Anybody camp out to buy concert tickets before the internet was a thing?

When I was in high school, I skipped school and camped out with friends for about 3 days in line at the Birmingham Civic Center to get tickets for the Police Synchronicity tour. I bought the maximum number allowed (10 I think) and sold 9 of them for about $5 over asking price. The $45 in profit seemed like a lot of money to me at the time, which is about how much I made for busing tables at a restaurant on the weekends.

The ticket office was right outside the concert hall. The most interesting evening was the night a Loverboy concert was taking place while we were in line. Seeing people messed up in concerts isn't uncommon, but they don't hold a candle to those that are so messed up that they get kicked out of the event.

Pretty dumb story, but I still tell it today because it was so funny at the time. The line went down a ramp with a brick wall on either side, which offered a little protection from the wind at night. The morning the tickets went on sale, there were hundreds of people in line that wrapped down to the lower portion of the venue. I remember somebody had a dog that took a big dump at the lower level. Since we were all pretty bored by then, we all lined up along the wall and if someone at the lower level was walking anywhere near the dog shite, we would all cheer very loudly and wave our arms trying to get their attention. They would generally look up trying to figure out what was going on and wouldn't see the dog shite in their path. If they stepped in it, we would all cheer even louder. If they missed it, we would all in unison yell, "awww shite". Yeah, it was dumb, but pretty funny at the time. Overall it was a pretty fun experience and I met a lot of cool people.