** The Drive-In by Joe R. Lansdale

** Joe Bob Goes To the Drive-In by Joe Bob Briggs

** Joe Bob Goes Back To The Drive-In by Joe Bob Briggs

* Joe Bob's Drive-In Theater: Airing on Saturday nights from 1986 to 1997, this feature was hosted by Joe Bob Briggs ( played by actor and film critic John Irving Bloom ).

In addition to Joe Bob's Drive-In Theater, Bloom also portrayed his Joe Bob character during the 1980s as host of the Moonlight Madness features on the channel.

In 1997, following a major rebrand of The Movie Channel, the channel removed all remaining hosted features, including Joe Bob's Drive-In Theater ; at that time, premium channels began to stray from featuring hosts for its film presentations.

After The Movie Channel dropped Joe Bob's Drive-In Theater, Bloom took the Joe Bob Briggs character with him, becoming the host of MonsterVision, a weekly horror film presentation airing on TNT until 2000.

Joe Bob Briggs, The Drive-In Movie Critic, described Wishman as, " The greatest female exploitation film director in history.

* 1922 – Troy Smith, American businessman, founded Sonic Drive-In ( d. 2009 )

Taco Bell was founded by Glen Bell who first opened a hot dog stand called Bell ’ s Drive-In in San Bernardino, California in 1946 when he was 23 years old.

During the 1970s and early 1980s until its resurrection, the term was not in vogue, one notable exception being in the lyrics of the song " Drive-In Saturday " by David Bowie ( from his 1973 album Aladdin Sane ) which includes the line " It's a crash course for the ravers.

* " Drive-In Saturday " ( 1973 ) by David Bowie, depicting a world placed in 2033 in which its inhabitants have forgotten how to reproduce and need to watch old porn films to remember how it's done.

Many fast food operations have more local and regional roots, such as White Castle in the Midwest United States, along with Hardee's ( owned by CKE Restaurants, which also owns Carl's Jr., whose locations are primarily on the United States West Coast ); Krystal, Bojangles ' Famous Chicken ' n Biscuits, Cook Out, and Zaxby's restaurants in the American Southeast ; Raising Cane's in Louisiana ; Hot ' n Now in Michigan and Wisconsin ; In-N-Out Burger ( in California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and Texas ) and Original Tommy's chains in Southern California ; Dick's Drive-In in Seattle, Washington and Arctic Circle in Utah and other western states ; Halo Burger around Flint, Michigan and Burgerville in the Portland, Oregon area.

* Charcoal Corral-Twin Drive-In with pizza, ice cream, golf, concerts, arcade, cruise night, and restaurant.

Wayne County is also home of one of the United States few still operational Drive-In Movie Theaters, The Jesup Drive In, located on U. S. Highway 301 North in Wayne County.

In terms of fast food, Kayenta has a Burger King, Sonic Drive-In, Subway restaurant, and McDonald's.

Delgadillo's brother Juan opened Delgadillo's Snow Cap Drive-In in 1953 ; the eatery has since become a famous roadside attraction.

In the first season of the reality TV series The Simple Life, Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie worked at the Sonic Drive-In located in Ozark.

Shopping center-A shopping complex built around a Target and a Walmart Supercenter ; includes: Sonic Drive-In, El Pollo Loco, Farmer Boy Hamburgers, Cold Stone Creamery, Michaels, Old Navy, Marshalls, Fashion Bug, Hallmark, Petsmart, Home Depot, Lowe's, and other retail outlets.

As of January 2010, a Sonic Drive-In opened in the Target Shopping Center.

* Five unique restaurants well known in the surrounding area draw a large number of diners: Arnold's Drive-In, Back 40 Junction, The Galley, Two Brothers Bar and Restaurant, and the West End Restaurant.

It is called Lake Shore Drive-In and has two movie screens playing ( in total ) 4 movies a night during the spring and summer months in Monticello.

Philly's, on U. S. Route 36 at the former location of the Drive-In, serves lunch several days a week and dinner several evenings a week.

The Twin Drive-In, one of only three drive-in theaters in Massachusetts, is located in Mendon.

Dowagiac is home to one of the few remaining drive-in theaters in the area, 5-Mile Drive-In Theater, located at the intersection of M-51 and M-152.

Lutz's Drive-In Restaurant is located next to the theater, and is quite popular in the summer months.

The city of Southgate features the Splash Park / Downriver YMCA ( also called Southgate Fun & Fitness Centre ), as well as the Michigan headquarters for the Sonic Drive-In fast food restaurant chain.

Southgate was the first city in Michigan to have a Sonic Drive-In chain.

local variations of franchises including, KFC, Wendy's, Sonic Drive-In, Pizza Hut, Bumpers Drive-In.

According to Joe R. Reeder, Under Secretary of the Army from 1993 to 1997, Fidel Castro has used body doubles.

* Robert M. Timm, Hopland Research & Extension Center, University of California, Hopland, California ; Rex O. Baker, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona ( retired ), Corona, California ; Joe R. Bennett, USDA APHIS Wildlife Services, Taft, California ; and Craig C. Coolahan, USDA APHIS Wildlife Services, Sacramento, California, " Coyote Attacks: An Increasing Suburban Problem " ( March 3, 2004 ).

A number of notable politicians have graduated from Dalhousie including two Prime Ministers of Canada, R. B. Bennett and Joe Clark.

Many modern horror and fantasy writers, including Stephen King, Bentley Little, Joe R. Lansdale, Alan Moore, Junji Ito, F. Paul Wilson, Brian Lumley, Caitlín R. Kiernan, and Neil Gaiman, have cited Lovecraft as one of their primary influences.

1980 saw one of the best pitching lineups the Astros ever had, with the fastball of Ryan, the knuckleball of Joe Niekro and the terrifying 6 ft 8 in frame of J. R. Richard.

The ballad, " Lost Someone ", credited with the Famous Flames, became, along with " Please, Please, Please ", an early show-stopper to Brown's shows, while the recording of the Joe Tex composition, " Baby You're Right " ( to which Brown altered completely from the original ), increased his reputation with R & B audiences.

Joe Lubin, Vice President and Head of A & R of Doris Day and Martin Melcher's Arwin Records, was impressed and offered to add instruments and to release it through Arwin.

* 1974 – Ivory Joe Hunter, American R & B singer, pianist and songwriter ( b. 1914 )

* 1914 – Ivory Joe Hunter, American R & B singer ( d. 1974 )

Joe R. Lansdale, who grew up in East Texas, often features the river in his work.

Senator Joe McCarthy accused Edward R. Murrow of having been an IWW member.

In Joe R. Lansdale's short story The Big Blow, Johnson is featured fighting a white boxer brought in by Galveston, Texas's boxing fans to defeat the African American fighter during the 1900 Galveston Hurricane.

Members include Joe Lacob, Peter Guber, Vivek Ranadive, Erika Glazer, Fred Harman, Bob Piccinini, Larry Bowman, Danny German, Marty Glick, Chad Hurley, Craig R. Johnson, Bruce Karsh, Jeffrey A. Miller, Paul Schaeffer, David Scially, Nick Swinmurn, Harry Tsao, John Walecka, and Dennis Wong.

Lancaster County is represented nationally by U. S. Senators Pat Toomey ( R ) and Bob Casey, Jr. ( D ), and by U. S. Congressman Joe Pitts ( R ) of Pennsylvania's 16th congressional district.

* Freeholder Deputy Director Joe Donnelly ( R ) – Director of Public Works & Veteran Services ( Cinnaminson Township, 2013 )

* Freeholder Joe Howarth ( R ) – Director of Hospital and Medical Services & Elections ( Evesham Township, 2014 )

State Senator 22nd District: Joe Hune ( R )

1 Joe Leavell ( R )

* Joe Thomas – Platinum R & B Recording Artist

Federally, Colton is located in California ’ s 41st and 43rd congressional districts, which have Cook PVIs of R + 9 and D + 10 respectively and is represented by Republican Jerry Lewis and Democrat Joe Baca.

In the Minnesota State Congress Albany is represented by Representative ( R ) Paul Anderson of district 13A and Senator and assistant minority leader ( R ) Joe Gimse of district 13.

, Township Committee members are Mayor Joe Lachawiec ( R, term ends December 31, 2012 ), Deputy Mayor Dennis Tredy ( R, 2013 ) and Tina Wetter ( R, 2011 ).