Standing an evident six stories precocious and topped with a many-pointed star, the West Wind Drive-In’s motion beckons with neon lettering, “THEATRE.” Turning our car successful and pulling up to the summons booth, we walk nether lightbulb-lined parabolas jutting retired of the factual similar portals to a simpler time.
A affable attendant welcomes america and scans a QR codification that was emailed to maine erstwhile I bought the tickets online ($7.50-$10.25 for adults). She hands maine a portion of insubstantial that says our batch fig and the FM presumption we tin tune into for our movie’s audio. No downloading an app required, conscionable the good, old-fashioned radio.
We travel cones and signs to our monolithic surface and propulsion into a parking spot. With the beforehand wheels perched atop a berm successful the pavement, the windshield is raised to a perfect, movie-viewing angle. We rotation down the windows, termination the motor and get comfortable.
A summertime breeze carries the cooling aerial arsenic the past bits of pinkish and purple sunset melt into the night. Helicopters duck down the surface and onshore astatine the adjacent North Las Vegas airdrome similar roosting birds. Families heap retired of their cars and physique campy with tract chairs and coolers. Some backmost into spots and unfastened their trunks, revealing afloat mattresses inside. Kids tally around, returning lone to inquire for a small wealth for the snack barroom and arcade games.
When the projector flicks on, we each tune in—each successful our ain capsules, and yet successful community, softly reveling successful the amusement of cinema nether the stars.
Bring snacks
Concessions are disposable astatine West Wind’s snack bar, but if you’re trying to prevention a fewer bucks, wherefore not bring your ain picnic? Pre-popped popcorn and pretzels are bully staples, arsenic good arsenic candy that won’t melt (leave the cocoa astatine home). Coolers are indispensable for drinks—icy delights connected a blistery night.
Get comfy
Come aboriginal to get a bully spot. West Wind’s drive-in has intelligibly marked parking and berms toward the beforehand of each parking spot, angling the car up toward the screen. Sit backmost and ticker done your beforehand windshield, oregon backmost into a spot and acceptable up astir your unfastened trunk. There’s nary 1 mode to recline.
Hear america out
Full transparency, the representation and dependable prime of the drive-in conscionable can’t measurement up to a due indoor movie theater. But with the drive-in experience, you prevention immoderate wealth and you summation truthful much—being capable to shriek astatine afloat measurement astatine that leap scare, for instance, oregon having a speech astir the movie successful existent time.
WEST WIND DRIVE-IN 4150 W. Carey Ave., 702-646-3565, westwinddi.com.
Poolside Movies
The Cosmopolitan’s rooftop excavation flight is playing movies each Monday done August connected the resort’s 64-foot integer marquee. Parking is escaped with validation. Through Labor Day, The Pool astatine Sahara is projecting films connected its 240-foot LED video wall. And done September, Fontainebleau is screening classical comedies, blockbusters and household favorites each Sunday astatine its six-acre Oasis Pool platform ($5 admittance for locals).
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