Posts from Stumpy in thread „Anyone still have an active drive-in theater in their area?“

Quote from Jay J. Foraker

Yeah, Jim, he could be a hoot!

Here's a typical Joe Bob column.

If you google Joe Bob Briggs, it brings up several sites that pertain to him. The first one, if I remember correctly, is his personal web site, which contains an archive of columns. As I said, many of them are absolutely hilarious.

I seem to recall that Joe Bob suffered the same fate as the Imus guy who just got bounced. He wrote something in a column that was politically incorrect, upset the wrong "victim" group, and the Dallas Times Herald decided to drop his column. Which is when I stopped reading the Herald, since the only reason I ever read that left-wing rag anyway was to get a big laugh from Joe Bob's columns.

Twenty-five or so years ago the family and I lived near Dallas (TX). One of the Dallas newspapers had a columnist who called himself Joe Bob Briggs, "Drive-In Movie Critic", who appeared on a regular basis. (If I remember correctly, the guy's real name was John Bloom.)

Anyway, "Joe Bob" was hilarious in his description of various movies appearing in Dallas drive-ins of that period. Although I think Bloom was actually a pretty sophisticated guy, he adopted an exaggerated "good-old boy", down-home persona in writing his columns. Sounded like one of the worst rednecks you ever saw or heard of. Anyone else ever remember reading any of Joe Bob's columns.

Believe it or not, there are several web sites about drive-in movie theaters in Texas. Here's one such site.