Drive-In | Visiting with Huell Howser | KCET

Huell visits the Mission Tiki Drive-In movie theater and learns about its unique history.
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[@ScottMartinD]

You're dearly missed, Huell.

[@alexj7409]

He just straight up opened the door to they’re car 😂

[@jimbo3]

16:10 Huell is given a rare piece of local history, bangs it on the ground, "This should be in the Smithsonian." I love this guy lol

[@westtexasdave2140]

Huell made everything such an event. Made things so much fun.

[@tonyacosta3586]

One of a kind Huell 🙏

[@SenorQuichotte]

Huell was classic. He could make anything interesting.

[@24kRobot]

Huell brings out the absolute best to everyone and everything. He gets you excited for the amazing gems around the city. The locations and the people. 💙

[@travisp224]

huell is the best! RIP to him

[@johnallen2771]

I grew up in a small town in Ohio and the local drive-in theatre was the place to go. This was in the '50s and all of us kids would go in our pajamas. The movies were either so terrible or so boring that we kids usually fell asleep after we went to the snack bar and scarfed down. After the cartoons they played two movies. You know, Huell Howser really was a national treasure. His positivity and enthusiasm for just about everything should be an example for all of us Americans.

[@CeeDee01]

That sounds like so much fun. If only we were all able to have those good memories, especially the way things are today. Thanks for your comment!

[@noecardenas422]

2020 and the tiki mission drive-in still going strong 💪 best drive-in hands down

[@jonmacdonald5345]

I love it they even let you smoke bud in your car there!

[@mikep8182]

Not what I heard I heard it closed in 2019

[@noecardenas422]

@@mikep8182 nope ur wrong 2021 and still going strong I live 3miles away from tiki mission drive-in...i was there last week Friday watching Tom and jerry ...they have a Instagram also you should check it out 😁👌

[@mikep8182]

@@noecardenas422 Sorry about that my bad

[@thea2393]

@@noecardenas422 they sold Mission Tiki back in 2019 🙁 it’s only a matter of time that they shut down. Luckily COVID has let them stay open longer. Hopefully they stay open until the end of the year 🤞🏼

[@ralphbenites1819]

I remember going to the orange drive-in in the 70’s🎥🍿🍔🍟🌭🍕

[@thehapagirl92]

I wish I was outgoing like him. He has a bachelors in History from the University of Tennessee and I feel like if he’d gone on to earn his Ph.D he’d have been an amazing history professor at any college! He has that upbeat and genuinely positive and kind energy that students love.

[@AlreadyShort]

better as a preschool teacher

[@24kRobot]

Tennessee! That’s that twang I picked up. Thank you!

[@ricardokim4870]

#1 EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS

[@chrisstephens5310]

this takes me back to a good time in my life I wish that I could go back in time.....

[@pbberger2002]

Back in the '70s, when I was in high school, me and my friends would get a case of beer, a couple pizzas, and some weed and head for the drive-in. We'd have a great time.

[@GothGuy885]

Damn i miss those days

[@MrDLOC11]

Perfect idea for a post- corona movie experience.....

[@stefaniegarcia6219]

Watching these makes me so happy ❤ Huell was the best!

[@blastofo]

This place is going to have a come back now.

[@baller1805]

Miss Huell

[@andrewsandoz8005]

We used to go to the drive-in often. It was located on Lower Azusa Road in El Monte. Its now a Home Depot, fond memories.

[@concerned1313]

Drive in still open in August of 2020, perfect!

[@gerardoaguilar4235]

And it’s closed

[@mysticpluck8]

We went to the Sunland Drive-in, in SoCal. They had first run movies. We loved it. 2 movies with a cartoon in the middle! ❤

[@dr.hotpants3035]

He smashed the speaker on the ground then said it should be in a museum 🤣😂🤣

[@johnh1001]

MORE DRIVE IN'S ! ! ! ! Drive In's are the best ! ! ! ! DRIVE IN'S ARE THE BEST ! ! ! ! Ya Ya Ya ! ! ! !

[@sardu55]

This is a fun Huell video that I really enjoy. He limits the sort of fake 'my God, this is the smallest room I've ever seen', or his Mr. Rogers routine. Here he sticks to conventional questions and doesn't 'pooch' up his responses. Good job for our boy. This was from his 'Visiting with Huell Howser' series and was a 30-minute offering on PBS. One thing I like to do is if I'm down or depressed at times is to watch some of Huell's old California Gold episodes and it really cheers me up.

[@MsMaileMay]

"This should be in the Smithsonian." Bangs speaker on ground.

[@handsomepackage7004]

Back in the late 50’s and very early 60’s. The best pizza in town was at the drive in. There were no chain pizza parlors yet and frozen pizza was in its infancy here in Southern California.

[@foothillfoo5761]

We would to the 5 plex drive-in in San Jose off capital express way in the 80s . Didn't watch much of the movie!Took Dad's 57 Desoto loaded with people even the trunk!!

[@penngidget]

Sad to hear that the Tiki Mission Drive in is closing at end of 2019. It's the end of a Era, we use to have date night here. Great moments of time w my family watching movies and going to swap meets on weekends

[@CNFearless]

They're still open as of January 2021

[@jedburnell9046]

@@CNFearless I suspect the pandemic saved them.

[@DiogenesOfCa]

We need more content like this

[@travisp224]

This is out of business now, but they refer all to a place called Van Buren Drive-in in riverside, wow as I watch so many good ole Huell videos, ive gone to google these places and so many are out of business now, but these great vidoes will be with us for years!, thanks so much Huell!

[@lunarmagiclegend]

On my way to watch the new Jurassic World movie. Careful is you have a lowered ride. You can get stuck on the rumps ☺

[@ricardokim4870]

WONDER PLACES

[@GothGuy885]

i think I only got to go to a drive in once or twice as a kid before they fizzled out. but I was just a little guy, so I kinda missed out. glad some are still going somewhere close to where I live here in CA.

[@chyps9186]

2018 huell still going strong

[@diegochavez56duece]

Rip huel

[@kw882]

He dead

[@Hotters9060]

@@diegochavez56duece I miss Huell Howser.

[@Hotters9060]

@Go Guerilla Foto Huell Howser Is gone. He died back in 2013 and his body was cremated.

[@Hotters9060]

@@kw882 Huell Howser has been dead since 2013.

[@jackmonroe5531]

RIP to the Mission Tiki

[@MrPanama9red]

I asked my wife to marry me at the drive-in. Several years later we took our kids to the same drive-in. Sadly, it's gone now. Miss it a lot.

[@marci.5597]

Closed in January 2023 😞. 27 acres more valuable as an industrial park.

[@chrisyarbrough785]

Don't forget bologna and cheese cheese sandwich with miracle whip/ a jar of yellow peppers and Pepsi

[@ricardokim4870]

WONDER PROGRAMMER

[@stringermedia5875]

Perfect example of Huell grabbing, touching, picking up peoples personal property and sometimes very valuable things. In this episode he just bangs an old movie speaker on the ground?? Who does this?

[@H_A_F_GAMING]

Stringer Media that’s why we like to watch him stop being a hater

[@michaelochoa1264]

Lmfao. Thats what i said if that were mine id be like yo wtf dont do that.

[@Paiadakine]

I remember those old speakers.

[@GothGuy885]

Huell did, because he was from an era when people were less apt to to get their panties in a knot over every little infinitesimal thing.

[@chrisquintana7350]

i wish there was one in the valley :(

[@bearbriganti5203]

What a stud 😘

[@sardu55]

He had it all hanging out. I think this chain of drive-in places had one on Beach Blvd east to Huntington Beach

[@Sojourning_]

👍👍👍

[@jimapple5448]

I used to go there on the time back in the 1970s with my family . We would go see a rated g movie like Mary had a little lamb . However my older brother and I would be watching a rated x movie on the screen behind us titled how Mary got pregnant with that lamb .

[@jonmacdonald5345]

They NEVER showed X rated films there!

[@mohamadfaiz6935]

This episode was aired in 2003

[@gerardoaguilar4235]

Impossible Miami vice came out in 2006

[@JoshTheBassist]

Hey look. FILM REELS

[@sardu55]

12:30 'Baseball very, very good to me. Drive-in movie is American Way, unless you're a Republican.

[@merrillmilner8717]

The last drive-in I went to had played "Dragonslayer" and the picture quality was so bad that you could barely see anything on the screen when the they showed the dark scenes. I think they used lower wattage bulbs.

[@richardscott4318]

Sure wish they would've just left the Mission Drive-in a single screen theatre. Tearing down its original look (1:26) and replacing it with 4 crummy screens each the size of a shoebox was a lousy idea. Nostalgia...

[@ralphbenites1819]

I’v got a drive -in speker that I cut with a knife

[@KINGDUDE74]

Well its no longer there now. The family sold it to some developer to make more stupid warehouses. Like if we dont have enough of those everywhere. So sad. Wish the family wouldve sold it to someone else.

[@luisdelavega9152]

The theater is going to get developed into a warehouse in 2021. The corona virus has delayed their plans in 2020.

[@goonnew6861]

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