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Drive-In Theaters may be the perfect entertainment venue in our current Social Distancing environment.
You can take the family out to watch a movie, and instead of being cramped in a confined cinema house remain in you car outdoors while parked safely the recommended six feet from your fellow movie goers.
That’s actually a good idea. The idea of sitting elbow to elbow with strangers never appealed to me, and now, even less so.
I imagine it wouldn’t take long to buy an empty field, pave it over, and put up a big screen. Maybe three months. Unless the federal government does it: then a year.
Watching how some local control freaks reacted to drive up churches the past couple of weekends I would think probably not. Even if the modern economy car has a better sound system and more comfortable seating than the luxury cars of the era when drive in theatres were a thing.
They just take up to much real estate for the limited amount of revenue a car can generate. And the home streaming system is a much better option, even with fears of digital piracy
Watching how some local control freaks reacted to drive up churches the past couple of weekends I would think probably not. Even if the modern economy car has a better sound system and more comfortable seating than the luxury cars of the era when drive in theatres were a thing.
They just take up to much real estate for the limited amount of revenue a car can generate. And the home streaming system is a much better option, even with fears of digital piracy
There are plenty of dead or soon to be dead malls with very large empty parking lots that are generating no income at all.
There are plenty of dead or soon to be dead malls with very large empty parking lots that are generating no income at all.
It still doesn't make sitting in a car looking at a screen a better option than what ever new price point above the matinee price that TV streaming now charges.
In the end the same nanny state police that is ticketing church attendees for daring to come outside and defy governments will attack those who drive to a non essential location for a second rate viewing experience. One that only existed because of the social norms forbidding extra marital sex. An additional reason for the death of the drive in has also largely disappeared since the heyday of drive in movie theatres.
I saw parts of a lot(well some anyway ) of movies in the mid 80's while in High School at our local Drive in.
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) of movies in the mid 80's while in High School at our local Drive in.
