Drive in Movie lots

[nad]

Friend of mine stopped over .His comment was, "Why don't you work over the old drive ins?" So, has anyone made it a point to shoot these areas?What settings,?? What would be the problems?? I figure slinging those soft drink containers may have salted a lot of rings away that "cherry picking" would have left. Cordially NAD

 

[tabdog]

Hay nad.

If it had a playground like one we had,

it may be killer.

Tha parkin area was covered with asphalt.

You never know.

I'll bet it's trashy.

Good Luck,

Tabdog

 

[JB(MS)]

Back in the middle 1990's I hunted two drive-in movies that closed in the late 1970's or early 80's. Both were graveled, really hard packed, and the digging was tough. One of them had only maybe a 20 by 40 yard area left, a by-pass for a new highway got the rest of it, and I only found a few coins there, but two were silver dimes. The other drive-in was still intact, actually it still is. The owner built a new, smaller, screen near the highway, re-opened it and started showing movies on weekends a few years after I hunted it but closed it again. I wasn't really expecting to do much good there as the owner said about a dozen people had already hunted it. First place I checked was the most obvious. That was directly under the pay window of the old ticket booth, in the edge of the trees at middle right in the photo, and I was really surprised. I got 8 silver quarters, one a 27 standing liberty, 13 silver dimes and a couple of bucks in clad. All of the silver coins were three to five inches down in the hard packed gravel, and likely why there were still there.

Didn't find much except pennies around the concession stand but on the rows where cars parked several more silver coins and some clad turned up. Wound up with 12 silver quarters, 33 silver dimes, around 40 wheaties and about $12 in clad. One of the dimes was a Barber, the others were Mecury and Roosevelts. It was tough, slow digging in the packed gravel. I had to hammer a big screwdriver into it with a hatchet to get most of the coins over an inch deep, but it was worth the time and effort. If it had actually been hunted, and it most likely had or more clad would have most likely been found, whoever hunted it evidently didn't know what they were doing or wasn't willing to put out the effort to get the deeper coins out of the hard packed gravel. Only one ring, and only because it was silver and gave a coin signal. I used a detector with notch and only recovered coin signals. There's so much trash I would probably still be hunting it if I had dug every signal that could have been a gold ring. Photo of the drive-in I hunted is from Virtual Earth.

 

[Elton]

n/t

 

[blowfly1967]

gee you still have drive-in movies in the states,we gave them away when we got colour tv. blowfly

 

[bhcarl]

I hunted that exact spot by the ticket booth about two years ago and found three silver quarters with the Tejon, hard packed gravel, about eight inches deep.

 

[JB(MS)]

I was using a Garrett Freedom III and running in coins only notch mode when I hunted there. Like most of the Garretts, the disc circuits read downscale on deeper targets and even if it had detected an 8 inch deep quarter it most likely would have moved it down into the notched out range. As hard as it was to get the coins out of the hard packed gravel there I probably would have given up before diggin 8 inches anyway. Give me a yell sometime and we'll see if two old geriatric codgers can still find a coin or two.