Yeah, unless you're a kid, Drive-Ins are about fogging up the windows, handjobs and oral sex. Aaaaah, memories.
There are still two Drive-In Theaters in the Baltimore area. One of them is called Bengies, and if you click on the picture below it'll take you to their website. The other Drive-In is the Bel Air, near Churchville, MD.
I've only been there a couple times. Favorite recent memory: as part of the Maryland Film Festival a few years ago, John Waters presented a double feature of movies by Brazilian spaltter/sexploitation king Jose Mojica Marins, aka "Coffin Joe". Coffin Joe was there, and rolled up in a casket in a hearse! Terrific stuff. Herschell Gordon Lewis, the true master of gore, and also a part of that MD Film Festival, was there with John Waters too. I'm truly not much of a Horror guy, but that was a fun night. Didn't think much of the movies (can't even remember which two they were), but fun was had by all. Not fogging the windows fun, but still.
The Drive-In I went to most as a kid and teenager was The Westview, in Catonsville, MD - which of course is no longer there. There was a huge hardtop theater there as well (eventually expanded to 12 screens), on the hill above the Drive-In. That's where most of my favorite early cinematic memories were born:
Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Conan the Barbarian, etc. I can still smell the popcorn. I do miss that place. It closed in '94 I believe. The Drive-In had closed about '89. There's a Circuit City where the theater was, and a Home Depot where the Drive-In stood. Sad.
You can actually get a glimpse of the old Westview Drive-In and theater in Barry Levinson's
Tin Men (1987) - the funniest of his four "Baltimore" pictures. In the scene where the Dreyfuss and DeVito characters leave the restaurant to fight in the parking lot,
THAT is the old Westview Drive-In in the background. The building they come out of that is supposed to be the exterior of the restaurant (and another wing made up as a coffee shop),
THAT is the Westview Theater. Aaaaah, memories.