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The Drive In Theater Experience

When my uncle was running a Drive-In, he sold "Pic Mosquito Coils" at the concession stand. This was a hard, flat waxy thing that looked like a Calrod stove burner. It cost fifty cents, came in a foil wrapper that you unwrapped, set on the dashboard on a little wire stand that came in the packet with the coil, and lit. As it burned it dispersed a cloud of citronella-smelling smoke that wafted up and over your car, and theoretically kept the mosquitoes at bay. Fifty or a hundred of these things burning on a humid summer night overwhelmed the odor of any tobacco that might also have been burning.

I still go through probably 100 of these every summer. After a while, you don't even notice them.
 

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