Why does the issue of not bringing back the drive-in theater not seem to be as common as the issue of "restoring our beaches?" For many years the Wakanda baseball fields were used but those fields have been added to, in addition a multi-million dollar waterpark was created.
But seemingly no vocal sentimentality on the absence of the drive-in theater.
Are there other drive-in theaters that pulled people away from Menomonie? Should the disappearance of the theater also be simply blamed on "the lake?"
Wouldn't the combination of wireless technology and sitting in a climate-controlled automobile (with high-budget sound system inside--we know these exist) be a better way to further isolate people into their own personalized movie experience, becoming something that is even better than having to make a short walk into a standard theater and sit in a room full of strangers?
The reality is that anyone with a net worth of a million dollars could easily re-create the drive-in theater experience and be very successful at it. It likely wouldn't return a massive amount of money on the "investment." Some of the kids (full adults, in actuality) in Menomonie that have inherited their net worth would never be willing to part with it. (they might end up having kids that would have to work for a living.) The drive-in of modern style would at best be created as someone's private playground surrounded by acres of private land if it was to ever happen at all.
Does that compare to "the lake?"
Maybe.
What experience do people expect?
What kind of infrastructure is there to meet the expectations? (In Menomonie, "lake" infrastructure is very outdated, worn, and really stuck in the mid-'60's with some mid-'80's spruce-ups.)
What is the most user-benefit infrastructure that would make "the lake" usable? (hint: it is not the green algae.)
If the people of higher net worth won't pay for the benefit of all of us, how much would the rest of us need to pool to make the same "lake for everyone" bill?
Maybe we will never find out?
Maybe the now over $1,000,000 dredging money dumped into the "lake," businesses and people in the city limits of Menomonie will question how they are being nickel and dime billed for it?
If anyone ever remembers it.
Or notices no effect.
Or are willing to wait out the 20 year projects (17 left on northern Wolske Bay) life expectancy and then make a statement.
Or cares.
Maybe we should go back to the dream world of the post World War 2 years and return to a better living through chemicals on the lawns.
We wouldn't want weeds in our lake., would we?
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