When my husband and I were students at the University of Wyoming in the 80s and early 90s, we lived in a trailer court next to I-80 close to the overpass. The Skyline Drive-In was just beyond it, and its movie screens faced toward the highway, so we could actually watch what was showing from where we lived. Because of the thin and unobstructed air, on a clear night we could hear it, too. The experience was never near-paying ticket quality, of course, but it made the night a little less lonesome and more cozy knowing that there were things going on in the world while we were memorizing Krebs cycle and synthesizing chemicals, and balancing chemical equations and deriving carboxylic acid compounds with th Grignard reagents in our sleep.
Because of the special air quality and location, we’d sometimes drive up near the Lincoln Monument and watch the stars fall in meteor showers visible in the evening sky. When we tired of country music on the Curt Gowdy network, we had free PBS television programming because of the location of the transmitter on Pilot Hill.
When my husband and I were students at the University of Wyoming in the 80s and early 90s, we lived in a trailer court next to I-80 close to the overpass. The Skyline Drive-In was just beyond it, and its movie screens faced toward the highway, so we could actually watch what was showing from where we lived. Because of the thin and unobstructed air, on a clear night we could hear it, too. The experience was never near-paying ticket quality, of course, but it made the night a little less lonesome and more cozy knowing that there were things going on in the world while we were memorizing Krebs cycle and synthesizing chemicals, and balancing chemical equations and deriving carboxylic acid compounds with th Grignard reagents in our sleep.
Because of the special air quality and location, we’d sometimes drive up near the Lincoln Monument and watch the stars fall in meteor showers visible in the evening sky. When we tired of country music on the Curt Gowdy network, we had free PBS television programming because of the location of the transmitter on Pilot Hill.