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INTERESTS: Running, golf, skiing  JENNIE (BOWEN) STEED: Marketing Brand Manager – International Coffee Corporation EDUC: BA, University of MA, Amherst INTERESTS: Yoga, Theatre and Hiking

It’s rare to hear about a love story that starts on an airplane. When single, we all secretly wish that the romance of meeting someone while traveling just might happen to us.

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Favorite first date memories?

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When Greg and I started talking, I discovered we had similar careers. I remember the conversation was so easy and comfortable. When I shared my date feedback with my IJL matchmaker, I let her know that Greg and I had made arrangements to attend a big award dinner at his country club.

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GREG: Online dating isn’t easy, it’s work. I’ve got a full-time career; I didn’t need another job. With IJL they did everything for me. You’re busy with your career and everything else going on – IJL was just easier.

The caliber of matches was much higher.

JENNIE: I saw an ad for IJL on a flight and was contemplating whether I was interested when someone close to me mentioned it as an option. I thought

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What sort of activities did you enjoy while you were dating?

JENNIE: We love to be outside. I also love going to places I’ve never been before. He loves to drive and take me places – whether that’s going to the beach or going to the mountains or some random lake that’s hidden away.

How has your life changed since you met?

GREG: It is totally different than it was.

I would say that there was a point in time when I felt a little bit lost.

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44 In Every Issue Gary’s Greeting Saludos de Gary You Made Our Day Our Star Rapid Rewards Freedom Story 26 From the Editor 28 Feedback 32 Contributors

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Play 104 Agenda 111 Fun! 120 Products and Services 122 Spotlight 123 Flight Service 124 Community Outreach 125 International Travel 125 Beverages 126 Inflight Entertainment 130 Rapid Rewards 132 Terminal Maps 134 Route Map 136 One Question BC Digital Extras

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Work 41 Solution 42 Takeaway 44 Startup

OUR COVER Stars & Stripes Drive-In, in New Braunfels, Texas.

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Features 48 America’s 10 Greatest Movie Venues 60 The Death and Life of the Great American Drive-In 73 Your Adventure In San Jose 85 Promotional Series: Destination Northwest Florida Beaches 97 Promotional Series: Focus on Real Estate

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GARY’S GREETING

I’m a sports enthusiast. I enjoyed playing several sports in my younger days and still play golf when I can find the time. I have a passion for watching teams (especially my beloved University of Texas Longhorns!) compete at a high level, and I’m a true believer that competition also makes us better in business and life. That’s certainly true when it comes to working in the airline industry, the ultimate team sport.

I’ve been in the industry for three decades, and its current state is the strongest and healthiest I’ve seen it.

At Southwest Airlines, we embrace

competition, but you, the traveling public, are the real winner.

As a low-fare airline, Southwest revolutionized the industry in 1971.

Back then, flying was for the rich and elite. Today, more than 85 percent of Americans have flown commercially.

We have never lost our laser-like focus on offering low fares; it’s our Brand, our niche, and our commitment to our Customers.

All airlines compete on fares, which is why you’ll often see other carriers matching ours. What you don’t always see coming are hidden fees for things

like checking your bag, changing your reservation, and so on. Our Customers have often complained to me that the nickel-and-diming approach of the “other guys” is downright offensive.

On Southwest, however, what you see is what you get. In the same way that low fares set us apart in 1971, today we are the only domestic airline that can truthfully claim that these fees don’t fly with us. We believe it’s the right thing to do for our Customers, and it’s true to our low-fare philosophy.

For us, low fares are important, but they are not the only competitive factor. We compete with our schedule, our products, and our reliability. In fact, we compete in every aspect of the Customer Experience—from booking a reservation to delivering you safely, ontime, with your luggage, and with a smile. We continue to invest in new technology, modernize our fleet, and introduce new products and services—like music, free live TV, and other onboard entertainment options.

One thing that no other airline can match is the sincerity, warmth, and dedication of our People—their hearts for serving others and Fun-LUVing Attitudes. They have been our single greatest competitive advantage from day one, and today their passion for taking care of our Customers is stronger than ever. On behalf of the 47,000 People of Southwest, thank you for allowing us to serve you!

Gary Kelly Chairman, President, and CEO Southwest Airlines

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Una ventaja competitiva Como aerolínea de tarifas bajas, Southwest revolucionó la industria en 1971. En ese entonces, volar era un lujo de los ricos y de un sector muy selecto. Hoy en día, más del 85 por ciento de los estadounidenses ha viajado en vuelos comerciales. Nunca nos hemos desviado de nuestro objetivo de ofrecer tarifas bajas: es nuestra Marca, nuestro nicho y nuestro compromiso con nuestros Clientes.

Todas las aerolíneas compiten en las tarifas. Por eso, a menudo verás que otras compañías aéreas ofrecen las mismas que nosotros. Pero lo que no siempre ves son los cargos ocultos por cosas como documentar el equipaje o cambiar la reservación, entre muchos otros. Nuestros Clientes a

menudo se quejan de que ese enfoque puramente comercial de “los otros” es rotundamente ofensivo. Sin embargo, en Southwest siempre sabes qué recibirás. Así como las tarifas bajas nos distinguieron en 1971, hoy somos la única aerolínea nacional que realmente puede decir que no aplica esos cargos. Creemos que es lo correcto para nuestros Clientes, y se ajusta a nuestra filosofía de tarifas bajas.

Para nosotros, las tarifas bajas son importantes, pero no son el único factor competitivo. Competimos con nuestros itinerarios, nuestros productos y nuestra confiabilidad. De hecho, competimos en todos los aspectos que conforman la Experiencia del Cliente: desde la reservación hasta la llegada a tu destino, a salvo y a tiempo, con tu equipaje completo y con una sonrisa. Seguimos invirtiendo en nueva tecnología, modernizando nuestra flota y presentando nuevos productos y servicios, como música, TV en vivo gratis y otras opciones de entretenimiento a bordo.

Una cosa que ninguna otra aerolínea puede igualar es la sinceridad, la calidez y la dedicación de nuestros Empleados: su amor por servir a los demás y su actitud amable y divertida.

Nuestra Gente ha sido nuestra mayor ventaja competitiva desde el primer día, y hoy su pasión por atender a nuestros Clientes es más intensa que nunca. De parte de los 47,000 Empleados de Southwest, ¡gracias por permitirnos servirte!

Gary Kelly Presidente de la Junta Directiva, Director Ejecutivo y Presidente Southwest Airlines

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Soy amante de los deportes. En mi juventud, disfrutaba de practicar varios y aún juego golf cuando tengo tiempo. Me apasiona ver jugar a los equipos en competencias de alto nivel (¡sobre todo a los Longhorns de mi querida Universidad de Texas!), y creo fervientemente que la competencia nos hace mejores, tanto en los negocios como en la vida. Esto, sin duda, aplica también a las aerolíneas, que son el mejor ejemplo del deporte en equipo.

Hace tres décadas que formo parte de la industria, y en este momento la veo más sólida y mejor que nunca.

En Southwest Airlines aceptamos la competencia, pero el verdadero ganador eres tú, el viajero.

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Flight attendant Lisa Castignetti totally made my day! When she came around for the drink order, I told her that I liked her panda-shaped earrings. I love pandas. She said that she likes the animals too. Before we landed, she came over with a cup and handed it to me. I thought it was water, but inside were the earrings. I was totally shocked and so excited for this thoughtful, over-the-moon-nice gift. I’ve ridden Southwest many times with mostly good experiences, but Lisa really made my day. —Samantha Scholtz FEAR CONQUEROR

My wife and I traveled with our two sons, Luke and Jack. Although Jack, our 9-year-old, had flown before, he was very nervous. Capt. Tom Dollahite came out to the waiting area between flights and stopped to say hello to our sons. When I explained to Tom that Jack has been afraid to fly, he asked if he could take Jack on board to show him the cockpit. Of course we were 18 SOUTHWEST AUGUST 2015

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Jack returned after a few minutes with a huge smile. I asked him if he was still afraid to fly, and he said, “No, now I’m excited.” Once we were seated on the plane, Tom called for my son on the intercom: “Capt. Jack to the cockpit.”

Tom introduced him to the passengers and let him do the announcements.

Right before we pushed back, the captain came back and asked Jack how he was doing—another great moment.

Once we landed and were deboarding the captain asked Jack how his flight had been. His response was “Great!”

From the bottom of my heart I thank our captain for doing that for our son.

We have never been treated with such kindness on any other airline.

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was going on, Southwest was in touch with my wife, Cheryl, who was able to catch an early morning flight and was at my bedside the next day. I received most of the information regarding this episode from other people; Jonathan was my main source. After I was discharged, I called him and his wife, Kristy. Last October, I celebrated six months of being back among the living by inviting them to spend a weekend with Cheryl and me. Next time you visit Baltimore on Southwest, ask for Jonathan Richards. If you have the chance to meet him, it’s OK to give him a handshake or a hug. —Garry Buzil BACK ON TR ACK

I wanted to let you know that Elmo Wedderburn, one of your employees at San Francisco International Airport, made quite a positive impact on me.

Long story short, I recently left active duty with the military, and I’ve been on the job hunt for a while now. I had an interview in San Francisco and another in Dallas the next day. It’s expensive and exhausting looking for a job, especially this long into the search. My San Francisco interview ran long, and I was in a huge rush to make it to the airport.

When I arrived, I realized I was supposed to fly from Oakland! Elmo, a customer service agent, stepped up in a big way. He found a flight that connected to my original itinerary in Los Angeles and stayed calm through the whole ordeal. I can’t believe what he was able to do and how much time, money, and stress he saved me. Please pass along my sincere gratitude and let Elmo know that he’s made at least one person’s life better. —Pete Shearer NO LONGER AT A LOSS

My husband and I were leaving Oklahoma City after visiting our daughter and her family for a grandchild’s fourth birthday. We’d gone through security and were waiting for our flight to Chicago and on to Indiana and home.

My husband received a call from a pharmacist in Indiana. Someone had found the small bag that he keeps his medication in. We were unaware that the bag was missing. A Southwest flight

attendant had found the bag. It had fallen out of my husband’s suitcase onto the pavement outside Will Rogers World Airport. In that bag was a newly filled 3-month supply of blood pressure medicine. Lois Jockers, the Dallas-based flight attendant who found the bag, was wonderful. She not only went the extra mile to return the bag but also included a very nice note saying she hoped to see us in the air on a future flight. I’m a hospital-based RN, and I recognize when someone goes above and beyond to help others. My husband had been travelling extensively for our family business, and our short trip to OKC was his only time off in weeks.

Not having to worry about the hassle of trying to replace lost medication helped during this busy time for us.

Please thank Lois for her professionalism and for being the kind of person we all should be. —Kathy Liss GOLDEN RETRIEVER

May Lin Tan Barnett is awesome! I left my one-of-a-kind feather headband on the plane and was sick about it. I went to the baggage claim area, and she volunteered to go all the way back up to the plane and get my fascinator.

Thank you, May Lin! —Jenny Calleri GREAT EXPECTATIONS

I would like to inform Southwest that a member of their staff, Michael Kean, has ruined all future air travel for my family and me. Until yesterday, we were accustomed to curt, rude, and largely disinterested staff when interacting with personnel from the airline industry. That was until Michael, a customer service agent, ruined everything. He seemed sincerely interested in our travel and how our vacation was. He then took the time to interact with my children, making them laugh and reducing the stress for the whole family.

He did not stop there, giving us stepby-step directions on how to locate our gate. Although Michael should be ashamed for raising my expectations, Southwest should recognize him and consider him an example of great customer service. He is an asset to your airline. —Dan O’Brien

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Gail Smith IT’S A SNAP

Gail takes photos both on and off the clock.

If you see Gail Smith at the Oakland International Airport, she’ll undoubtedly greet you with a cheerful smile and helpful attitude. Gail has been a Customer Service Agent at Southwest Airlines for eight years. Even though her interactions with Customers at the ticket counter, baggage desk, and gate podium last only a few minutes, it’s her goal to make each encounter a positive one.

“I love to engage with my Customers while I complete my tasks,” Gail says. “I want to find out where they are going and the reason they are going there. Then I try to find a way to enhance it.” For example, if Customers tell Gail they’re on vacation, she’ll offer to take their picture. “I’ll use their phone to take a photo—this is what I’m known for! Then they can send the photo to those who are waiting for them to arrive or keep it as a souvenir of their trip.”

Gail likes taking photos outside of work too, and in her free time she learns new techniques and grows her collection of equipment. Her vacations are usually “photography safaris,” tours where photographers travel together to exciting destinations, receiving instruction along the way.

A few of her favorite international destinations for such trips are Samoa, Fiji, and Italy.

Gail was born in Detroit but moved to Riverside, California, with her family when she was 13. After graduating college, she started working for AT&T in the Bay Area, which has been her home ever since. Gail retired from her career in telecommunications before coming to Southwest Airlines.

She’s a loving, devoted mother and grandmother.

Today, Gail couldn’t be happier with her job.

“We work hard—very hard—but our rewards are plentiful,” she says. “I just love meeting people each day and hearing tidbits about their lives.”

Thank you for being one of the brightest stars at Southwest, Gail. Your enthusiasm for Customer Service inspires us all! —Katie Ellwood To thank Gail for her work and dedication, Jersey Boys is proud to give her two tickets to see the show in Las Vegas.

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Liz Rose

Hearing your favorite song come on the radio is a surefire way to start a great day—especially if it’s one you wrote. For Grammy Award–winning songwriter Liz Rose, this phenomenon happens nearly every day.

As a cowriter on country hits such as “Girl Crush” by Little Big Town, “Crazy Girl” by the Eli Young Band, and “White Horse” by Taylor Swift, Liz has a number of chart-topping tunes under her belt. In addition to songwriting, Liz owns a lifestyle and home decor store named Castilleja, located in Nashville. She splits her time between there and Dallas. “I fly about once every two weeks, and I always make sure it’s on Southwest Airlines,” she says. “Everyone is so friendly.”

Liz depends on the flexibility Southwest provides, which allows her to switch up her plans without additional fees. “I love the fact that I can change my plans on the day of my trip and still keep my travel funds for the future,” she says.

Even in the trickiest of situations, Liz knows Southwest has her back with top-notch Customer Service. Five years ago, while on her way to Las Vegas for the American Country Music Awards and her own wedding, Liz ran into a bit of a snag: “Our flight was delayed due to weather, and we weren’t sure if we were going to make it on time.”

Once the flight took off, the Crew’s Fun-LUVing Attitude was a welcome relief: “Everyone was so accommodating! The Flight Attendants even gave us Champagne to celebrate.”

Thank you for your loyalty and for sharing your talent with the world, Liz. We are big fans of your music and even bigger fans of you!

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from the editor

Dear Reader,

One of the dumbest things a parent can say is “Kids, you’re in for a real treat!” This is grown-up speak for “I’m forcing you to experience some lame thing from the dawn of time.” Every now and then, though, we can reenact a piece of our youth, such as a drive-in movie, that isn’t so lame after all. Still, we should avoid foisting our happy days on our loved ones as accurate memories.

They almost never are.

While we were preparing this issue’s cover story, I thought about my own good old days in suburban Philadelphia—particularly one memorable night when I took a pretty blond girl named Beth on a first date. She was wearing Love’s Fresh Lemon perfume, and the sweet scent filled my mom’s Plymouth Valiant like … well, like love.

But just as I was pining for my long-lost youth, details of the evening began creeping back. Beth’s deeply conservative parents practically frisked me when I showed up; they weren’t keen on the whole drive-in idea. It was a cold evening, I didn’t know enough to park at a heated speaker, and we both shivered throughout the movie (which, for reasons I can’t fathom, was Ryan’s Daughter Daughter, a terrible first-date flick). The car broke down on the way back. My dad had to come pick us up, and Beth got home scandalously late. Her parents forbade more dates. Gradually, the smell of Love’s Fresh Lemon faded from the Valiant’s interior; Mom said the odor was sickening.

Which explains why nostalgic events tend to disappoint the second time around: They weren’t entirely perfect the first time.

And so, when you bring your family to one of the drive-ins making a revival around the country, treat it as an awesome, new experience. Because that’s exactly what it is.

Jay Heinrichs

EDITORIAL DIRECTOR @JAYHEINRICHS

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SEEK FORGIVENESS Check out Megan Feldman’s book, Triumph of the Heart: Forgiveness in an Unforgiving World, out this month. It originated as our November 2012 cover story, and it’s creating quite a buzz.

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Talk to Us Send your letters to 2811 McKinney Ave., Suite 360, Dallas, TX 75204. For comments or questions directed at Southwest Airlines that don’t pertain to the magazine, please visit the “Contact Us” page at Southwest.com.

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SOCIAL MEDIA SHOUT-OUTS

Our Tigger! He is moody this morning!

Lol! #Cats #lovecats #southwestmag @CSRLAMOM

I enjoyed the article “Dogs v. Cats” [June 2015]. I am voting cat! I have always enjoyed both animals. However, dogs basically love everyone, whereas cats choose whom they love. For me, that is true loyalty. If you are one of the lucky ones to be picked by a cat, count yourself blessed.

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I grew up with cats and have always loved them! They are quiet, get rid of vermin, and help keep you warm at night.

But they are also aloof. (My mom has a notepad in her home with a quote on top: “Dogs have owners, Cats have staff.” It is so true.) About six years ago I brought home a standard poodle puppy. She was playful, liked long walks, and was very intelligent. She knew my moods, and if one of the cats was pestering me when I was busy or annoyed, she would

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“Dance.” During those 26 miles, the mantras helped. This article was part of the catalyst that changed my attitude about race day to focus on the fun and my successful training rather than the pain. I took the magazine on the way back to BWI so I could keep it for next race day.

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RUNNER’S WORLD

I flew from Baltimore to Boston on Southwest, preparing myself to drive to Burlington, Vermont, for my first marathon. Nervous and anxious, I opened the magazine and read “The Mountain of Youth” [May 2015]. It couldn’t have been more perfect for that moment. I nudged my boyfriend, smiling ear to ear, and told him to read the article.

He was running his first marathon as well. The rest of the weekend, we would look at each other and say, “Relax,” “Focus,” “Smile,” and

GAINING MOMENTUM

“The Mountain of Youth” profoundly inspired me. Last year I worked on a formidable challenge, which became a triumph greater than I could have imagined. I was, like Jay, filled with joy and love. It made me realize that I can achieve some equally formidable goals that I’ve been stuck-in-the-mud about for years. I’ve chosen one and am using Jay’s model to create sparkling declarations and breathe new confidence and determination into my

path up my mountain. I will let you know how it goes!

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We had taken several tours of Boston but did not feel we had seen the more interesting parts of the city.

On a trip to Texas for a wedding, we flew Southwest. Your magazine contained a write-up on Boston [“Your Adventure In Boston,” March 2015].

Using your suggestions, we took a tour of the Boston MFA, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Mary Baker Eddy Library’s Mapparium, and the galleries on Newbury Street.

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Trevor Paulhus PHOTOGRAPHER

Cover; The Death and Life of the Great American Drive-In / p. 60 Trevor captured drive-ins in both Vermont and Texas, plus a rather unique Jaws experience (p. 48).

“I would have to say the dancing shark girls were the most memorable part. But honestly, having a chance to watch one of my alltime favorite movies again was pretty awesome.”

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Adam and Robin, who have worked with us for years, are self-described “sci-fi nerds.” “We both get into fun events at the Alamo Drafthouse,” Robin says, “like when they ran a Back to the Future marathon—we sat through all six hours of that for sure.”

Rob, who created the colorful wall-hopping illustration for “Get Over It,” is a film fanatic. “I love going to movies more than just about anything else, especially the late show at The Magnolia theater in Dallas—it’s cozy and perfect for catching the latest art-house films.”

Jim chronicled the revival of drive-in theaters across the country. He experienced his first drive-in as a kid in the 1960s. “What I remember most is how big the movies seemed on the screen and how big I felt being outside with my brothers.”

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FUNNY FIND Provine discovered that speakers are 46 percent more likely to laugh than their listeners.

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And it’s not because everyone’s a comedian. “Laughter is more about relationships than humor,” says neuroscientist Robert R. Provine, the author of Curious Behavior: Yawning, Laughing, Hiccupping, and Beyond.

Beyond “You go to a party and have a room full of laughing people, but they’re not telling jokes. What’s happening is playful interactions between individuals.” In fact, Provine’s research at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, found that everyday expressions like “I’ll see you guys later” and “It was nice meeting you too” elicited more giggles than punch lines did. In other words, laughter isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

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WORK Solution

find a way around those obstacles no matter what. The difficulty is when we tell ourselves we’re in a doing mindset and we’re not.”

What prevents us from achieving our goals?

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You have to have reasons in life to be a reasonable person, but they get in the way when you use them to let yourself off the hook. They become excuses. You end up putting boundaries around yourself and blaming everyone else for why they’re there. Achievement is about personal responsibility— being honest with yourself, identifying your intentions, and giving them the necessary attention.”

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OUTTAKES PRIORIT Y NO. 1 I’m determined to be engaged where I am, to be alive in the moment. When I’m at work I’m fully at work, and when I’m home I’m all in there.

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ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE / AUSTIN, TEXAS I’VE NEVER SEEN JAWS. Chalk it up to the ichthyophobia—the irrational fear of fish—I’ve suffered since the age of 3, when a family friend warned me about the water right before a trip to visit relatives in Indonesia. “Watch out for sharks!” he told me with a devilish grin. I took this very, very seriously. Weeks later, my grandfather hefted me onto his shoulders and, despite my wailing, waded up to his neck into the Indian Ocean. I saw no sharks that day, but I’ve been terrified of fish ever since.

Despite all that, I was intrigued when I heard about a strange aquatic-cinematic hybrid: For a few nights this summer, the Alamo Drafthouse would host a float-in screening of Jaws at the Texas Ski Ranch. The good news: The water-sports playground 40 miles south of Austin doesn’t stock any fish. (Take that, crippling ichthyophobia!) I could do this. Then I found out about the scuba divers.

“There will definitely be people being grabbed during key scenes,” Henri Mazza, Alamo Drafthouse’s VP of special events, told me over the phone.

I arrive early for the preshow beach bash, where people play lawn games while shark-costumed dancers boogie onstage to the Hawaii Five-0 theme.

I grab an inner tube and join the eager crowd of

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This is no zombie gathering. The movie series Cinespia is actually held at the hollywood forever cemetery cemetery.

Films change weekly, and once a summer they host a triple-feature slumber party for those who ain’t afraid of no ghost.

Opened in 1928, the byrd theatre in Richmond, Virginia, is a true gem, complete with marble walls and gold-leafed arches.

Before some shows, guests are treated to tunes from the Mighty Wurlitzer Organ.

(CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT) PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY OF KELLY LEE BARRETT, CHARLIE VILLYARD AND SHOOTING STAR RV RESORT

700 on the shoreline. Before taking the plunge, we watch a single fin cut through the water. This strikes me as more comical than ominous. It’s just a foam prop, I tell myself. Plus I’m 50 yards away, on dry land. But that’s about to change.

In the 1910s, a nickel was all it took to escape reality and pop into a moviehouse. Soon came the feature-length films of the 1920s and the lavish movie palaces that hosted them. To bolster their profits, theaters offered concessions, including the now ubiquitous buttered popcorn. During the First and Second World Wars, they were ad-hoc community centers, where hawkers sold liberty bonds and newsreels connected civilians to the battlefront.

In the ’50s the game changed once again, thanks to the advent of broadcast television and the urban exodus to suburbia. Mall theaters and drive-ins attempted to fill the gap, but even they soon had to contend with home entertainment: VHS, DVD, and now streaming.

With attendance continuing to plummet—2014 was the worst year for ticket sales in the U.S. and Canada since 1995—innovation is an ongoing imperative. Theaters like the Drafthouse are doing more than ever to lure audiences, like showing The Godfather: Part II on a New York City rooftop and Close Encounters of the Third Kind at Devils Tower National Monument. And screening movies in the middle of a lake.

The opening nighttime scene of Jaws takes on an eerie quality, the onscreen ocean looking like an extension of the lake. My eyes deceive me: This could all be happening 20 yards away! I glance at my husband, who towed me right up to the screen, and—wait. What is touching my leg?

Mud. We’re so close to shore I’ve hit bottom.

Eventually I quit worrying about my surroundings. That’s the hallmark of any great moviegoing experience: Concessions and comfy seats and fancy surround sound reel you in but recede into the background when the lights go down, leaving space for the story to captivate.

As the film’s triumphant heroes paddle back to Amity, cheers erupt across the sea of spectators.

We join the throng as it filters out to the parking lot, squeezing the last drops of water from our swimsuits before piling into the car and heading home, legs fully intact. —Gabbi Chee Cotherman

Dinner and a movie gets a serious upgrade at San Francisco’s renowned foreign cinema. Tuck into seabass ceviche, brined Hampshire pork chops, and grilled Monterey calamari with an industrial-chic courtyard for a backdrop.

While you dine, foreign—come on, it’s right in the name—classic, and independent features are projected high onto the exterior walls. Consider it a feast for the eyes. Recent favorites include Magnolia and The Maltese Falcon. The California-Mediterranean menu rotates daily, but films usually last for a month.

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Nestled among southern Utah’s stone gulches, canyons, waterfalls, and arches, Shooting Star RV Resort offers almost as many seating options as it does scenic vistas. Lounge in your own RV, rent an on-site Airstream trailer, or pull up a chair. Our favorite? Reserve one of the 1960s Cadillacs, with the top down.

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RED ROCKS AMPHITHEATRE / MORRISON, COLORADO

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Every Thursday night in the summer, Woodinville, Washington’s redhook brewery stages a cinematic sitin. Grab a fresh Long Hammer IPA and a spot on the lawn. The show starts at dusk.

back alley

Miami’s tiny blue starlite drive-in, tucked behind an old moviehouse, only lets in 50 cars a night. Car-side s’mores and a motto that states, “Feel Free to Make Out in Your Car,” contribute to the intimate atmosphere.

Besides lip-locks, expect classic and arthouse films.

It’s hard to beat a 300million-yearold theater.

PHOTOGRAPHY BY JASON G. BAHR/GETTY IMAGES AND COURTESY OF COLIN BISHOP (REDHOOK)

Carved into the red sandstone outside Denver, Red Rocks Amphitheatre may be the country’s most picturesque movie venue. Start the evening with a hike up to the toadstoolshaped Seat of Pluto outcrop, and then settle in for the show. Cool bonus: Every screening is preceded by a comedian and a Colorado musical act.

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Top Gun seems like an appropriate choice, no?

From 1943 to 1974, the uss intrepid patrolled sea to shining sea for the U.S. Navy, serving in World War II and Vietnam and as the recovery ship for Gemini and Mercury space missions. It’s now a hulking steel theater (and museum) docked in the Hudson River, just off Midtown Manhattan.

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the future is here At Secret Cinema, fan interaction is encouraged— nay, required.

THE CAMERA PANS UP, and there’s Marty McFly, 5 feet, 4 inches of feathery hair and puffy down vest. He wanders the town square of Hill Valley, bewildered by the poodle skirts, letter jackets, and slicked-back hair.

A Cadillac convertible cruises by, the driver nodding in silent acknowledgement: “Yes, Marty, this is real.”

But then Marty spies the London skyline drawing before him in the distance, and a kid with an iPhone appears. This is Back to the Future, yes, but it’s so much more.

Launched in London in 2007, Secret Cinema is the brainchild of Fabien Riggall, who sought to bring back the magic of the movies. Gigantic sets, wide-open urban locales, and actors hired to recreate famous scenes are hallmarks of each event.

Guests are instructed to dress in movie-specific attire, quite the spectacle when the film is, say, this summer’s Empire Strikes Back. Think stormtroopers firing off E-11 blaster rifles with reckless abandon. (This iteration was so popular that it pushed the film back into the United Kingdom box office’s top 10—35 years after its release.)

At 2014’s Back to the Future production, Doc Brown demonstrated the power of his flux capacitor, and Marty hitched his skateboard to the back of a truck before meeting his dad, George, for the first time. After such re-creations wrap, guests— nearly 80,000 attended last year—settle in for the feature presentation.

This fall, for the first time, Riggall will bring Secret Cinema stateside. A U.S. run of his Back to the Future project will play for roughly a month in Los Angeles. The location and exact dates are, of course, still a secret. Keep a close eye on secretcinema.org for clues. —Bradford Pearson

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FOUR FANTASTIC TIPS (PLUS A FEW OTHERS)

Build Your Own Blockbuster There’s a thumb in the way, or Aunt Rose is blinking, or the little ones just...won’t...sit...still. Fantastic Four director Josh Trank steps in with expert advice on making home movies sparkle like the silver screen.

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JUST 20 YEARS AGO, home movies meant lugging around heavy camera parts, loading a tape into a camcorder, making sure that tape wasn’t already full—it was an ordeal. With the advent of smartphones, capturing memories is no longer a chore, but who says it can’t be an art form?

The first order of business for any budding videographer is pinpointing your subject. “Find what inspires you,” Trank says. And once you do, “be open-minded. Don’t be afraid of failure; try everything.”

Once you’ve determined what you’ll be filming, you can begin to focus on the how.

A few practical pointers to keep in mind: First of all, make sure

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to frame your subject properly. This can be as simple as orienting your phone horizontally, enabling you to capture the widest shot possible.

So much of filmmaking is giving the viewer enough context. Try to be conscious of what’s in the foreground and the background.

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Next, use your phone’s focus feature to make sure your subject is crisp and not blurry.

Balancing shadows and light is a skill that will come more easily with practice. The goal is to preserve detail without washing out the image.

Show if you can.

Tell if you must. When it comes to narration, less is more. If you’re relying on it to communicate something that’s better represented visually, drop it, Trank says.

Most importantly, “put thought into your choices,” he says.

“Make sure you know why you’re showing us something the way you’re choosing to show it.” Oh, and Trank agrees, every director needs a beret.

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cinnamon popcorn ½ cup popcorn kernels, popped 3 teaspoons cinnamon 2 tablespoons superfine sugar 4 tablespoons melted butter Combine cinnamon and sugar, and sprinkle over warm popcorn.

Drizzle with butter and add salt to taste.

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½ cup popcorn kernels, popped 4 tablespoons paprika 2 tablespoons turmeric 2 teaspoons freshly cracked black pepper 1½ teaspoons dry mustard 1 teaspoon cayenne 4 tablespoons melted butter Combine dry spices and mix well. Drizzle melted butter over popcorn, and then sprinkle with spice mixture. Toss and add salt to taste.

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punch drunk love Makes 25 five-ounce servings 3 cups white rum, such as Flor de Caña 4 Year Old 1½ cups aged rum, such as El Dorado 5 Year Old 17 lemons 3 cups demerara sugar 6 cups hot sencha green tea, brewed at double-strength 1 vanilla bean 1 large ice block (or several smaller ones) A DAY IN ADVANCE Peel 12 lemons, avoiding the white pith. Set lemons aside for juicing. Slit vanilla bean lengthwise. Place vanilla bean, lemon peel, and demerara sugar in a large bowl. Lightly press sugar into peels to combine. Cover and let sit overnight.

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The Fairlee Drive-in, in Fairlee, Vermont.

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Drive-In Soaring land prices, digital projectors, and the Internet all took their swings.

But instead of going down, the drive-in is surviving—even thriving.

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ETER TRAPP CAN still picture the last time the drive-in was full. It was 2006, the blockbuster summer of Cars and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest.

They filled all 400 spaces and had to turn people away. To keep up with demand, they hired five extra employees. “Then the recession hit, or something,” he says, his voice trailing off.

Rust streaks the 90-foot-long steel movie screen at the back of the lot. Trapp ambles past rows of old iron speaker posts toward the projection booth in the middle of the field, telling stories with a toothy grin behind a gray walrus mustache.

The shed, a low-slung cinder-block bunker, hasn’t changed much since the mid-1960s, when Trapp was a teenager from New Jersey coming to summer camp in Vermont. “On Saturday nights they’d throw us in the back of the sawdust truck and drop us off in Fairlee at the drive-in,” he says. “Girls, sleeping bags, under the stars—I mean, how much closer to heaven could you get?”

Back then, the drive-in showed 35 mm movies through the theater’s original twin carbon-arc

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projectors. The projectionist had to preload the film onto two huge reels; a mechanical bell alerted him when it was time to switch from one projector to the other. Those were the same projectors in the booth nearly four decades later, in 2003, when Peter and his wife, Erika, bought the drive-in and tiny, adjacent motel.

Their three boys, Tucker, PJ, and Cooper, were young at the time. “I

make out in privacy. More than anything else, they catered to America’s love affair with the car.

There was another kind of drivein—the rural, cow-field variety— that was pastoral in nature, and the theater in Fairlee was one of those.

Author W.D. Wetherell, a regular there, once wrote that he saw in the place a living reminder “of a time when a film coming to a small New England town was a big event, the viewing of it a truly communal experience.”

But the world had changed since the 1950s.

Against a relentless tide of cultural forces, including a fatal rise in land values, driveins nearly disappeared from the American landscape. According to the United States Drive-in Theatre Owners Association, only positive projection Fairlee owner Peter Trapp took 393 remain. Summers a risk buying the drive-in in 2003, but he had high hopes. still came, of course, remembered how much fun I’d had but the coming of a film was no lonat the drive-in,” Peter says. “When I ger a big event. And so Peter Trapp read in the paper that it was for sale, struggled with a question: Was there I thought it could be something the still a place for a drive-in theater in a boys might like to be involved with 1,000-person town in Vermont? as they got older.” He managed a 300-acre ranch on the New HampMONEY PROBLEMS in the theater shire side of the Connecticut River, business aren’t unique to drive-ins. and this felt like a good fit next to Thanks in large part to the rise of the farm work. It sounded like an ultraconvenient streaming services adventure. like Netflix and Hulu, theater attenThere was a time when drive-in dance has been declining for years. movie theaters were synonymous In 2014, the number of people with summer, when the smells of going to the movies plummeted to buttered popcorn and grilled hama 20-year low. There’s increasing burgers filled the warm night air and chatter that theaters are becomthe stars on the big screen shone ing obsolete, and in turn many are brightly beneath the starlight. attempting to reinvent themselves Riding the wave of the post-war by making the movie-watching baby boom, outdoor movie screens experience more luxurious. This is flickered from Maine to Califorpartly to lure customers back, but it nia—4,063 of them by 1958—most at also provides justification for raising the edges of suburbia, near expandticket prices to compensate for lowing populations where land was er attendance. cheap. They offered convenience and Bill Dever, managing director of family value and a snack-bar menu, a USA Drive-Ins, believes this actually chance to smoke cigarettes or talk or puts drive-ins in a unique position

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to reclaim their role as important players in the business. “You have all the major chains putting in very expensive chairs and bringing in high-priced chicken fingers, but that’s precluding a large amount of families,” he says. “We think that’s wrong, because at the end of the day movies have always been a medium for the common man. And because of the price and the overhead issue, drive-ins are more accessible to more people.”

While the number of drive-ins has dwindled, there is hope—USA

micro radio transmitters, a pop-up drive-in can take over a parking area or vacant lot for an evening, and the whole setup can be packed up in minutes. They’ve appeared across the country (and in Europe), in abandoned warehouses and under highway overpasses.

Dever fell in love with the popup concept long before getting into the drive-in game. He was visiting a small Canadian town one Saturday night when the community decided to project Star Wars onto the side of a grain elevator. In the midst of a battle sequence, a train passed by and the chaotic scene was momentarily projected onto the rumbling grain cars.

“For me, that was such an ethereal experience,” Dever says. “It really heightened the idea of what moviegoing is all about.”

USA Drive-Ins is embracing the pop-up movement by partnering with outlet malls, vineyards, breweries— any mass-market operation with an accessible space—but they’re looking to go a step further. They’re currently working with communities in rural Louisiana whose economies have been decimated by big-box stores. The goal is to establish permanent moviegoing experiences that will revitalize vacant downtown spaces.

Even still, a daunting obstacle remains for any drive-in hoping to flourish in this evolving moviegoing ecosystem: the industry’s transition from film to digital.

The family talked for a long time, and PJ, Tucker, and Cooper finally decided: Let’s do whatever it takes to keep the theater open.

Drive-Ins plans to open 200 theaters within five years. “Even when obsolescence threatens an industry, some players may be able to thrive while continuing to focus on the older way of doing things,” says Phyllis Ezop, president of the business strategy consulting firm Ezop and Associates.

“The ones who continue to thrive generally have some particular strengths that other players in the industry lack.”

Accessibility is one strength, but so are flexibility and customization, says Ryan Smith, co-owner of Stars and Stripes, which now operates two drive-ins in Texas. “You can have as private of an experience as you want—sitting inside your car, either with your newborn child or with a date—or set up a tailgate by backing up your SUV to the screen and having the row that you’re on be like a block party for the evening.”

The need for flexibility has given rise to the “guerilla,” or pop-up, drive-in movement. Using inexpensive LCD projectors, along with

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ONE OF THE FIRST things the Trapps did after buying the Fairlee drive-in was upgrade the projector.

They paid $40,000 for a refurbished, 20-year-old Simplex unit with a xenon-bulb lamp house, set up a platter system to unspool and respool the 35 mm films, and shoved the old carbon-arc projectors into a corner of the booth.

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But Trapp’s booking agent in Massachusetts began warning the family that getting decent films would become harder as the industry phased out 35 mm film production. In January 2014, Paramount Pictures became the first big studio to stop distributing major movies on 35 mm. The move came sooner than industry insiders had anticipated, and it instantly accelerated the time frame for other studios to follow suit. Some columnists predicted that all distribution would become digital within a year. It was only a matter of time before movies wouldn’t be available in Fairlee at all—unless Trapp could come up with a digital projection system to the tune of more than $80,000.

“With the business over the past few years being half of what it used to be and with it being seasonal and so dependent on the weather,” Trapp says, “there’s no way we could get a bank loan for that kind of money.”

Peter, Erika, and the boys did what many farm families do when faced with a serious challenge: They gathered around the dining-room table one night and talked over their options. They started this venture because Peter had never forgotten the happy experience of coming here when he was a kid. His family had grown to love the whole experience, working alongside each other: handling tickets, parking cars, running the snack shack. Peter liked to joke that every night during the season it felt like they were on a mini vacation together. (“I say to Erika, ‘How many husbands take their wives every weekend to Vermont and go to the drive-in?’”) But he wanted his kids to make the decision. This was their future. The family talked for a long time, and PJ, Tucker, and Cooper finally decided: Let’s do whatever it takes to keep the theater open, and reach out to the community for help.

They put a request on their website. Cooper handed out flyers to the cars coming in, PJ hung posters. They set out a donation bucket at the snack shack. They held two

benefit concerts, a benefit auction, sold T-shirts. Money trickled in.

They signed up for Honda’s national “Project Drive-In” initiative and urged fans to vote for Fairlee to be one of the five theaters to which Honda would donate new digital projectors.

Of course, Fairlee was hardly alone staring at this bullet; most of the remaining U.S. drive-ins faced the same uncertain transition and the same cost. “It’s expensive, and it’s a major commitment,” says Stars and Stripes’ Smith, whose drive-in in Lubbock, Texas, was the first multiscreen to go all digital, “but it’s just what we needed to do.”

The Honda voting effort didn’t pan out, and the Trapps were $55,000 short. Knowing there would likely be a waiting list to get digital projectors installed for the 2014 summer season, Peter gambled and ordered the projector, using the money they had raised as a down payment. The family hastily put together a 30-day, Web-based effort to finance the rest through the crowdfunding site Kickstarter. The site uses an all-or-nothing model: If pledged donations didn’t reach the $55,000 goal, they would be zeroed out, and the theater would get nothing.

Through the bitterly cold month of February, the family tended to the farm and motel and anxiously watched the computer. “In retrospect,” Trapp says, “probably not the best time to ask for money—when people are thinking about their heating bills, not about going to the movies.” The campaign failed. Still, a new digital projector, with its heavy debt and promise of salvation, was on its way.

NOT EVERYONE has suffered because of the digital change. Rather than featuring new releases, popup theaters show classic and niche films for a target audience, meaning they don’t have to invest in expensive new technology. Meanwhile, USA Drive-Ins will soon launch its

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sister effort, Cinema Link, which will offer an expansive library of alternative content so that driveins can keep a greater percentage of box-office sales. (Currently, theaters pay studios the majority of their revenue for new releases.)

And while technological disruptions presented potentially catastrophic problems for the Trapps in Vermont, it also allowed them to publicize and market their theater in new ways. The family launched a second Kickstarter campaign and set a more attainable goal, close to $30,000.

Their plea went out over Twitter and Facebook. If they could raise that much, they could add it to the $22,000 down payment and close the financing gap to a manageable size. It’s a curious thing, an outdated business asking for donations to make its capital investments. Why would people donate? Why would anyone care?

The family had reason to be hopeful. Fairlee is an unusual place for a drive-in theater—Vermont has a reputation for welcoming dreamers and romantics and contrarians. Farmers are still a part of the drive-in’s clientele, but so are writers, loggers, college professors, students, truckers, vacationing families making annual visits, kids from summer camps on Lake Fairlee and Lake Morey, parents who had come here as children now with children of their own.

And there’s something harder to identify, something having to do with that sense of community W.D. Wetherell wrote about. Peter Trapp feels it every time someone thanks him at the post office or the general store; he senses it in the gratefulness he hears from moviegoers, in the stories that remind them of their history, that connect them in this place.

Thus, while drive-ins aren’t resting on nostalgia, they are tapping into something that’s increasingly elusive in a world dominated by personal devices.

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“I think that people crave collective experiences: People like being with their families, their neighbors, their town and community,” Dever says. “I

he’s a part of something larger that stretches back more than half a century, to the original owner, Reginald Drowns, who stopped traveling around Vermont with a projector and a popcorn machine to bring his road show home for good. Drowns built the Holiday Park Drive-In in 1950, and renamed it the Hi Way 5 Motel and Drive-In when he added six motel units 10 years later. It was the first of its kind in the country. Drowns had strict ideas about the business. He made sure his movies arrived by Thursday each week so he could personally preview them before showing them to the public on the weekend. He installed a button on the wall next to one of the carbon-arc projectors, which he pushed to kill the sound every time a cuss word was coming. He spliced out racy scenes. His wife, Terri, ran the motel in a similar

Peter says he doesn’t really feel like the owner of the Fairlee. “Closing this place would be like closing Mount Rushmore. It belongs to too many people.” don’t think that people really relish watching movies on a phone. They want to watch it together.”

Plus, he says, there’s a need for drive-ins to help reintroduce the country to its love affair with film.

“Movies are, for better or worse, the key export that America has given to the world.”

Trapp has been running the theater for barely 10 years, but he feels

vein. She wouldn’t rent rooms to couples who didn’t look married, or to people who drank beer, which to her included all golfers, hunters, and Dartmouth students.

The theater was tucked between a dairy farm and the field where the cows were once pastured. The experience of watching films here included the inconvenience of being interrupted by cows wandering through the parking lot on their way back to the barn. Eventually, the farmer put up a 6-foot-high metal fence around the drive-in parking area. Viewers haven’t been bothered by cows since, though they continue to put up with the high-pitched calls of frogs and crickets. On cool nights late in the season, the river valley fog can turn the screen gauzy or get so thick that viewers can’t see the screen at all.

The Trapps show films as scheduled, no matter the weather. “We can’t afford to get a reputation of not staying open when the weather turns sour,” says Peter. He has kept a movie running for a single car.

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He remembers one couple who came to a show on a rainy night.

To keep the water off the windshield, they extended a sheet of plywood over the cab of their pickup, counter-balancing the weight by perching a tire on top of it. “Those people were professional,” Trapp says.

People still talk about the reopening weekend of 1987. A couple from Connecticut named Ray and Elaine Herb took a chance on reviving the motel and drive-in, which had fallen into neglect after being shuttered for a few years.

The new owners showed Good Morning, Vietnam that weekend to a big, boisterous crowd. The picture intermittently dimmed and brightened, and the second reel ran completely the wrong way. “I nearly died,” Elaine told a local writer. “There was a helicopter flying upside down and backwards. It turned out the print hadn’t been rewound, and the leader was spliced on upsidedown. The projectionist stopped the show, and it took a while to fix. One fellow got out of his van and played the trumpet!”

The attraction of the drive-in has changed over time. These old cow-field setups had been synonymous with summer in the beginning, when there was little else going on in town. They remained a part of summer when drive-ins elsewhere, sitting on more expensive land, shut down in droves. They became a symbol.

Peter says he doesn’t really feel like the owner of the Fairlee.

“Closing this place would be like closing Mount Rushmore. It belongs to too many people.”

Still, someone must take up the mantle for the place to succeed. “I think drive-ins are the last batch of true American cinematic enterprise,” Dever says.

“You can’t hide the weak films. If the concessions are bad, they’re bad. You rise and fall on the strength and character of the person who is operating the drive-in.”

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THE NEW PROJECTOR finally arrived that spring. Trapp quickly learned that the days of receiving movies on eight or nine loaded reels weighing 55-plus pounds were long gone. New movies came on a petite hard drive, in a package smaller than a lunchbox.

A few computer glitches, some tense phone calls, and a five-hour service call later, it was ready to go. Cars trickled in and parked around the field, waiting. Night fell. Inside the booth, Trapp pulled a long orange string in front of the projector, lifting up a rusted metal curtain to reveal the hole in the cinder-block wall.

He tied the string to an old pipe, inserted the hard drive, and swiveled out a large computer screen.

“Welcome to the Starship Enterprise,” he said. Outside on the big screen, the dark scenes were crisp.

The bright scenes glowed. An explosion illuminated the entire parking lot. The sound, to Trapp’s ear, was much improved.

By Memorial Day weekend, the Kickstarter campaign sat nearly $10,000 shy of its goal with a week to go. A wet forecast kept the turnout low for Saturday’s double feature, though the air stayed dry and pleasantly warm. By 8 o’clock, a couple dozen cars were scattered around the lot. More crept along the gravel drive and pulled up to the ticket booth, where Cooper was handling the money.

Cash only. A driver said he only had plastic, but Cooper let him through and asked him to pay at the snack shack, where PJ, Tucker, and Erika took orders and served up fries, popcorn with Cabot butter, Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, and burgers fresh from their farm.

George Strait’s “Carrying Your Love With Me” warbled out of a nearby speaker.

The donations poured in: $5, $100, $1,000, from Vermont and New Hampshire, from New Jersey, from California. The following Saturday, on the last day of the

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While there, he glanced at the screen of his computer and saw a blinking notice. They'd done it. On account of 606 donations, a total of $38,075 raised, they officially met their goal.

Not all of the new costs were covered yet, but enough. Sometime after midnight, after the last

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Anno Domini This cutting-edge, urban showroom is credited with transforming the city’s art scene by instigating a First Friday art hop. Institute of Contemporary Art Using LED technology and custom electronics, artist Jim Campbell tests our ability to perceive images, opening November 15.

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RELAX Overlooking Seville Square in downtown, the Lee House is modeled after the 19th-century home of a Confederate Army officer. This boutique spot features nine different suites, each decorated to symbolize an important figure in the city’s history. Stay in the DeLuna suite named for Don Tristán de Luna y Arellano, the Spanish conquistador who settled in Pensacola in 1559.

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South Walton Unwind on the sands of South Walton during

nesting season to see turtles hatching and wandering back into the ocean, or bike the Timpoochee Trail to explore the area’s many charming and distinct neighborhoods.

SAVOR Seafood in Florida is no joke. At Stinky’s Fish Camp in Santa Rosa Beach, order the oyster log, which comes with 36 mollusks in six flavor-packed varieties, including smoked cheese and bacon, Rockefeller, and garlic butter. Or, if you’re feeling a little more adventurous, try a basket of fried frog legs.

You won’t have to eat frogs, but you can get an eyeful of them at George’s at Alys Beach. Founders

Ann and George Hartley have been collecting frog-themed items since 1983, and their assortment is displayed throughout their restaurant. When you’re not playing I Spy for amphibians, decide which side of their menu you want to explore: Behave (organic dishes) or Misbehave (fried goodness). For dinner starters, don’t miss the flatbread with truffled arugula, Parmesan, and pear.

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DO Take the 200-foot plunge and visit “the Great Carrier Reef,” 22 miles south of Pensacola. The USS Oriskany, which was built shortly after World War II and intentionally sunk in 2006, is today regarded as the largest artificial reef in the world. Don’t forget your underwater camera.

If you prefer to keep your head above water, hop aboard the Dare II, a Condor 40 trimaran. Of the 21 Condor 40s in the world, the Dare II is the only one used in recreational sailing. Expect a surprisingly smooth ride, even at speeds of up to 14 mph (an ordinary sailboat averages about 4 mph).

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SEE Although Grayton Beach State Park was once ranked one of the most beautiful beaches in America by coastal ecologist and author Stephen P. Leatherman (aka Dr. Beach), it’s still fairly quiet. Wander across the postcard-worthy sand dunes, and then watch the sun peacefully dip below the horizon.

DO Set aside an afternoon and go for a spin on Timpoochee Trail, named after a 19th-century Euchee Indian chief. The 18-mile path meanders through quaint neighborhoods and past beaches, dune lakes, and state parks. Follow the mile-by-mile guide on visitsouthwalton.com for a list of places to stop along the way.

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RELAX To fully unwind from a busy day in South Walton, kick up your feet on the balcony of your stylish condo at One Seagrove Place, overlooking the Gulf of Mexico. Each twobedroom, two-bath retreat has all the amenities you’ll need to make it a home away from home. With its location right on Seagrove Beach, you can enjoy complimentary beachside service (two chairs and an umbrella) while soaking up the sun. If you’re looking for a day in town, One Seagrove Place is located within walking distance of art galleries, top restaurants, and enough eclectic shops to fulfill all your souvenir shopping needs.

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SIP It’s always 5 o’clock somewhere along the beach. Growler Garage 30A in Gulf Place boasts 40 frosty beers on tap. Want to sip one on the sands? Fill a growler (essentially an oversize to-go bottle) with Grayton Beer’s 30A Beach Blonde Ale.

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SAVOR When looking up at the large, light-studded oak tree in Firefly’s main dining room, it’s not difficult to imagine you’re sitting outside a Mediterranean bistro. Try a bowl of the she-crab soup to whet your appetite, and then dig into the panseared Long Island duck breast,

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For a true Panama City Beach watering hole experience, find your way to Fishale Taphouse and Grill.

The gastropub opened just three years ago but has already made a name for itself as one North Florida’s favorite craft-beer houses. Try one (or a few, if you’re so inclined) of the more than 65 beers on tap, including locally, nationally, and internationally brewed drafts. If you don’t know where to start, go for the crowd-favorite Abita Andygator, or just ask for samples.

SEE Take a break from the beach for a bit and wander into the lush, forested Panama City Beach Conservation Park. The 2,900-acre escape is teeming with wildlife, so pack those binoculars and cameras for impromptu sightings.

DO Ahoy matey! Throw on a pirate hat and channel your inner Captain Jack Sparrow on board the 85foot Sea Dragon Pirate Cruise, a modern-day replica of a centuriesold pirate ship. This two-hour excursion travels along the coast as Captain “Fearless” Phil points out numerous species of birds and fish.

Young ones will stay entertained thanks to sword fighting, treasure maps, pirate tattoos, and even a pint-size cannon.

Want to get even closer to the water? Rent a surfboard or paddleboard from Mr. Surf ’s Surf Shop.

Before heading off to the beach, eye the Wall of Fame, featuring photos of patrons who have purchased boards from Mr. Surf ’s since the shop opened in 1980.

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/ SCOTTSDALE, ARIZONA Get Tropical For a taste of Brazil without the long trip, seek out Scottsdale’s sixth-annual Brazilian Day Arizona Festival. Take part in fun and interactive workshops— including classes in traditional dance and musical instruments—or try your hand (and foot) at the Brazilian martial art capoeira. Outside, bands playing samba, forró, pagode, and other South American tunes will get festivalgoers up on their feet. For the little ones there’s face painting and arts and crafts, as well as kid-themed dance and music lessons. A highlight of this year’s fest is an appearance by 114-year-old Brazilian author Bernando LaPallo. Talk about a classic. braziliandayarizona.com

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Outrun the Tortoise East of Orlando, Brevard County runs along the Atlantic Coast, and its beaches serve as nesting grounds for sea turtles. A crowd of nearly 3,000 will turn out in support of the marine critters at the Turtle Krawl 5K, which begins and ends at James Nance Park and loops through the streets of Indialantic. If a tortoise’s pace is more your speed, consider joining the competitive or noncompetitive walkers’ divisions. Kids can get moving too with the quarter-, half-, or full-mile routes, or the 50-yard finish-line sprint. Proceeds from the race benefit the Sea Turtle Preservation Society, particularly its commitment to funding the Brevard Zoo’s Sea Turtle Healing Center. (The county’s first rehabilitation facility for the aquatic reptiles opened in April 2014 thanks to Krawlers’ support.) Afterward, stick around for a postrace breakfast and massages. turtlekrawl.com SEPTEMBER 12–13 MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA

Sip through Silicon Valley Downtown’s Castro Street, with its charm and global influences, is an ideal locale for the Mountain View Art & Wine Festival, a multicultural celebration featuring food, music, brews, and, of course, art and wine.

This year’s event, the 44th annual, will highlight local varietals in the “Wine Haven, Taste of the Mountains Passport Days.” Sample vino from vintners like Domenico, Cinnabar, and Savannah-Chanelle, while enjoying hors d’oeuvres and live music. A diverse lineup of 13 bands performing everything from salsa and Motown to disco and jazz will grace the Civic Center Plaza Music Stage as well as multiple spots on the street. In between drinking and dancing, don’t miss the handcrafted wares of more than 600 artists set up along Castro. Buyers and browsers alike will appreciate the one-of-a-kind vases, clocks, dishes,

stained-glass, etchings, photography, jewelry, and more. Traveling with the family? The under-21 crowd is not forgotten here: Kids’ Park will feature bungee jumping, a 24-foot climbing wall, face painting, body art, and carnival rides. The community stage will also showcase an array of young performers in a live America’s Got Talent–style contest. mountainview.miramarevents.com SEPTEMBER 13 WINDSOR, VERMONT

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America’s favorite side dish gets a hand from gourmet Vermont cheese at the third-annual Vermont Mac & Cheese Challenge. Given that one of the festival’s chief sponsors is the neighboring Harpoon Brewery, there’ll be plenty of mouthwatering pairings from the region’s top chefs and restaurants, as well as brews available for purchase. (For those inclined to whine about the lack of wine, cheesemaker Rick Woods retorts, “Have you seen a cow eat a grape?”) Whether you’re into the nutty flavor of the AleHouse Cheddar or the spicy Hot Pepper WindsorDale, cheese connoisseurs, adults, and children will all get to vote for their favorite takes on the classic. While each chef prepares 200 pounds of cheesy goodness, dishes go quickly. vtmacandcheese.com SEPTEMBER 17–20 GRAPEVINE, TEXAS

Toast Texas Wine Get your fill of fine wine at the 29th annual GrapeFest, held 30 miles northwest of Dallas in downtown Grapevine. In addition to spotlighting the pride of vintners from across the Lone Star State, this year’s event will also feature bottles from Oregon and Argentina. Sip some bubbly while listening to live tunes on one of the Champagne Terrace stages, or roam the many wine pavilions for abundant samples. Cast your ballot at the People’s Choice Wine Tasting Classic, and show off your skills (and bravery) at the Champagne Cork

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Tablets or E-readers

Hearing Aids

Electronic Cigarettes and Smoking Devices

Laptop Computers

TV

Remote-Controlled Toys

que pesen 2 libras o más deben de

Flight Service debajo del asiento o ser guardados

en los compartimentos superiores mientras el avión avanza por la pista, durante el despegue y el aterrizaje.

Se recomienda que las computadoras portátiles se guarden en un Always Permitted estuche debajo del asiento.Never EnPermitted los vuelos internacionales, todos los PEDs deben permanecer apagados mientras el avión avanza por la pista, durante el despegue y el aterrizaje Never Permitted en aeropuertos fuera de los EE. UU. y susPacemakers territorios.

Por favor usa auriculaTwo-Way Radios Never Permitted res para cualquier sonido o video.

Television or AM/FM Radio Receivers

NFL Redzone

Messaging

Inflight Entertainment

Laptop Computers Laptop Computers Permitted Inflight Entertainment Computadoras Permitted Flight Service portátiles Laptop Computers NFL Redzone

TV

Wifi

Inflight Entertainment

Wifi

TV

Flight Service

Inflight Entertainment

Tablets or E-readers

TV

Flight Service

Movies

Flight Service Smart Phones

Smart Phones Always Permitted

Hearing Aids Radios Two-Way

DVD/CD Players Reproductores de DVD/CD Electronic Cigarettes and Smoking Devices

Digital Cameras Cámaras Electronic Cigarettes and digitales Smoking Devices GPS Receivers Remote-Controlled Toys GPS

Always Permitted Always Permitted

NFL Redzone

Wifi

Movies

Hearing Aids Laptop Computers

Audio Players Aparatos de Two-Way Radios audio

Permitted Pacemakers

Pacemakers Never Permitted

Satellite Radio Radio por satélite Electronic Cigarettes and

VideoSmoking Devices Camcorders Videocámaras

Bluetooth Devices Remote-Controlled Toys Dispositivos Bluetooth

Never Permitted Flight Service Hand-Held Never Permitted

Electronic Remote-Controlled Toys Games Juegos electrónicos Television or AM/FM Radio Receivers portátiles Always Permitted

Television or AM/FM Radio Receivers

Never Permitted

Two-Way Radios

Two-Way Radios

Always Permitted Pueden usarse en todo momento dentro del avión

Wifi

Permitted

Television or AM/FM Radio Receivers

NFL Redzone

Never Permitted Electronic nerve stimulators and other implanted medical devices Permitted Always Permitted are also permitted. Dispositivos de Movies Messaging Flight Service estimulación eléctrica de los nervios Tablets or E-readers y otros aparatos médicos implantados Pacemakers Tablets or E-readers Messaging Smart Phones Pacemakers Pacemakers Two-Way Radios también son permitidos.

Marcapasos

Permitted

Always Permitted

Wifi

Movies

Smart Phones

Flight Service Movies

Smart Phones

Permitted

Tablets or E-readers Always Permitted

Always Permitted TV

Pacemakers

Messaging

Never Permitted Laptop Computers

Never Permitted

Smart Phones

Hearing Aids

Hearing Aids Radios Hearing Aids Two-Way Aparatos para sordos Two-Way Radios

Tablets or E-readers

Electric Shavers Rastrillo Pacemakers eléctrico Electronic Cigarettes and Smoking Devices

Electronic Cigarettes and Electronic Smoking Devices Watches Relojes electrónicos Hearing Aids

Never Permitted Nunca pueden usarse dentro del avión

Hearing Aids Never Permitted

Remote-Controlled Toys

Electronic Cigarettes and

NoiseCanceling Two-Way Radios Headphones Auriculares que aislan el ruido

Electronic Cigarettes and Smoking Devices

Smoking Devices Laptop Computers Remote-Controlled Toys TV Tablets or E-readers Hearing Aids Electronic Cigarettes and Devices capable of transmitting data, Smoking Devices unless otherwise noted, are never permitted. Nunca son permitidos Messaging Tablets or E-readers Hearing Aids Electronic Cigarettes and Smoking Devices los dispositivos con capacidad para TV Laptop Computers Remote-Controlled Toys Television or AM/FM Radio Receivers NFL Redzone Smart Phones Pacemakers Two-Way Radios Two-Way Radios Electronic Television or Remotetransmitir datos, excepto que se (Walkie-Talkies) Cigarettes and AM/FM Radio Controlled Toys Laptop Computers Remote-Controlled Toys Pacemakers Two-Way Radios especifique lo contrario. or Scanners Smoking Devices Receivers Juguetes de Radios emisoCigarrillos Televisión o Receivers control remoto or AM/FM Radio NFL Redzone Laptop Computers Remote-Controlled ToysTelevision TV res/receptores electrónicos y radios de AM/ TV Laptop Computers Remote-Controlled Toys (walkie-talkies) dispositivos para FM Television or AM/FM Radio Receivers NFL Redzone fumar Tablets or E-readers Hearing Aids Electronic Cigarettes and

Messaging

Hearing Aids

Electronic Cigarettes and Smoking Devices

Television or AM/FM Radio Receivers

Smoking Devices

Television or AM/FM Radio Receivers

NFL Redzone

Television or AM/FM Radio Receivers

NFL Redzone Remote-Controlled Toys

Laptop Computers

CREW INTERFERENCE Federal law prohibits any Passenger from assaulting, threatening, or intimidating a Crew Member or interfering with a Crew Member’s duties. La ley federal prohíbe que los pasajeros asalten, amenacen o intimiden a los Miembros de la Tripulación o que interfieran con los deberes de un Miembro de la Tripulación.

DISABILITY ASSISTANCE Southwest Airlines offers assistance to Customers with disabilities upon request. Southwest Airlines siempre ofrece asistencia para sus clientes con discapacidades que lo pidan.

ELECTRONIC DEVICES Cellphones and pagers may be used at the gate and after landing.

Los teléfonos y localizadores pueden ser usados en la puerta y después de aterrizar.

CARRYON BAGGAGE Customers are limited to one (1) bag per person, plus one (1) additional personal item. El límite es de una (1) maleta por persona y un (1) artículo personal.

LOST AN ITEM ONBOARD A FLIGHT? Visit the Customer Service page on Southwest.com to report a lost item.

Visita la página de Servicio al Cliente en Southwest.com para reportar un objeto perdido.

PETS All pets must stay inside their carriers and under the seat for the duration of the flight. Todas las mascotas deben permanecer dentro de sus jaulas y debajo del asiento durante todo el vuelo.

ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES Customers are prohibited from consuming alcoholic beverages not purchased onboard. Alcoholic beverages will not be served to anyone under the age of 21. We reserve the right to refuse the sale of alcoholic beverages to anyone. Se prohíbe que los Clientes consuman bebidas alcohólicas si no fueron compradas a bordo. No serviremos bebidas alcohólicas a las personas menores de 21 años de edad. Nos reservamos el derecho de negar la venta de bebidas alcohólicas a cualquier persona.

PERSONAL DEVICES Unapproved personal devices (e.g., Knee Defender, infant slings) may not be attached to any part of the aircraft. Dispositivos personales no aprobados (por ejemplo, “defensor de rodillas”, manta portabebés) no pueden sujetarse a cualquier parte de la aeronave.

Remote-Controlled Toys

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COMMUNITY OUTREACH

Vision Quest

A Silicon Valley institute gives students creative tools.

CENTER STAGE

Students share perspectives at the annual PTP summit.

Picture the Possibilities is an initiative of the Silicon Valley–based Cinequest nonprofit institute, which hosts the annual Cinequest Film Festival. Four years ago, I worked with the co-founders of Cinequest, Kathleen J. Powell and Halfdan Hussey, to launch PTP. At the time, I did not know the impact the program would have.

As the manager of PTP, I have met and worked with hundreds of youth, ages 13 to 18. Thanks to sponsors such as Southwest Airlines, we are able to give these young people an incredible, life-changing opportunity.

By teaching them how to create films about subjects that are relevant to them,

we help fuel their creativity and empower them to follow their dreams. After seeing how to turn a concept into reality, they can then apply this creative process to other areas of their lives.

PTP’s slogan is “Picture the Possibilities. Picture it.

Create it.” Our weeklong sessions introduce our “7 Powers of Creating” philosophy and its practical applications to youth from across the world. At the end of each event season, participants come to the PTP Summit in Silicon Valley, where they collaborate with peers and mentors, celebrate their ideas and creativity, and showcase their work.

Shannon Ortega, a high schooler from New York, says of her experience:

“The PTP Summit shifted my life. It opened my eyes to show me anything is possible.”

“PTP’s 7 Powers of Creating help to achieve any goal,” says Trey Lutton of Silicon Valley, who was in middle school when he participated. “It can be something big that will change the world or something small, like doing better in school.”

As much as the participants are inspired through PTP, they have been an even bigger inspiration to me and my team, motivating us to execute the program and summits on a bigger and better scale each year. With the support of our sponsors, global youth can discover the many possibilities that this world holds for them: For example, they can travel to places they want to explore or start the innovative new company that they envision. In other words, they can create anything they put their minds to.

So whenever things get tough I remind people to focus on the possibilities.

Picture it. Create it. No one is stopping us. With a little help from fellow participants, leaders, and partners like Southwest, anything is possible. —Marcela Villegas

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INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL

BEVERAGES

Customs & Immigration 1

FORM APPROVED OMB NO. 1651-0009

19 CFR 122.27, 148.12, 148.13, 148.110,148.111, 1498; 31 CFR 5316

Each arriving traveler or responsible family member must provide the following information (only ONE written declaration per family is required). The term “family” is defined as “members of a family residing in the same household who are related by blood, marriage, domestic relationship, or adoption.”

1 Family Name

First (Given) 2 Birth date

Middle Month

Day

Year

3 Number of Family members traveling with you 4 (a) U.S. Street Address (hotel name/destination

(b) City

6 Passport number 7 Country of Residence 8 Countries visited on this

trip prior to U.S. arrival

11 I am (We are) bringing

(a) fruits, vegetables, plants, seeds, food, insects: (b) meats, animals, animal/wildlife products: (c) disease agents, cell cultures, snails: (d) soil or have been on a farm/ranch/pasture:

12 I have (We have) been in close proximity of livestock:

Yes

No

Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

No No No No No

Yes

No

Yes

No

(such as touching or handling)

13 I am (We are) carrying currency or monetary instruments

over $10,000 U.S. or foreign equivalent:

(see definition of monetary instruments on reverse)

14 I have (We have) commercial merchandise: (articles for sale, samples used for soliciting orders, or goods that are not considered personal effects)

15 RESIDENTS—the total value of all goods, including commercial merchandise

I/we have purchased or acquired abroad, (including gifts for someone else, but not items mailed to the U.S.) and am/are bringing to the U.S. is: $ VISITORS—the total value of all articles that will remain in the U.S., including commercial merchandise is: $

Read the instructions on the back of this form. Space is provided to list all the items you must declare.

I HAVE READ THE IMPORTANT INFORMATION ON THE REVERSE SIDE OF THIS FORM AND HAVE MADE A TRUTHFUL DECLARATION.

Date (month/day/year)

CBP Form 6059B (04/14)

for passengers coming from abroad

1 Name(s) Nationality

• Omission to declare whether coming in or out of the Mexico´s customs amounts of cash, in domestic or foreign checks, payment orders or any other documents receivable in an aggregate amount exceeding the equivalent of 10,000 US dollars or its equivalent in domestic or foreign currency, which action will be punishable with a fine of 20 to 40% of the exceeding amount and the corresponding criminal penalties will be applied.

• Introduction into or extraction of goods from Mexico, using deceitful methods to hide items, when their imports or exports is prohibited, restricted or because foreign trade duties must be paid, will be punishable with fines ranging, to 70 or 100%, of the commercial value of merchandise.

• Omission of the total or partial payment of foreign trade duties. When failure consist of only a duty omission and the goods do not exceed 3,000 US dollars or its equivalent In domestic or foreign currency, the penalty will consist of up to 116% of the commercial value of the items. Once the duties have been paid, the Customs Authority will make the items available to the passenger.

• If the corresponding documentation required by the Customs Law prove that the merchandise was properly submitted for proper customs procedures in order to enter the country, is not exhibited, a precautionary seizure of the non declared goods as well as the corresponding vehicle, in case the passengers entered the country by land, will proceed.

• For non declared items which do not comply with regulations and restrictions other than duties, abandonment can be declared once the corresponding fine is paid.

Issue on 2013. Please look up for changes in this information when you are visiting us again at customs desk or at www.aduanas.gob.mx

sat.gob.mx

aduanas.gob.mx

U.S. Customs Declaration Form*

Who must complete this form: • All Passengers (or one Passenger per family with the same address) bound for the U.S. How to complete this form: • Complete before arrival in the U.S. • Write in English, in capital letters.

• Be sure to include the street name and number, city, and state of your address in the U.S. • If you are transiting through the U.S., you may write TRANSIT and your final destination country.

• Lines 5 and 6 may be left blank if not using a passport.

• On Line 9, enter WN for Southwest, followed by your specific flight number.

• Please read both sides of the declaration.

• Sign at the “X.”

Mexican Customs Declaration Form

Who must complete this form: • All Passengers (or one Passenger per family with the same address) on flights bound for Mexico.

How to complete this form: • Complete sections 1–6.

• Once completed, sign and date the form.

Dewar’s® Scotch Jack Daniel’s® Wild Turkey® Tanqueray® Gin

• Bacardi® Rum • Baileys® Irish Cream • Finlandia® Vodka

Please read the instructions prior to filling this form: Every passenger or head of household must provide the following information.

Last name(s)

PAYMENT OF DUTIES

Mexican laws establish among others the following penalties and sanctions related to the importation of goods into the country:

• • • •

Welcome to Mexico

Passengers may import items to their personal baggage without requiring the services of a customs agent by paying a global rate of 16%, provided that the total amount, excluding the duty free exemption, does not exceed 3,000 US dollars or its equivalent in domestic or foreign currency as long as an invoice, proof of payment or any other document that proves the commercial value of the items is provided.

INFRACTIONS AND SANCTIONS

9 Airline/Flight No. or Vessel Name 10 The primary purpose of this trip is business:

Signature

During the vacation periods of Holy week, summer and winter, Mexican Nationals entering the country by land may import, under duty exemption, items of up to 300 US dollars or its equivalent in domestic or foreign currency provided that such people do not live along the border strip or border region. The starting and ending dates of such periods can be consulted directly with customs personnel or at www. aduanas.gob.mx.

Liquor $5

3

Customs Declaration

2. Free of duty imports: passengers entering the country by sea or by air may import goods of duty, additional to their personal baggage, as long as they prove their value with an invoice or receipt and such amount does not exceed 300 US dollars or its equivalent in domestic or foreign currency or 75 US dollars when the entry is by land.

Alcoholic beverages, shredded tobacco or automobile fuel cannot be imported as part of the duty free exemption.

• Duties can be paid using the form “Pago de contribuciones al comercio exterior” (Foreign trade tax payment).

• The total value of computer equipment, added to the rest of the items above cannot exceed 4,000 US dollars or its equivalent in domestic or foreign currency.

• Items subject to compliance, regulations other than payment of duties (permits, certificates, and notifications) cannot be imported.

• In order to determine the tax basis, the duty free exemptions mentioned in number 2 could be deducted from the value of the items.

(c) State

5 Passport issued by (country)

✗

2

This Space For Offical Use Only

Customs Declaration

Cheers!

Date of birth

Day

Month

Year

Beer $5

Wine $5

• Bud Light® • Miller Lite® • Dos Equis® Special Lager • Leinenkugel’s® Summer Shandy • Fat Tire®

• Hacienda Chardonnay • Carmenet Cabernet Sauvignon

Passport number

2

VISITORS T Number of days you will stay in Mexico RESIDENTS OF MEXICO Number of days you stayed abroad

3

Number of family members traveling with you Number of luggage pieces (bags and packages) you bring with you Missing luggage or luggage to be imported by cargo (pieces) (See Notification 1 of this form)

4 MEANS OF TRANSPORTATION Mark with an X the means of transportation Maritime Vessel No.

Ground Transport No.

Air Flight No.

5 Carrying money in cash, receivables or a combination of both is legal; however, not declaring the total amount when more than the equivalent of 10,000 US dollars is carried may be subject to administrative or criminal penalties.

Are you carrying amounts in cash, documents receivable (checks, promissory notes, payment orders, etc.) or a combination of them, the combined total of which exceeds 10,000 US dollars or their equivalent in national or foreign currency?

No If you have answered Yes, please declare the total amount in US dollars

Yes

$

If you answer Yes, you must also fill out the “Declaración de internación o extracción de cantidades en efectivo y/o documento por cobrar” (Customs Declaration for the import/export of cash, receivables or equivalent documents), which you can request from the customs personnel in charge at the entry ports to Mexico or download it from the Customs Internet Site: www.aduanas.gob.mx

Mexican Immigration Form

Who must complete this form: • All Passengers (including children) who are not citizens of Mexico, on flights bound for Mexico.

How to complete this form: • Complete sections 1–14 on the top portion of the form and sections 1–10 on the bottom portion of the form.

• Once completed, sign and date the top portion of the form.

• Sections on the form titled “USO OFICIAL” are for use by Mexican Immigration officials and should not be filled out by Passengers.

What to do with this form: • The form will be separated as Passengers proceed through Mexican Customs.

• Make sure to retain the bottom portion of the form, which serves as your visa while in Mexico. It must be surrendered at time of checkin for your return flight. Passengers unable to present this form at time of departure will be fined

by Mexican Immigration. * Go to cbp.gov to download, fill out, and print this form before your next international flight.

Complimentary Beverages • • • • • • • • • • • •

Coca-Cola® Coke Zero™ Diet Coke® Sprite® Sprite Zero™ Dr Pepper® Diet Dr Pepper® Seagram’s® Ginger Ale Seagram’s® Tonic Water Seagram’s® Seltzer Water Tomato Juice Mr & Mrs T® Bloody Mary Mix

• Minute Maid® Cranberry Apple Cocktail • Minute Maid® Orange Juice • Minute Maid® Apple Juice • LIFT® Coffee* • Decaf Coffee* • Tea • Hot Chocolate • Noncarbonated Purified Drinking Water * Creamer available

Valid Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards® drink coupons, as shown here, are printed with expiration dates and the Member’s (or issuing group’s) name.

Business Select® drink coupons are valid for same-day use only. Valid Rapid Rewards and Business Select drink coupons will be accepted onboard for beer, wine, and liquor.

Recycling

We’re happy to take care of any recyclable items, including plastic bottles, coffee cups, newspapers, and food containers.

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INFLIGHT ENTERTAINMENT PORTAL

Getting Connected: iOS To connect to our entertainment portal using your iOS device*, follow the instructions below.

Connect to Southwest WiFi

1. Tap the Settings icon.

2. Tap the WiFi icon.

3. Tap the On/Off button and 4. Tap SouthwestWiFi in turn WiFi On. the list of WiFi networks and confirm connection.

Launch the entertainment portal

The entertainment portal is your direct source for our inflight entertainment options.

5. Tap the Safari icon.

6. Our entertainment portal 7. Select your entertainment should load automatically. If option and enjoy. not, click the address bar and type in southwestwifi.com.

More Information: • Content and services are offered on WiFi-enabled aircraft only. We cannot guarantee that connecting flights will be WiFi-enabled.

• Service on flights to/from destinations outside the contiguous U.S. may not currently be available for the entire flight.

• Movies and select TV content require download of the free Onboard Player app.

• Pricing information can be found on the Inflight Entertainment Portal.

• In order to provide a top-notch WiFi experience, we prohibit access to certain high-bandwidth applications and websites, including Netflix, HBO Go, and VoIP. We also prohibit access to certain obscene or offensive content.

*Instructions shown on an iPhone® 6. Your iOS device may vary slightly.

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Getting Connected: Android

™

To connect to our entertainment portal using your Android device**, follow the instructions below.

Connect to Southwest WiFi

1. Tap the Settings icon.

2. Tap the WiFi icon.

3. Tap the On/Off button and 4. Tap SouthwestWiFi in turn WiFi On. the list of WiFi networks and confirm connection.

Launch the entertainment portal

The entertainment portal is your direct source for our inflight entertainment options.

5. Tap the Internet icon.

6. Our entertainment portal 7. Select your entertainment should load automatically. If option and enjoy. not, click the address bar and type in southwestwifi.com.

**Instructions shown on Samsung Galaxy SÂŽ 6. Your Android device may vary slightly.

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INFLIGHT ENTERTAINMENT PORTAL

Getting Connected: Laptops To connect to our entertainment portal using your Mac or PC laptop*, follow the instructions below.

Connect to Southwest WiFi MAC

PC

1. Click the WiFi icon.

MAC

PC

2. Select SouthwestWiFi from the list of WiFi networks by clicking on it and confirm connection.

Launch the entertainment portal

The entertainment portal is your direct source for our inflight entertainment options.

MAC

PC

3. Open your preferred Web browser.

MAC & PC

MAC & PC

4. Our entertainment portal should load automatically. If not, click the address bar and type in southwestwifi.com.

More Information: • Content and services are offered on WiFi-enabled aircraft

• • • • 5. Select your entertainment option and enjoy.

only. We cannot guarantee that connecting flights will be WiFi-enabled.

Service on flights to/from destinations outside the contiguous U.S. may not currently be available for the entire flight.

Movies and select TV content require download of the free Onboard Player app.

Pricing information can be found on the Inflight Entertainment Portal.

In order to provide a top-notch WiFi experience, we prohibit access to certain high-bandwidth applications and websites, including Netflix, HBO Go, and VoIP. We also prohibit access to certain obscene or offensive content.

*The appearance of content on your laptop may vary slightly.

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Flight. Rental car. Rapid Rewards.

Check. Check. Check yeah. ®

At Southwest.com,® you can rent a car when you book a flight, all in one simple transaction. You’ll find great rates with the added benefit of earning Rapid Rewards Points with our car Partners. Experience less hassle and more return. It’s a booking experience that can really take you places.

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Rapid Rewards.

The name says it all. ®

What makes Rapid Rewards so great? With unlimited reward seats and no blackout dates, you can fly any day of the year, and if a seat’s available, it’s yours! Plus, your points won’t expire*.

When you reach tier status, you’ll enjoy the same great benefits of Rapid Rewards, along with a whole lot more!

A-List tier benefits

A-List Gary Kelly 378076624 Valid thru:

12/15

A-List Preferred

• Priority boarding • Fly By® Priority Checkin and Security Lane access** • 25% point-earning bonus Southwest.com/ ALstatus

Gary Kelly 378076624 Valid thru:

12/15

A-List Preferred tier benefits

Companion Pass

All the benefits of A-List, plus: • 100% point-earning bonus • Free Inflight WiFi (when available) Southwest.com/ ALPstatus

Gary Kelly 378076624 Valid thru:

12/15

Companion Pass status

Earn Companion Pass and you can choose one person to fly free***with you for an entire calendar year!

Southwest.com/ CPstatus ***Does not include taxes and fees from $5.60 one-way.

Make your points go further.

You can earn rewards faster with the Rapid Rewards Points Center. Buy points for yourself, give them as a gift, or transfer points from your Rapid Rewards account to another—all from one location.

Visit Southwest.com/pointscenter to get started.

Earn even faster with the Rapid Rewards Credit Card.

PREMIER CARD EXCLUSIVE BENEFITS: • Earn 2 points per $1 spent on Southwest Airlines purchases made directly with the airline.

• Earn 2 points per $1 spent on Rapid Rewards Hotel and Rental Car Partner purchases.

• Earn 1 point per $1 spent on all other purchases.

• Earn 6,000 bonus points after your Cardmember Anniversary.

• Redeem points for International flights, cruises, hotel stays, rental cars, gift cards, and access to exclusive events.

Visit Southwest.com/applytoday to learn more. *Benefits apply to points transactions. Points don’t expire as long as you have flight or Partner earning activity every 24 months. **For a complete list of available Fly By locations, visit Southwest. com/flyby. All Rapid Rewards rules and regulations apply and can be found at Southwest.com/rrterms. Accounts subject to credit approval. Restrictions and limitations apply. Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards Visa Credit Cards are issued by Chase Bank USA, N.A. Offer subject to change. See Southwest.com/apply today for pricing and rewards details. ©2015 Southwest Airlines Co.

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Enroll now!

It’s free and easy to join Rapid Rewards!

Sign up now at Southwest.com/enroll.

Earn more points when you visit our Partners.

Hotels Receive up to 750 points per qualifying stay.**** Visit Southwest.com/hotels to earn now.

Radisson Blu Radisson® Country Inns & Suites

By CarlsonSM Park Inn by Radisson Park Plaza®

Ascend Hotel Collection Comfort Inn Comfort Suites Quality Sleep Inn Clarion Cambria Suites MainStay Suites Suburban Econo Lodge Rodeway Inn

Park Hyatt® Andaz® Grand Hyatt® Hyatt Regency® Hyatt Place™ HYATT House™ Hyatt Zilara Hyatt Ziva Hyatt Centric™

Earn from 1,000 to 5,000 points per night for every hotel stay booked through Rocketmiles. Visit rocketmiles.com/southwest to earn now.

Rental Cars Receive 600 points per qualifying rental.**** Visit Southwest.com/car-rentals to earn now.

JW Marriott® EDITION® Autograph Collection® Hotels Renaissance® Hotels Marriott® Hotels Courtyard by Marriott® Gaylord Hotels® Marriott Executive Apartments® SpringHill Suites by Marriott® Fairfield Inn and Suites by Marriott® Residence Inn by Marriott® TownePlace Suites by Marriott® Marriott Vacation Club® Moxy Hotels® AC Hotels by Marriott® Protea Hotels®

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Aloft® Element® Four Points by Sheraton® Le Meridien® Luxury Collection® Sheraton® St. Regis® W Hotels® Westin®

Home & Lifestyle Earn points when you sign up for qualified electric service plans in participating states. Visit Southwest.com/energy.

Energy Plus services CT, IL, MA, MD, NJ, NY, OH, and PA. Reliant and Everything Energy TX.

Shop & Dine

Specialty

Earn 3 points per $1 spent. Join Rapid Rewards Dining for free today at rapidrewardsdining.com.

Rapid Rewards Members can earn 1,000 points per order of $29.99 or more. Visit 1800flowers.com/rapidrewards.

Rapid Rewards Shopping®

Earn Rapid Rewards Points for shopping with many of your favorite online retailers! Visit rrshopping.southwest.com to learn more.

Earn up to 22 points per $1 spent on tickets to your favorite sports, concert, and theater events. Visit scorebig.com/southwest to get started.

Earn points for sharing your opinions with e-Rewards.

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Earn points for reading and responding to marketing messages.

Visit e-miles.com/swapartner to get started.

Earn points by taking online surveys with Valued Opinions.

Learn more at www.valuedopinions.com.

Ground Transportation Receive up to 300 points for qualified travel to and from participating airports.

****Potential to earn additional points depending on applicable promotion. All Rapid Rewards rules and regulations apply and can be found at Southwest.com/rrterms. ©2015 Southwest Airlines Co.

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TERMINAL MAPS

International Connections

For departure times and gate numbers, check airport monitors or ask a Gate Agent.

Atlanta (ATL)

Baltimore (BWI)

Chicago (MDW)

Denver (DEN)

Milwaukee (MKE)

Orlando (MCO)

Domestic North Terminal and International Terminal

Main Terminal, between Concourses A and C

Main Terminal

Main Terminal

Main Terminal

Terminal A

DOMESTIC DEPARTURES

Concourse C

Concourses A, B, and C

Concourses A and B

Concourses A and C

Concourse C

Airside 2

INTERNATIONAL DEPARTURES

Concourse C

Concourses A, B, and C

Concourse A

Concourses A and C

Concourse C

Airside 2

From Nassau and Oranjestad: Concourse C

From Cancún, Montego Bay, and Punta Cana: Concourse E

Concourse A

Concourse A

International Arrivals Building

Main Terminal

Main Terminal

For arrivals from Cancún: Main Terminal

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