Drive-in to Grocery Store

I thought the other day as I visited our new Winco store which opened on April 14th, of how the land this store is on used to be a drive-in theater when we first moved here almost 23 years ago. The Renfro! Kind of a ratty place, but still cool to pile everyone into the car and go see a movie for super-cheap. We watched "Ghostbusters" at this drive-in. And other movies which I cannot remember now. Then it was closed a few years later, and all traces of a drive in theater were torn down, leaving an empty lot. We were told at the time that a new movie theater was going to be built there, but it ended up being built elsewhere. This land stood vacant for probably close to 20 years, I guess. Then one day a little more than a year ago, some bull-dozing activity began to take place.

We heard by our neighborhood newsletter that Winco was building a new store there. Now they already had one not too far from us, which was the original one in our town and had been there for close to 20 years. But it was smaller than other Winco's built here, and it was only a matter of time until it was updated. I guess they decided it would be easier to just build a whole new store than to try to remodel the old one.

Now it's open, and it is bigger and shiny and new. But I won't shop here without remembering the good ol' days, and our long-lost drive-in theater.