The coronavirus may actually be helping one kind of business: Drive-in Theaters.
What better way to go out, see a movie and still maintain social distance?
The experience is pure 1950s. Head out at dusk, find that perfect spot in an enormous parking lot. Watch a movie on an enormous screen with sound in your car.
Of course, today there are only 305 drive-ins know to the United Drive-in Theatre Owners Association. Thousands still stand in the skeletal form across the country.
But this form of entertainment is not only unique, it's a group experience that's also isolated. At least, if you want it to be.
Isolation wasn't the goal of teens in the 1950s who managed to park side-by-side, girls in one car, boys in another.
Rick Good spent ten years in the newspaper business, including with The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) and The Greenville News (Greenville, SC). He co-wrote, with Melinda Coleman, Rutledge to Riley: Governors of South Carolina, 1776–Present (Published by The Greenville News), and is the author of Mind Games Trivia #1 (Amazon). He has recently spent 15 years creating original trivia content through Sounds Good Mobile Entertainment and continues that with his new company, SGME Software. He edits The Smart Reader’s money, real estate, and business coverage.