Quote Originally Posted by SyGolden48236 View Post
I do remember the Bel-Air drive in on Eight Mile just east of Van Dyke where the mostly empty Bel-Air strip mall is now.
I remember that place. We used to go there with my cousins. You could actually see the screens there for quite some distance. I once stopped almost dead in the middle of 8 Mile when I saw one of the fight scenes from Raging Bull looming over the street 30 feet high. I was so fascinated that I parked across the street and watched some of the movie without sound.

I also remember the old East Side Drive-In near the Ford Fwy. and Moross. My grandparents used to take me and my cousins there in our pajamas when we were kids. Later, it got a somewhat different crowd. That was the first place I ever bought a joint, off of some kid hanging around the bathrooms.