You have a few more weeks to catch a movie at Coyote Drive-In.<\/p>\n
Over the summer, my family hopped in the car one night and headed to the Coyote Drive-In in Fort Worth. Incredibly, I was the only one in the car who had ever been to a drive-in<\/a> theater. As a child, my family would pack up the station wagon with snacks and blankets for a double feature\u2014an early show for the kids, a PG movie later when the children all fell asleep, already dressed in pajamas. I explained the joys of watching a movie under the stars as we made our way downtown, and then made the turns to the field that looked like nothing during the day but turned into a communal space to watch cartoons, Jedi battles, love stories, or time travel once dusk arrived.<\/p>\n As it turns out, my family\u2019s first trip to a drive-in theater to watch Back to the Future would also be our last trip: This week, the owners of the 14-year-old Coyote Drive-In announced that the place would close after Labor Day. Why? Because the drive-in\u2019s original lease terms says the lease ends one the Trinity River Water District begins its construction of two new canals and a three-acre park exactly where the drive-in sits. That construction will commence in the near future.<\/p>\n The number of drive-in movie theaters in the country is dwindling for a variety of reasons: They often sit on giant plots of land that have become more valuable for development, for one. The move to digital projection is also a factor. There are roughly 300 in operation in the U.S., the New York Film Academy<\/a> says. Ohio, New York, and Pennsylvania each have almost 30, making them the states with the most. \u00a0Our guide to drive-in movies expanded a couple of years ago to include outdoor movies in general, but there are still five\u2014or rather, four and one closing next month\u2014on the list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You have a few more weeks to catch a movie at Coyote Drive-In. Over the summer, my family…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-411791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}