Gibson City drive-in still shuttered due to COVID-19 – The Pantagraph

We are more or less a restaurant that sells food and shows you a movie, he said. If we can eliminate the movie part, where there is no need for bathrooms, and nobody is coming to the lot to watch a movie, we are hoping to be able to open for take-out, just to get some money coming in until we can actually open.

More than 500 cars can fit into the facility, which features two screens. Normally at this time of the year, a dozen people would be employed at the drive-in. As it stands, only three full-time staff Ben, Will and an office manager are working.

Several schools inquired about holding some kind of modified graduation services there. But again, the state said no.

And they have tried to get the governors ear, but those attempts have not been successful, either.

Gibson City's Harvest Moon Drive-In owner Mike Harroun has change and a plastic bag for a customer as a God Bless America neon sign hangs on the little pay station building to the drive-in June 19, 2008.

We have sent numerous e-mails and we have even had a couple of state representatives put our letter directly in front of the governor, but we have been told that they will not open drive-ins now, Ben Harroun said. They could potentially look at it a little later this month, is all.

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