A Drive through Classic Americana in a Polestar 2

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Elana Scherr left home and took a step back to appreciate some of the old places in Los Angeles and the reappearing driving culture in 2020.

Car and driver

The wind is up. The flickering image of Jack Nicholson's face is faintly scattered with dark funnel clouds

Then tore the screen, causing unreasonable damage to the cute pickup truck of the 70s. I retracted my vegetarian fabric seat and then retracted again

The taillights flashed inexplicably. That has won a visit from two of my neighbors.

Please turn off the light. If I know what to do. I feel very internal about the destruction

for them.

At least I am not alone in disturbing the peace. Throughout the night, there were many headlights sweeping and the beeps of the remote control key. General Manager Paul Hengehold thinks this is a problem. He has been in Roaddium for five years and has been in express and exchange conferences for nearly 50 years. "I just received an email from someone who has a new electric car, and that person cannot turn off the lights." Hungerhold said. "He said,'It's not all your fault, but I had a terrible life. I want to get the money back.' I was thinking, "Isn't it all my fault? "My fault is less than 1%. Anyway, I said he can enter for free

Later this month. In these newer cars, you can't just click the button on the left and keep the radio on. We have begun to reserve radios to lend to people. "

The first autonomous driving theater is believed to be the work of Richard Hollingshead, who set up a screen in a parking lot in Camden, New Jersey in 1933. This idea is said to have been inspired by his mother, the big woman didn't like (or put it in) a movie theater seat. Driving around provides a more casual way to watch movies without makeup or booing. The ideas behind the other introduced and later introduced businesses are the same. simple. fast. A lot of personal space casually. It is being released when people put on stockings and hats to go to the store. Feel the space age of the 50s and 60s, surrounded by chrome and afterburning lights. The future of the car will be rotatable seats and folding cocktail tables. We never want to leave.

By the 1970s, Americans were no longer so satisfied with the use of cars. They regarded them as hungry, fatal cannibals and lead, because they were small slender boxes with uncomfortable back seats and worn shoulder straps. The through train did not bring any convenience, but it felt more like the past.

In 1973, box office revenue reached 115 million U.S. dollars, because he wrapped himself in the car culture of the early 1960s. Fast food chains suddenly appeared in every corner. Eventually, the screen moves within the minivan and SUV. Eating and watching movies in the car becomes your apology, just to quiet down the children until you can reach your actual destination, and finally leave the car.

Then it happened in 2020. Suddenly, some public activities were carried out six feet away from others, and it became necessary to still wear sweatpants, and the shameful degree was greatly reduced. Companies began to promote roadside pickup. The church held a pick-up service. Medical professionals even

-The reason for all these-through drive test. The inside of the car looked safe, which allowed us to finally leave the house.

But there is more

Know better than Syd Mead how to hide the virus in the filtered air of the Toyota Prius. Is it possible to regain any of the original charm of driving through in a day? Or is this just nostalgia caused by the pandemic? For kickball, we got the most modern car we could find, the Polestar 2 electric car, and mapped the journey through Greater Los Angeles, looking for adventures that keep us running with the engine (eg, the whistling of the engine) .

There are many coffee shops with service windows, but we started the morning with a special day. La Puente, California, is located about 20 miles east of downtown Los Angeles and includes about three square miles of a ranch and fast food restaurant. Also within its boundaries

. You can't miss it. Two huge glass fiber donuts blocked a tunnel through the fried temple. It has been there since 1968, and driving into its dark center is as exhilarating in Polestar as in Ford Country Squire, and with much less smoky flavor.

Like all the best companies, the "doughnut hole" is just cash. The cashier is a patient woman, apparently used to cashless tourists looking for doughnuts, waving us past and pointing to a bank around the corner. She said, "They drove by." When we entered Yeast's abdomen for the second time, I made a smooth turn and a donut, coated with sky blue icing and a rainbow of straw. It tastes so cute, so I just let it slip around in the small plastic box on the passenger side floor.

Through train options are everywhere. The most obvious ones are food-related, but once you start looking for them, you will be surprised at what you will do when you fasten your seat belt. No need, Giffy Luber; not in this car. Maybe later, Snap-E Tacos. We are not in danger of missing a special birthday, but driving parties are very popular. If we have more time and scope, we can even go safari. in

, You can pet the camel from the car window. If you ever wanted to get in touch with one or two grizzly bears, then

In Idaho. El Monte's no bears

, But a pigeon leaned on the rainbow-painted Googie Arch, gazing at the donuts through the glass roof of Polestar. Are you interested in something other than milk? California recently amended its alcohol laws to allow driving through cocktails, but I kept driving.

If we did not find the classic hamburger, it would be a bad report. The original In-N-Out site in Baldwin Park was commemorated as a copy of the cross-over building, but it was not provided. The oldest remaining McDonald's (McDonald's) opened in Downey (Downey) in 1953, but to our surprise, it has always been a walking stall, never a through train. Frisco's Carhop is under construction, and more hops may be added, so our vision of a server with a paper cap on a roller skate with a tray hung on the door of Polestar was shattered. In the end, we met Bob's Big Boy, a small restaurant with a franchise with a history of Los Angeles and franchise services around the world. Although we did not roller skating, we gave it a look. The panicked child and a bag of burgers. "What car is this?" he asked. This is not a good person to eat hamburgers, at least if you want those highlighter yellow seat belts to keep clean, it is not a good choice.

It was full, and the French fries brought a new taste to the interior, and we headed to the last stop of the night: the movie. Tell someone you are going for a drive and they will say, "Do they still have those?" They are! By the 1950s, more than 4,000 outdoor theaters across the United States were far away, but there were still 300 regular performances in the United States. With the massive closure of traditional movie theaters, pop-up displays on temporary screens have increased the options for outdoor viewing. You might think that with its 11.2-inch infotainment screen running Android Automotive, Polestar can play movies for me, but it can’t play movies for security reasons, so we ended up in a specific place and accidentally flashed The lights have spoiled the movie experience of others.

"In the end, we hit Bob's Big Boy, a restaurant with Los Angeles history and a global franchise, providing pick-up service-although not skating, it made us a child who looked flustered. , Brought a bag of burgers."

"To be honest, this is a big deal."

April White. "Last fall, I was driving outside in Buffalo, New York, and the shopkeeper said that he must have five to six people every night to help people turn off the lights. Today's cars are a factor in driving," . When a drive-in car was first built, the car was very big. They have benches. It's really easy to really enjoy a comfortable time. "But then bucket seats appeared, blocking the view of the rear passengers. The SUV made the situation worse, no one could see. Wright said, but at least "people can take the whole family away." "They turned the SUV back and opened the hatch. Everyone looked like that. But the automatic lighting system is troublesome. "

All kinds of vehicles are leaning on the asphalt: large SUVs are driving towards the hatch side of the screen, the recliner on the pickup truck is lying on the bed, the sharp C4 Corvette looks like an arrow in the apple, Next to all the bubbling family cars. In terms of style, the winner of the night was the man who took the vintage Volkswagen van and the couple to the cherry-red 50s Chevrolet, but from a comfort point of view, the one who landed with the roof tent was the sweetest arrangement.

"That was a failure," Hungerhold said when I told him which movie night I was in. "Maybe there are 200 cars? Now

, That's a home run.

? Grand slam. We have

This Friday; has been sold out for two and a half weeks.

? Sold out in mid-July. Bring it back and it was sold out two nights last weekend. We have

Next month; 280 cars have been sold. Why do you pay me $25 when you watch TV at home? People just want to leave. The family needs to go out. Unfortunately, what happened, but, indeed, it did help the car rental business. "

Few new movies are released, and classic movies occupy the top spot. A weekend in July,

It has been staged many times during the 40th anniversary, and it is the highest grossing movie in the United States, but even if we return to normal, the stage can provide some convenience for you to watch TV on the sofa. It's best to sit semi-privately, chew popcorn loudly, talk when you like it, but still absorb the energy from the crowd-it doesn't matter if the truck explodes panting and the dog will cheer. We are social animals. It's nice to meet other people, even if it is outside the car window. Maybe just learn how to turn off the lights.