What's showing at the drive-in theater? In South Florida, it's mostly memories
One of the biggest and best known in South Florida, the Thunderbird Swap Shop near Fort Lauderdale and around since 1963, shut down more than a year ago after a fire.
Despite all but disappearing from the entertainement landscape, drive-in movies had a revival during the COVID years, with outdoor screens popping up around the Miami area, including downtown.
MORE: Remember movie palaces? South Florida had plenty — and Hollywood-style premieres, too
Let's open the photo album and take a look at drive-in movies in South Florida:
Boulevard
Thunderbird Swap Shop
Others around town
Drive-in revivals
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
Yahoo
2 hours ago
- Yahoo
Savannah Bananas star falls hard on his face while attempting backflip live on CNN: 'Oh, Jesus'
Kate Bolduan and John Berman watched in horror as RobertAnthony Cruz hit his mouth and chin on the CNN stage. A Savannah Banana just peeled off a bit of his face after a backflip gone wrong on a live CNN segment. RobertAnthony Cruz — also known by the name Coach RAC when he performs on the field with the Harlem Globetrotters-style exhibition sports troupe — appeared Thursday morning on the CNN News Central program, where he attempted to vault backwards into the air and land on his feet. Footage shared to social media (below) shows Cruz take his stance as anchor Kate Bolduan exclaims, "Oh, Jesus," just before he flips. Cruz then jumps into the air and lands hard on his face, leading to a few moments of stunned silence while he collects himself, and broadcast journalist John Berman tries to recover the segment. "That, what you just saw there, is a brand-new twist on America's favorite pastime," Berman says in the footage. When reached, a CNN spokesperson tells Entertainment Weekly via email that they're "glad he's okay and taking it in such stride," as Cruz later posted a video explanation to his social media followers. "Your boy's bouncing around the internet like a beach ball at a Nickelback concert," Cruz says in his video, in which he also reveals that he performed the segment on about four hours of sleep. He added that he spent the last four days coaching baseball for around 500 kids in Houston, before boarding a plan to New York City at 2 a.m. in order to make the live appearance. Cruz then elaborated on what happened leading up to the tumble. "So, we're backstage, and they ask me, 'Hey, you got any tricks up your sleeve that you want to do while we're live on the show?'" and said that it was his decision to do the backflip, as he's performed the trick "tens of thousands" of times in the past — including during a recent ESPN appearance that saw him catch a football in the air while doing a backflip. Cruz remembered sending the flip into the air, but "the next thing I know, I'm on the floor and I'm rattled," he explained. "I was pretty confused. My mic pack fell out of my pocket, my shoe flew off of my foot. I don't even know how that happened. I feel bad for the news anchors because they just sat there like, Okay, we're not supposed to laugh, but oh my gosh, that was funny," Cruz observed. "They just had to carry on. I'm so sorry, you guys!" Throughout the video, Cruz's lip appears bloody, which he said he also noticed shortly after he collided with the stage floor and wound up getting several stitches in his face. "Then, I see the blood dripping down from my chin and my lips, and I'm like, Okay, never mind, this day is probably canned," Cruz said, adding that an on-set doctor helped clean him up. "Obviously, I'm embarrassed," he continued and said that he "lost where I was in the air" due to bright lighting on the set. The Savannah Bananas are next set to perform a three-day set in Norfolk, Va., through July 26, before heading to Philadelphia for their next round of matches. Watch Cruz discuss his fall on CNN in the video above. Read the original article on Entertainment Weekly Solve the daily Crossword
NBC News
2 hours ago
- NBC News
'E! News' to end this year after 3 decades
The broadcast show 'E! News' will end this year, concluding a run that began in 1991 but which was interrupted during the Covid-19 pandemic, a source close to the situation said. The person confirmed the plans to cancel the broadcast show to NBC News, after the news was previously reported Thursday by Variety and other publications. Its final tape date will be September 25. Employees were notified Thursday morning. The entertainment network will remain online. "Access Hollywood" and "Access Daily" will continue its broadcasts. The broadcast show launched in 1991 but it was canceled in 2020 during the pandemic, which caused serious disruptions not only to the economy but also to studio shows. The broadcast show was brought back in 2022. E! is owned by NBCUniversal, the parent company of NBC News, but it will move along with other brands, including MSNBC and CNBC, to Comcast spin-off Versant, Comcast has said. NBCUniversal did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday. Comcast on Thursday announced its first board of directors for the planned spin-off. The spin-off will have under it USA Network, CNBC, MSNBC, Oxygen, E!, SYFY and Golf Channel and others, Comcast said.
Yahoo
3 hours ago
- Yahoo
Lifelong Fan of Princess Diana Mortgages Home Four Times to Purchase Items Connected to Royal
A chance encounter at age 12 with Princess Diana set Renae Plant on her lifelong mission to assemble a veritable museum of the late style icon's most memorable outfits. In fact, Renae mortgaged her home for the fourth time to secure 35 items connected to Di at the recent Princess Diana's Style & A Royal Collection sale in L.A., held by Julien's Auctions. She bid nearly $700,000 on a single dress: the famous Caring Dress (pictured), which the People's Princess wore during her second Australian tour in 1988. Renae's love for the late princess began with their run-in during Diana's first Australian tour in 1983. Renae skipped school to go to a factory in Yandina, Queensland, Australia, where Diana and then-Prince Charles were touring. Renae was shocked when Di saw her, made a bee-line and shook her hand. 'I was so enamored when I saw her … she was so beautiful,' recalls Renae, now 54. Mesmerized, the young girl ducked under a barricade and walked behind a procession of guards and ladies in waiting. It was then she noticed Diana had dropped a clay platypus someone had given her. 'I ran over to the police and said, 'Lady Di dropped this,'' Renae shares. 'He looked at me and said, 'She must have dropped this to give to you.' That tiny platypus sent me on a trajectory I could never have imagined.' All of the Diana items Renae has acquired over the years can be seen online at The Princess & The Platypus Foundation's Princess Diana Museum, named after Renae's run-in with Di, of course. Today, the museum contains 'tens and tens of millions' of dollars' worth of items. The roughly 2,730 pieces include the 1991 Versace dress Di wore on the cover of Harper's Bazaar and a pair of stunning diamond-and-pearl earrings given to the princess by Queen Elizabeth herself. Renae's recent auction win also includes the famed Falcon Dress, a custom cream silk crepe embroidered evening gown designed by Catherine Walker and worn by Diana on her 1986 Gulf Tour. The Di devotee is glad to have added the items to her collection. 'I feel so blessed to be able to preserve Diana's legacy,' Renae says. 'I truly believe she was looking over us. She knew those pieces had to end up in the Princess Diana Museum. Angels were looking over me, and I know she was one of them for sure.' Solve the daily Crossword
