, very nice" but would have no effect because he was not the aggrieved party.
This article originally appeared on guardian.co.uk


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IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) Aaron White had a career-high 27 points and Iowa beat Penn State 76-67 Thursday night, snapping a two-game losing streak.
Melsahn Basabe had 10 points and 10 rebounds in his first start of the season for the Hawkeyes (14-7, 3-5 Big Ten), who hit 31 free throws in 39 tries.
Iowa took the lead with an early 14-0 run and never looked back against the last winless team in Big Ten play. The Hawkeyes let Penn State creep back within 69-62 with 1:30 left, but White answered with a three-point play for Iowa.
D.J. Newbill had 20 points for Penn State (8-13, 0-9), which committed 18 turnovers.


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Tropical Storm Debby lashed parts of Florida with driving rains and high winds on Monday, threatening to trigger more flooding and tornadoes as it hovered off the state's northern Gulf of Mexico coast.
With tropical storm-force winds extending outward up to 230 miles (370 km) from its center off the northwest coastal town of Apalachicola late Monday afternoon, forecasters said Debby menaced a broad swath of inland territory with flash flooding from torrential downpours.
Florida Governor Rick Scott declared a state of emergency and a tropical storm warning was in effect along much of the Gulf coastline, from the Florida Panhandle down through the central west coast.
"Because of the broad impact of Tropical Storm Debby, virtually every county in Florida could be affected," Scott said in a statement announcing the statewide emergency.
"Some communities are already grappling with flooding, wind damage and electrical outages," said Scott, who ordered all state agencies, including the
Florida National Guard, to provide any necessary assistance requested by local governments.
The Miami-based National Hurricane Center said Debby, the first named storm of 2012 to move into the Gulf of Mexico, was packing top sustained winds of about 45 miles per hour (72 kph) and forecasters predicted little change in strength over the next couple of days.
Over the weekend, the storm idled about a quarter of U.S. offshore oil and natural gas production in the Gulf of Mexico, based on figures issued by U.S. offshore regulators.
But on Monday, big offshore Gulf of Mexico drillers like BP Plc and Royal Dutch Shell began returning staff to offshore platforms.
Torrential Rainfall
Forecast models show Debby making landfall along the northern Florida Gulf Coast by Thursday. It could dump more than a foot (30 cm) of rain in some areas of the state, with isolated amounts of more than two feet (64 cm) in north Florida, the hurricane center said.
Flash flood warnings were in effect for many areas and the Florida Division of Emergency Management has cautioned that inland flooding is associated with more than half the deaths from tropical cyclones in the United States over the last 30 years.
Steady rainfall spurred by Debby is expected to extend to southern areas of Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina.
Florida officials said the storm has left an estimated 35,000 people without power and forced the closure of a four-mile (six-km) bridge spanning Tampa Bay that connects the city of St. Petersburg with the Bradenton area.
The hurricane center also warned that more tornadoes were possible in parts of Florida and southern Georgia.
On Sunday, Debby spawned twisters that killed a woman, badly injured a child and wrecked homes in central Florida in rural Highlands County, according to an emergency management official.
Florida's Pinellas Country was also hit hard, with flash flooding in some areas and at least 20 houses with roofs that were partially or fully blown off during a tornado-like storm on Sunday.
In Alabama, rescuers continued a search on Monday for a swimmer who is presumed dead after he went missing off the Gulf Coast near Orange Beach on Sunday.
Debby is expected to continue veering away from the U.S. Gulf waters that are home to about 20 percent of U.S. oil and 6 percent of natural gas output. And the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port, which unloads about 1 million barrels per day of U.S. crude oil imports from giant tankers, said it was set to resume operations on Monday, after shutting Sunday due to rough seas.
But U.S. regulators said on Monday that Gulf of Mexico oil and gas operators had shut in 44.1 percent of daily oil and 34.8 percent of daily natural gas production because of Tropical Storm Debby, a near doubling of the oil total from Sunday.
Though Debby's track was still uncertain, the hurricane center said it could re-emerge and gain strength over the western Atlantic Ocean by next weekend.


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Can you recommend a great biodiversity project they should see and film? Contact the explorers! David Without Borders (David Sans Frontieres) is a quest by two young men to discover biodiversity efforts in 14 countries. From CEC member David Ainsworth of the Convention on Biological Diversity, a project supporter.
Two young men will visit 14 countries over the next seven months around the world with the goal of documenting some of the work done by communities, organizations and governments to promote biodiversity conservation. Their travels will be captured on video and posted to the web.
Follow their adventures!
English >
Francais >
The countries they intend to visit include:
- Costa Rica
- Peru
- Ecuador
- Argentina
- France
- Morocco
- Senegal
- Jordan
- Egypt
- Vietnam
- Thailand
- The Philippines
- Hong Kong
David Aimé and David Fabrega will travel the world to meet diverse biodiversity specialists, scholars and non-profit organizations that contribute to developing a more sustainable environment, and therefore preserve the vital, intrinsic gifts of nature. They will also interview and encourage locals to share their stories about their personal actions taken to preserve the Earth and how their life is currently impacted by environmental issues and contemporary sustainable development projects.
The David without Borders team's mission is to bring up the fragility and richness of biodiversity through projects of hope in their eco-friendly adventure.
The editors focus on a variety of components in the journey, including; the adventurers' dynamic personalities, their shared name, keeping a vegetarian diet in diverse countries, as well as supporting current ecological initiatives by sharing it with audience from Canada and France.
The explorers will travel around the world with a High Definition camera in order to gather the most current information from local entrepreneurs, scientists, and communities on biodiversity and sustainable development topics. These topics have a great impact on both regional and national regions.
Pictures and Micro-documentaries will be distributed on the WebTV site. These Microdocumentaries will be condensed to 5 minutes long episodes in order to ensure that the most relevant and compelling information is transmitted in an interesting format.
The website will also contain posts and editorials in order to elaborate on the documentary information.
Furthermore, the adventurers will also continuously document the voyage with a diary, which will then be edited and turned into a book about the adventure and contemporary multinational biodiversity projects.
How to contact: English > Francais >
David Aimé [email protected]
Biodiversity, business development,logistics, communications, multilingual private jokes…
Biodiversité, développement du projet, logistique, communications, humour multilingue…
David Fabrega [email protected]
Photography, video, graphic design, web programming, experimental cooking…
Photographie, vidéo, design graphique, développement web, cuisine expérimentale…
List of partners >
Source: Newsletter of the IUCN Commission on Education and Communication (July 2010). Visit the CEC website


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Mayor rolling the dice on Pre-K
Mayor Julián Castro believes he has a plan to dramatically change the future of San Antonio's workforce, and it begins with 4-year-olds.
He'll ask the City Council on Thursday to call a sales-tax election for Nov. 6 to fund a program that would improve and expand pre-kindergarten.
Castro and others expect the Pre-K 4 SA program would better prepare children for learning throughout their school years and eventually produce a more highly educated workforce that would create and attract jobs that pay more. The program targets children who meet certain financial, language and family guidelines.
The council undoubtedly will take the issue to voters, but probably not unanimously, as Castro would like.
Voters will be asked to approve a 1/8th-cent sales tax — pushing the rate here to the state maximum of 8.25 percent — for an initial eight-year period.
That portion of the tax, which would cost a household earning the median income of $43,152 an extra $7.81 annually, is expected to raise an average of $31 million a year.
It would be supplemented by state and federal funding from participating school districts.
Castro has placed a large bet on the Pre-K 4 SA initiative and can't afford to lose. He's staked his mayoral tenure on it and needs to win at home as his national stature continues to grow.
Next month, Castro will present the keynote address on the opening night of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. He's also expected to campaign for President Barack Obama in key states with large Latino populations.
While on the road, he'll need to persuade fiscal conservatives back home to approve a sales tax increase to fund an education initiative, an area once foreign to municipal government.
But given the new budget-slashing era in state politics, local leaders say it's prudent to bolster education in San Antonio.
More Information
'Education mayor'
Aug. 11: Elected in May, Mayor Julián Castro outlines his plan for the creation of an early-education pilot program.
Sept. 27: Celebrates the opening of Café College, a center offering free guidance to San Antonians pursuing higher education.
Jan. 22: States he'll take an active role in school board elections and that he would support former City Council colleague Patti Radle if she ran for an SAISD board seat.
March 19: SA2020, a master plan for improving the city, formally launches. Castro appoints business leaders Joe Robles, USAA's president and CEO, and Charles Butt, chairman and CEO of H-E-B, to lead his Brainpower Initiative Task Force.
May 14: Easily wins re-election.
Aug. 24: Café College nearly triples in size with the opening of a new computer lab, courtyard and classrooms.
March 23: Talks up his Brainpower Initiative at his State of the City address.
May 29: Kicks off the San Antonio Public Library Summer Reading Program.
June 20: Brainpower Initiative Task Force recommends San Antonio adopt a 1/8-cent sales tax to fund an early-childhood education initiative.
Source: Express-News articles
Compiled by News Researcher Michael Knoop
"We're one legislative session away from the biggest and most devastating education cuts this state has ever seen," Councilman Diego Bernal said. "As a community, we can either stand by and watch as spectators, or we can act and participate."
The results of a poll conducted by the Pre-K 4 SA campaign, obtained by the San Antonio Express-News, show that initiative is attractive to San Antonio voters. About 64 percent of likely voters support it, the results show. But pollster David Metz warns in a memo on the polling data that "much of the support for the measure is concentrated among Democrats, younger voters, Latinos and lower-income voters, some of the segments of the local electorate whose turnout is most uncertain in November."
If those voters turn out in lower numbers than in the 2008 presidential election, the initiative "will face a much narrower margin of support," he wrote.
The memo underscores the importance of Castro's appointment of strong business leaders to the Brainpower Initiative Task Force, which studied — and eventually recommended — creating the pre-K program.
Business backers
Support from USAA President and CEO Joe Robles and H-E-B Chairman and CEO Charles Butt — co-chairmen of the task force — bolsters the credibility of the initiative for the local business community. That likely will help Castro at the ballot box in November.
With notable business leaders on board, the question remains how effective any potential opposition from council members might be.
San Antonians have shown a willingness to OK sales-tax increases. Voters have approved them to fund the construction of the Alamodome, the Advanced Transportation District, Edwards Aquifer protection and the development of creekside trails.
"Mayor Castro has to convince the public that an investment of less than 70 cents a month will return large, long-term dividends in the education of the city's children, the quality of the labor force and our businesses, and the attractiveness of the city to all of its residents," local political expert Richard Gambitta said. "This is a good test for a world-class leader in times of economic austerity."
To Castro, the poll results show a commitment to educational achievement across the city.
"Folks understand the importance of being bold on education," he said.
"Brainpower is the new currency of success in the 21st-century global economy. In order to be economically competitive in the future, it's going to become even more important that San Antonio produce a well-educated workforce."
The details of Pre-K 4 SA have just taken shape, but the concept of fundamentally changing the local education landscape has been a goal of Castro's for years.
An Express-News report in 2009 about the mayor's first 100 days in office foreshadowed what would become his central themes: downtown revitalization and early education.
A year later, Castro rolled out SA2020, his long-range planning project. He envisioned San Antonio as a "brainpower community" and announced that he would wade into school board politics — territory his predecessors avoided. SA2020 highlighted education as one of the key areas for change.
By September 2010, Castro had floated his intention to fund the Brainpower Initiative — a then-nebulous plan to "move the needle" in kindergarten readiness, dropout prevention or college matriculation.
This summer, Castro's task force recommended to the City Council a proposal to create what's now known as Pre-K 4 SA. It handed off the details to City Manager Sheryl Sculley and her staff, who spent several weeks crafting a proposal — complete with a budget and an implementation plan.
Sculley's recommendation includes four "model centers," which would be staffed by master teachers and potentially populated by students from 15 school districts. She's suggested a three-year ramp-up to full capacity.
During those first three years, Pre-K 4 SA would exist only in the model centers. Two centers would open the first year and another two the second year.
In the fourth year, local school districts would augment the centers by competing for grant-funded spaces they would provide on their own campuses.
Enrollment would reach capacity with 2,000 students in model centers and 1,700 served on school districts' campuses and other partner programs — totaling 3,700 students served each year.
Over the eight-year period, the city expects 22,400 students would be educated in Pre-K 4 SA. Even when the program is running at full capacity, there still wouldn't be space for an estimated 2,000 4-year-olds annually who qualify for the program based on criteria, including family income.
The program hinges on high-quality teaching. It calls for bettering the state minimum standard student-to-teacher ratio of 22-to-1 recommended by the Texas Education Agency for kindergarten through fourth grade. In the model centers, a teacher and an aide would be assigned to a 20-student classroom.
City officials said the program would recruit master teachers, who would earn higher salaries — about $60,000 in the first year of the program and about $72,400 by the eighth year — than districts typically pay beginning teachers.
Pre-K 4 SA would also train educators — teachers, aides and administrators from across the city — who work with 4-year-olds through third-graders, so the gains made in pre-K aren't lost later. It would also require regular parent involvement.
Tax boost politics
A presentation from Sculley and her staff Wednesday won unanimous praise from council members, including those who have yet to support the initiative.
Councilman Reed Williams said the proposal is no longer "fuzzy," but he hasn't decided whether the pre-K program is defined enough for him to take to voters.
Councilman Carlton Soules, the most likely to vote Thursday against calling the sales-tax election, won't say that he outright opposes it.
"Whether or not they can put together a program that is well buttoned down enough that I think it should go on the ballot, I don't know," he said. "I'm not there yet."
Soules' opposition often comes in the form of a series of questions about the minutiae of a proposal.
"That's Carlton. When he doesn't like something or doesn't support it, the way he shows it is by asking a myriad of questions," Bernal said, chuckling. "And I like that about him."
Bernal counts himself among Pre-K 4 SA's supporters.
"But I also fully support the idea that we leave it to the residents to decide in a democratic way if this is what they want," he said.
With the council support locked up, Castro has begun focusing on voters. He asked for support from the North Chamber of Commerce during a Friday luncheon and will continue to emphasize the outcome of the pre-K program: a better-educated workforce.
"And for those folks these days who are wondering about me politically, I'm putting on my resume a tax increase for a benefit that we're not going to see during my term in office," he said. "I hope folks understand this is not about next quarter's results — or politics. It's about the future economic prosperity of our city."


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|2008-01-12, 23:34
|Link #1
Missing In Action
Saimoé - a word that can be divided into two parts: the former, meaning ultimate, and the latter, derived from the verb "moeru", to burn with passion.
Since 2002, the Saimoe contest generated beautiful battles, as thousands of anime-lovers around the world gave their all to ensure that their favorite girl will win. This prestigious battle has long since defined the term "moé". Champions from young girls emerged, and they gave way to glory. In 2006, this prestigious contest became even more prestigious, expanding from the land of the Rising Sun to lands from the four corners of the world. Not only did Japan garner attention, but so did Korea, and for the past couple of years, the contest has become unique, one of a kind contest that has long since given attention to names - names that will be inscribed in Saimoe history forever.
However, Saimoe tournaments of Korea and Japan have also received much criticism from the disappointed. The single-elimination tournaments held in Japan and Korea were decided at random, and while only the best were able to enter, randomized pairings shattered dreams of many, and raised hopes for others. In the end, only the best of all girls survived.
Now, it is time for the innovation, the experience and the glory of the new age. 64 have been chosen to take part in the first round robin league, where the top 16 girls will move on to the double-elimination tournament for one of the most prestigious titles in the world. Now, 63 matches await each. All that is left now is to do battle. With a immensely elite field, many questions remain to be answered.
Is Clannad the new dominance in Saimoé, or does that feat still belong to Hayate no Gotoku?
Can old-timer Cardcaptor Sakura actually compete with the new girls?
Could Haruhi Suzumiya finally get that elusive Saimoé tiara, or will China champion Konata Izumi stop her very idol?
Will Suiseiseki bring Rozen Maiden back from the void to win her third title, or will Shana join her greatest rival as a multi-champion?
All that remains to be answered. And it all begins here.
International Saimoe League 2008
Where watching anime can make a difference.
This is the first year we're running this special event! Now go make a difference!
We are currently looking for help to run this league, such as technical support (resume required), character profile writers, and especially translators, namely, translators fluent in Japanese, Korean, and Chinese. If anyone is interested, PM me or e-mail me at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Various AnimeSuki members have agreed to help out with the character profiles. Profile pics are still out there, so if you want to help out, qtipbrit92 has left psd instructions on how to do them.
Spoiler for AnimeSuki's contestant profile pictures current assignments:
By the way, by moderator rules, there have been some additional rules for this particular thread.
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|2008-01-13, 17:31
|Link #2
Missing In Action
5 - Ayu Tsukimiya (Kanon) - I was looking at some previous statistics from Saimoe and Korea Best Moe 2007 as research for character profiles, and if there were any contestants with the potential to make some success, it has to be Ayu, hands down. She alone has garnered a lot of attention outside of Kanon, being referred to by many references. She had the potential to reach at least the top 16, which was the initial qualifier for this tournament, and was shot down by Eruruu by only 46 votes in Saimoe's second round. A bad drawing in Korea also kept her out of it, as she was beaten by the one and only Suiseiseki by only 84 votes. Ayu is the only girl not in this tournament that has lost to Suiseiseki by less than 200 votes. Therefore, she NEEDS to get in this.
4 - Kotomi Ichinose (Clannad) - Sorry, I got hit by a trance spell. She's just so moe...
3 - Saber (Fate/Stay Night) - Being that this is an international league, I do kind of feel guilty for leaving China's Saimoe out of this. However, due to lack of international participation, I could not include China's Saimoe to qualify here. Because Saber finished in the top 4, I thought I might as well give her some recognition.
2 - Runa Edomae (Seto no Hanayome) - She's not well known to me personally, since I really never see her in action given I have never watched this series, but she did beat eventual Korea champion Hinagiku Katsura by only 29, and also competed intensely with '05 Japan Champ Nanoha Takamichi before losing by 44. That's enough potential to get her into this league.
1 - Sakura Kinamoto (Cardcaptor Sakura) - '02 champ. Started off Saimoe history. I think she needs to get in as well.
|2008-01-13, 19:50
|Link #3
Witch of Betrayal
Join Date: Jan 2006
Okay, let's do this...
5 pts- Aaeru (Simoun). This is the longest shot of my nominations, so I'll give her the most points.
4 pts- Ayano Kannagi (Kaze no Stigma). Out of all pyro girls (personal fetish of mine) she has the best chances. Go Ayano!
3 pts- Shion Yasuoka (Shion no Ou).
2 pts- Chika Ogiue (Genshiken). These two have two forms of unexplainable charm. I'll nominate 'em for originality's sake.
1 pt- Kyou Fujibayashi (Clannad). Can't ignore the ever-perfect KyoAni works, no matter how overpopular they are. Here's to my favourite Clannad girl.
|2008-01-13, 21:46
|Link #4
Stick Figure
Join Date: Jul 2007
Ok... I nominated...
5 - Nagisa / Clannad
4 - Kyou / Clannad
3 - Kotomi / Clannad
2 - Suzu / Nagasarete Airantou
1 - Mei Mei / Nagasarete Airantou
I voted like that because I did not want to use thinking power. I liked those characters anyway so random pick. XD
Btw, minhtam2448, browser issue. I used Firefox to look up the site and it's alright. So no more problems there. (wtf, IE7)
|2008-01-13, 22:12
|Link #5
The Last of Omega Clan
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Portugal
Age: 34
5 Points Sakura Kinomoto Card Captor Sakura
What else can i say? it's Sakura... Kawaii...
4 Points Kagami Hiiragi Lucky Star
3 Points Mikuru Asahina Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu
2 Points Ayu Tsukimiya Kanon (2006)
1 Points Kyou Fujibayashi Clannad
4 out 5 from KyoAni
|2008-01-13, 22:19
|Link #6
Missing In Action
Kagami Hiiragi and Mikuru Asahina are dead nominations, since both characters have already qualified in this tournament via a top 16 finish in the Korea tournaments. I'm looking at the nomination results right now, so if you re-submit with the same IP address, I'll fill in the 4 and 3 points for you.
|2008-01-14, 03:29
|Link #8
a small cat
Grats, your efforts paid off.
here's my list of nominations:
5 pts - Asami Hoshino (Myself; Yourself)
4 pts - Nanaka Yatsushiro (Myself; Yourself)
3 pts - Matsuri Shihou (sola)
2 pts - Aono Morimiya (sola)
1 pt. - Ayu Tsukimiya (Kanon 2006)
|2008-01-14, 04:17
|Link #9
Missing In Action
|2008-01-14, 05:54
|Link #12
Stick Figure
Join Date: Jul 2007
|2008-01-14, 06:48
|Link #14
Missing In Action
EDIT: Alright, I've contacted five. Let's see if they spread the word.
And personally, I want to see Sakura vs. Suiseiseki myself. Not only that, but her parallel self, Tsubasa Chronicle's Sakura, already initially qualified. The young meet the old.
Oh, and one more thing, if you have been following the Anime Saimoe 2007 Tournament Proper thread in the last few weeks, you knew that I was holding off character profiles until the nomination form was set up. As it turns out, I'm back to writing them. Fate Testarossa's profile is finished, as is her individual schedule.
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|2008-01-14, 11:51
|Link #17
Lore Hunter
Been a few days since I nominated. Lessee... it was... Aono, Ayasaki Hermione (aka Hayate), Guchiko, Hanyuu and... forgot the 5th one. My Moe Radar is currently pointing towards RosenKreuzStilette and Touhou, so it's been hard to think of anime characters.
|2008-01-14, 12:00
|Link #18
Kaede/Ama Fan boy
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Australia >< It suxz
Age: 28
5 pts- Sakura Kinomoto (Cardcaptor Sakura) -easily the most kawaii character ever
4 pts- Tomoyo Daidōji (cardcaptor Sakura)
3 pts- Kaede Fuyou (Shuffle!)
2 pts- Ama Shigure (Shuffle!)
1 pt- Kyou Fujibayashi (Clannad)
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