My Obsession, and Reflection...

I love my "WOW" factor :)

Example in class today the teacher was asking us what we've done with our lives. Many people said they've gotten married, had kids, bought a new car, won a trophy for football, went to the Art Fair in Austin... and then She comes to me "Mr. Jordan, what have you done in your life..."  with out batting an eye, I reply "I own the Worlds Smallest Drive-In Movie Theater." = WOW factor.

It wasn't until I started digging through some of my old thing that I realized just HOW obsessed with Drive-In movie theaters I have been, and for how long! 

(My mother thought I was so dumb for taking a picture of a speaker post)

This is whats left of the "Chief" Drive -In movie theater in Quanah Texas, I  remember begging my parents to get off the main highway So I could jump out and take pictures in 2002!   The deeper I dug the more stuff I found. Such as this picture here.

 You'll have to look hard,(its not the best picture) but this Was the ticket booth of my very first Drive -In movie theater. "The Southern Palace" . My friends and I work so hard on this, See before the Casablanca existed, there was the city of "Stanford".  We started spring break of 2000 with two pieces of lattice and a can of paint. Stanford was a 20x20 square in the back yard under some pecan trees. Over the years we had 7 regular buildings in Stanford. The Governors mansion, The Hotel (later turned 50's diner), a "Theater" , The Old castle (turned into a general store later), The 50's flair cafe (That became the Drive-In),  A hardware store, and the Snack Stand of the Drive -In.  During the summer kids would come from all over town on their bikes to "play" in Stanford.  We were Always building and improving.  I remember working all summer to save money to by red bricks to pave the street in Stanford! A lot of those bricks ended up at the Casablanca. We'd Have Dances. and Dinners and Festivals. I remember my mother almost having a stroke when she found out we'd wired the entire city for electricity using a series of extension cords and 3 way plugs haha!  Stanford Lived on for 7 years. Spring break and all through the summer with the then "Copa" (later to be Casablanca" on the back burner, and then one summer something tragic happened.... We all grew up.

You'd never even know it was there....

But from the ashes of Stanford bloomed the rose that is now the Casablanca.  Lets face it The C.H.&R. had a real roof, (not sheets of tin held together by duck tape!) and it was an honest to goodness house.  As we grew up the Casablanca became the new Stanford, we could drive and its the cool place to go. I just hope the Casablanca never goes the way Stanford did.  I will have to ask everyone If they have pictures of Stanford, so I can do a full post about it. Seems we never took enough pictures...

-Mick-