# Things We Lost in the Virus **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [May 28, 2020, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-lost-in-the-virus/854572 "2020-05-28T00:09:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2020, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-lost-in-the-virus/854572/21 "2020-07-16T01:56:12Z")
An e-mail I got about a month ago (some names and phone numbers redacted): > [@](#): > > I just got off a call from Bill Star, the owner of Honolulu Soaring for 50 years. The Covid situation has caused big fiscal problems and he reached out to me to help spread the words his business is shutting down. > > His first choice would be to sell the business. Would take someone with vision this Covid situation will end someday. If they keep the name the same, it comes with hangars and work hangers. You get grandfathered in and do not need to go to the end of the line. > > Second is to liquidate his fleet. > > 2 SGS2-32’s ( I have 1600 hours in these planes) > ASK 21 > L19 towplane with a brand new engine. > > IF you know anyone that might have an interest. > > xxx xxx xxxx > > [xxxx] ETA: Related AOPA article: > **[Hawaii DOT to force tenants to vacate Dillingham Airfield by 2021](https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2020/april/23/hawaii-dot-to-force-tenants-to-vacate-by-2021)** > > The Hawaii Department of Transportation announced it will terminate its lease with the U.S. Army and force tenants including flight schools and tour operators to vacate Dillingham Airfield on Oahu by 2021. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2020, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-lost-in-the-virus/854572/22 "2020-07-16T02:11:28Z")
[Maines](https://www.mainesfood.net/food-service/) has closed. It’s the entire chain but I noticed it because of their local store. The weird thing is this is the second time our local Maines has closed. It opened in 2015 and then closed in 2016. But it reopened in the same location in 2017. They didn’t even have to put up a new sign. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2020, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-lost-in-the-virus/854572/23 "2020-09-10T03:56:46Z")
Another local closing and it’s another video store; the Family Video store in North Chili. I guess I won’t have to deal with video store closings after this one; it’s the last video store in what I would consider to be a normal driving range (it’s about fifteen miles from where I live). With this closing there will effectively be no more video stores in my area of the world. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2020, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-lost-in-the-virus/854572/24 "2020-09-11T00:02:03Z")
I can’t imagine Cirque du Soleil won’t be able to make a comeback after venues can open and host crowds. Bankruptcy is almost surely a financial action regarding contracts that can’t be paid and the like. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2020, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-lost-in-the-virus/854572/25 "2020-09-15T00:31:47Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Another local closing and it’s another video store; the Family Video store in North Chili. I guess I won’t have to deal with video store closings after this one; it’s the last video store in what I would consider to be a normal driving range (it’s about fifteen miles from where I live). With this closing there will effectively be no more video stores in my area of the world. I stopped by today and found out this is more extreme than I was aware. Family Video is closing all of its video stores in New York. I don’t know if they’re closing all stores nationwide. ---
**Author:** ![brilliantnerd2050](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e9a140/32.png) [@brilliantnerd2050](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brilliantnerd2050)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2020, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-lost-in-the-virus/854572/26 "2020-10-12T18:02:18Z")
We have lost freedom ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2020, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-lost-in-the-virus/854572/27 "2020-10-18T01:59:57Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > I think the “salad bar” will not make a comeback. The supermarket salad bars are starting to come back around here and last month I went to a buffet restaurant with my parents on a visit to Lancaster County. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2020, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-lost-in-the-virus/854572/28 "2020-12-13T23:01:32Z")
I just read read that the [Roadside America](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadside_America) attraction in southeast Pennsylvania announced it was permanently closing in November (they have been temporarily closed since March). The exhibits are being sold off at an online auction in January. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2020, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-lost-in-the-virus/854572/29 "2020-12-14T03:45:12Z")
A couple of restaurants that we always went to and the worst of these was the best restaurant in Colorado Springs - [Coquette’s Bistro](http://coquettesbistro.com/) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2020, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-lost-in-the-virus/854572/30 "2020-12-17T05:08:44Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I just read read that the [Roadside America](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadside_America) attraction in southeast Pennsylvania announced it was permanently closing in November (they have been temporarily closed since March). The exhibits are being sold off at an online auction in January. Here’s a gallery of pictures from the exhibit to give an idea of what it’s like. Keep in mind this was all built by one person. > **[Roadside America / PA Dutch Gift House Auction](https://www.gotoauction.com/sales/view/252892.html?fbclid=IwAR0AsYiYXMQ14m7gvxqDrVGJ8qxPZbD6nuFzGD6qnBsoZhkNOfsp_6rAphQ#gal)** > > Items from four generations and seven decades of business operations at Roadside America and PA Dutch Gift Haus. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2020, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-lost-in-the-virus/854572/31 "2020-12-20T21:17:40Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > I think the “salad bar” will not make a comeback. Still going strong in Hawaii, albeit fewer in number. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2020, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-lost-in-the-virus/854572/32 "2020-12-26T03:47:45Z")
The Sky Gallery restaurant located at the old Cincinnati airport terminal. It resided inside the terminal where you could still see [WPA murals](https://livingnewdeal.org/projects/lunken-airport-murals-cincinnati-oh/) that were painted by William Harry Gothard commissioned in the late 30’s. The architecture is Art Deco with the interior nicely appointed… It was just a lovely piece of history to visit. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-we-lost-in-the-virus/854572.md?page=1)