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, despite repping a third of the over 1K supply of theaters open, continue to rake in the most business, with a majority of the top-grossing 135 locations in the US being drive-ins. Yesterday, the top 5 were Cine-Drive in Saint Eustache, Quebec; the Sacramento 6 in CA, the Capitol 6 in San Jose, CA; the Transit Drive-in in Lockport, NY; and the Vali-Hi in Lake Elmo, Minnesota.
Meanwhile, Newsom’s co-owned wine tasting room, Plumpjack in Oakville, CA, remained open. Plumpjack resides in Napa County, which wasn’t on Newsom’s list of county closures, according to. It’s double standards such as these which drive movie theaters and small business owners mad as they try to stay alive financially, and are making great strides to provide clean and safe environments during the COVID-19 pandemic .
Says independent movie theater owner Rick Roman, who has cinemas in Kentucky and Delaware, “Theaters are one of the safest things to do now for getting out of the house. A moviegoer typically spends about 5 to 7 minutes getting their tickets and concessions, then go to their socially distanced seat to watch a two-hour movie. There is no talking, no servers and bus boys walking around you. The people in the country have this itch to get out of the house.
On a 100-degree day that turned into a 76-degree night, it was a diversion and beautiful to watch a movie in the rolling country hills, especially at a time when we’re not allowed to go to the pool. I hear the drive-ins such as the Mission Tikki in Montclair, CA have silver screens and state of the art sound.
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