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Beale Street cover charge started this past weekend
Posted on 6/14/16 at 9:04 am
Posted on 6/14/16 at 9:04 am
Fox 13 Memphis
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First Saturday with Beale Street cover charge "better than expected"
Many business owners were apprehensive when city leaders first announced a Saturday night cover charge would be established for patrons to gain access to Beale Street.
But after the first weekend where the plan was put into action, some business owners are optimistic. ...
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Posted on 6/14/16 at 9:06 am to chinese58
What a dump
Posted on 6/14/16 at 9:06 am to chinese58
Coming soon to a Bourbon Street, near you.
This post was edited on 6/14/16 at 9:07 am
Posted on 6/14/16 at 9:06 am to chinese58
I was there last week...just in time 
Paying cover to get on Beale and then pay another cover at Silky's is too much. If I still lived there, I would be spending wayyyy more time on Madison.
Paying cover to get on Beale and then pay another cover at Silky's is too much. If I still lived there, I would be spending wayyyy more time on Madison.
Posted on 6/14/16 at 9:06 am to chinese58
Seems wrong to charge a cover to access a public street... but I get what they are going for.
Posted on 6/14/16 at 9:07 am to chinese58
Cover charge to walk down a public street? I'll pass on that
Posted on 6/14/16 at 9:08 am to chinese58
Beale Street is overrated and it is in Memphis. No thanks.
Posted on 6/14/16 at 9:10 am to 12
This is basically gentrification...of a public street.
Beale gets rough late at night with a ton of people just standing around the street.
If the cover charge replaces the charge at Silky's then I'm all for it.
Beale gets rough late at night with a ton of people just standing around the street.
If the cover charge replaces the charge at Silky's then I'm all for it.
Posted on 6/14/16 at 9:10 am to chinese58
could this fix the French quarter or would it just spread the trash out to other sections of the city?
Posted on 6/14/16 at 9:12 am to chinese58
What are they charging? Briefly skimmed through article and didn't see it
Posted on 6/14/16 at 9:12 am to CadesCove
quote:
Coming soon to a Bourbon Street, near you.
Was wondering if that has been included in all of the crime discussions about Bourbon.
Posted on 6/14/16 at 9:15 am to Nado Jenkins83
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could this fix the French quarter or would it just spread the trash out to other sections of the city?
how on earth are they going to block off the entire French Quarter to charge a cover? Bourbon alone would be impossible. Beale is about a third the size of Bourbon if that.
Posted on 6/14/16 at 9:16 am to CadesCove
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Coming soon to a Bourbon Street, near you.
Nope. You have to understand that logistically this could never happen on Bourbon or the French Quarter in general. There are way too many streets that intersect Bourbon and then you have the issue of 3 or 4 hotels who have access to Bourbon.
Bourbon's only hope is continued beefed up security and continuing to gentrify the areas immediately around the quarter, which is happening except for one area house project I believe.
Posted on 6/14/16 at 9:17 am to lynxcat
quote:
This is basically gentrification...of a public street.
Beale gets rough late at night with a ton of people just standing around the street.
If the cover charge replaces the charge at Silky's then I'm all for it.
My understanding is it is a $10 cover to get on the street, then you get $7 in credit to use at an establishment.
Something had to be done. If the goal is to get the people away from Beale who were causing trouble and just loitering in the street, this is a good way.
Posted on 6/14/16 at 9:21 am to Larry
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Something had to be done. If the goal is to get the people away from Beale who were causing trouble and just loitering in the street, this is a good way.
RIP Overton Square. They gotta go somewhere.
Posted on 6/14/16 at 9:24 am to LSUBoo
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Seems wrong to charge a cover to access a public street...
In other settings, I think this is called a "toll."
Posted on 6/14/16 at 9:27 am to ForeverLSU02
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What are they charging? Briefly skimmed through article and didn't see it
Because of violence on Beale street and overcrowding. People will clog up people street and not spend a dime and those are the people usually causing the violence on the weekends.
Posted on 6/14/16 at 9:28 am to Hogwall Jackson
I asked what are they charging, not why
Posted on 6/14/16 at 9:29 am to chinese58
What happened the last time they did this?
I recall either in summer 14 or 15 they did the same thing. I remember because I was there the first or second week they did it and I think there was a thread on here about it.
I recall either in summer 14 or 15 they did the same thing. I remember because I was there the first or second week they did it and I think there was a thread on here about it.
Posted on 6/14/16 at 9:29 am to ForeverLSU02
Oh.
$10 and then they give you a $7 voucher to use that night at any beale street business.
$10 and then they give you a $7 voucher to use that night at any beale street business.
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