Old business models that might be new again

[DeminPennswoods]

How about drive-in movies? The technology exists now that you wouldn't have to reach out and touch a speaker to hang on your car's window. You could get the sound on your bluetooth speakers, phone or wireless earbuds.

When I was younger, I can remember going into Pittsburgh to shop and my mom buying something and saying "send it". The next day or so a department store delivery truck would show up at the door with whatever you bought.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. We have already surpassed those models.

We don't have to go out to any kind of movie theater any more because we have Netflix and other streaming services. We don't have to go into a store and tell them to "send it" because we can order almost anything online.

[DeminPennswoods]

3. For people who don't want to sit around their

house all day and maybe want to get out and socialize.

FTR, the big department stores were offering free home delivery 60 years ago. The old saying "there's nothing new, just people too young to remember" applies here.

[C_U_L8R]

2. Fashion will take a new/old turn...

[SixString]

4. Most drive-in audio comes through the car radio now.

[yonder]

5. carbon paper for.....carbon copies?

[JCMach1]

6. Cube farm informal offices are dead and The enclosed office will be back...

[JCMach1]

7. and TINY HOUSES? DOA

[KatyMan]

20. I think they were a ploy by the 1%

To get us used to being itinerant not owning property beyond what you could carry yourself to your next job.

[nuxvomica]

8. There was an NYT article a few days ago about drive-ins

Apparently, some are opening early this year to pick up the slack from hard-top theatre closings.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

9. The milk man?

Fuller Brush and Knapp Shoe door-to-door salesmen (each with a certificate of health)?

More drive-in restaurants similar to Sonic?

More full-service gas stations?

Return to old-fashioned doctor's offices with just one or two doctors?

Return to real emergency rooms in hospitals (with separated mini-clinic for runny noses)?

Smaller nursing homes?

KY.............

[DeminPennswoods]

10. Bread delivery man, too

The Nickles truck was a bakery on wheels that rolled up to your door.

Doctors making house calls.

I'm not much of a movie goer although I've seen a few on the big screen in that comfy theater seating with surround sound. But drive-ins were always a fun evening when I was little.

Fast food places with no seating, like the original McDonald's.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

11. Yes, whatever we need to do to minimize the number of people....

involved in each human interaction and transaction. If that means going back to some of our old-fashioned ways, I'm all for it (being an old-fashioned person).

I've always preferred the old country small town locally-owned stores but I doubt if that ever returns with any scale.

What you said brings back a lot of memories!..........

[DeminPennswoods]

12. Maybe after all this, we will all slow down and

stop and smell the roses, appreciate the little things in life more. Do we really need stores open 24 hours a day or 7 days a week? The local Walmart seems to be doing fine open only 12 hours now. I'm not religious or a church-goer, but when the blue laws were on the books, Sundays were, nice relaxing days.

I love sports, but do we need pro football on Sundays, Mondays, Thursdays and Saturday? College football on odd weekdays? Baseball that lasts from Feb spring training until Nov? Hockey and basketball from Sep to June? Probably not.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

15. Agree. To my limited knowledge, there's no universal law that says.....

human life must run at a certain speed, other than what's required for our basic needs of food, water and shelter.

What seems to control our speed now is the fact that the faster our lives move, the more money the big corporations make off us each day.

I feel we have been breaking the speed limits of Mother Nature for far too long.....

[DeminPennswoods]

16. Yeah, I think there is truth

in your observation.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

13. There's a milk truck that makes a few stops in my neighborhood (not at my door).

I sealed the outer and inner doors to my milk chute years ago. I may have to re-think that. It would still be a good insulated place to leave milk

I also sealed the coal chute door years ago. I never want to unseal that thing - coal furnaces were dirty stinky, and too much work.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

14. Thanks. There's still milk and ice cream deliveries here...

in Derby City, although comparatively expensive even matched with the corner quick-stop. But as you say, many will find it attractive now. Especially since it's a chilled product, immediate container decontamination will be required. My, how our lifestyle has changed!

Natural gas coming to our little farm town I was raised was quite a blessing, although many didn't use it for a long time because TVA electricity was so cheap. My Dad still burned a wood stove for heat until long after I left home in '65. That's all we had for heat for my entire youth, but Dad worked in sawmills so slab wood was almost free.

Lots of good memories!..........

[DeminPennswoods]

17. The coal shute in our house

was replaced by block gas, but I can remember it being a big black iron door into the back basement. The coal was long gone, though. One of my dad's uncles delivered coal and ice back in the day. My mom used to tell me about the cream rising to the top of the milk bottle and freezing there in cold weather. I think she and her siblings always tried to get at it before their mom did.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

18. I remember the milk having cream on top, when we had it delivered when we lived in England.

Here in the states, I only remember homogenized milk, never the old separating stuff. We didn't make much of the cream, it was just another step before using the milk - shake well.

[DeminPennswoods]

19. The morning exercise show

like Jack LaLane appearing everyday for jumping jacks and the like. Since a lot of sitting at home not doing much.