♪ Delicious things to eat ♪ ♪ The popcorn can't be beat ♪ ♪ The sparkling drinks are just ♪ The chocolate bars and the can - [Naomi] It's not just watching It's very different.

- [Jan] I think it's just kind of a holdover from the '50s that you just come here I don't think its really changed that much.

- Hi folks, what do you wanna se - Michael Jungden came up here i to manage the Mansfield Drive-in And it was in a sorry state of d weeds and grass everywhere.

He had to really clean it up and he worked very hard to get i That became his passion.

- Just thought that there was a way to make it work and that I could make something And I was also thinking about th that someday I'd be the only one doing this.

- [Jan] I'm a musician.

♪ I got my rock and roll dreams in my back pocket ♪ ♪ Look out now ♪ I knew who he was, but then I was playing at the local bar here and that's where I re-met him and we started seeing each other It was his smile and his eyes and I felt when I was playing, I felt that he understood exactly what I was doing musical which may or may not have been t but I felt that he was very focused on my music, and yeah.

- And it was obvious to me and m as we were growing up.

Like, we both have said that, "oh, they gave us an example of what love truly is."

- It's really hard to pinpoint, like, what my earliest childhood memory is here because it's home.

You know, like, if you ask someb what their earliest childhood memory is of their house, it's hard to tell 'cause it just kind of fades in 'cause it's where I've always be - Naomi came to the drive-in when she was really small.

She was born in June and we came that summer, so she was only a few weeks old.

I'm walking around with her and she's just looking around, like, with the cars and the movi and just very bright-eyed.

It's a memory I won't forget.

- You go into an indoor theater and everybody has to hush to watch the movie, whereas at a drive-in, they sit in the car, they can talk to each other, they can bring their kids without disturbing the rest of t - Michael was a cancer survivor.

He had cancer in his twenties, so he felt that every day was a We lived life to the fullest.

He did too.

We loved to travel.

- I think it was a wake up call in that life is precious and you never know, you know, kind of what's gonna h and every day, you know, is just so beautiful.

I was actually here, you know, w when he got the phone call.

And I just remember hearing, you his voice just kind of dropped and he got off the phone and I looked at him and I was like, "what was that about?"

And he's like...

He just looked at me and he goes, "I have cancer."

- He fought it for a few years, but unfortunately that is what ended up taking his life.

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- [Naomi] We've really gone out of our way to keep it 1950s and it is, I think, a little bit more authentic 1950s.

You know, we kind of want people like they're in a time capsule in a lot of ways and also not in some ways.

- [Jan] We try to keep it classi We have a big old fashioned popcorn machine so there is some nostalgia, but then it also became somewhat in that we had to go digital or else we wouldn't be in busine There's no film anymore.

So that was a big investment in ♪ So won't you come and take a ride with me ♪ ♪ I can't think of any better company than ♪ ♪ You and I driving all around town with a radio up ♪ ♪ And the top down to see the clouds are gone ♪ ♪ The sky is blue and I'm in love with you ♪ - As you can see, we have this beautiful 1957 Cadillac El Dorado Biarritz.

We were at a 4H fair and Michael goes, "that's the car."

I'm like, "what car?"

"That's the car."

It's the car he always wanted and he was able to get it.

- It definitely brings me back t He loved that car and I know that he wanted us to enjoy it as well.

And having my mom drive it, it just reminds me of my dad dri And he used to love taking it out in the summer, and now it's my mom doing it.

- Alright, so I take it you boys are sitting there for the movie?

- Yeah, probably.

- Yeah.

- And you two are chilling out u - If you had asked me 20 years a if I was going to run the Mansfield Drive-in, I would've laughed and been like "no way, no way."

Like, I always have loved the dr but I never saw myself, you know, taking it over or being, you know, the person that's running it.

- [Elena] It was kind of a tough decision for me, 'cause there were parts of me that wasn't sure if I wanted to do the drive-in for my whole life or whatever that entailed, but I felt as though it was very for me and my sister to kind of be involved in it.

- I do it because it's just such a wonderful thing and it's something too where people come here and make and, you know, I'm not the only person by far that has memories of being here when you were a small child.

And that's something that, you k kids nowadays are coming and, you know, getting to make new memories.

It's cool in that it's, you know, perpetual.

- So my dad, his life was the dr and that translated to our famil and I think that it grew past what my dad had necessarily planned it to be because now it is something where the community sees it as a family event.

And I think it does show how he started this one thing hoping that it was going to do o He kind of brought it back from when it was pretty much fai and he made it into this really beautiful family-friendly event and it was like passing the torc - They're here a lot running the They're doing a great job.

I know Michael would be so proud of them too, that they're just...

It's a dream come true that they're keeping it going.