re: Lake Charles "Postpones" Decades Old Festival

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This makes sense in terms of timing per my memory.

It was already dead when the name controversy started up

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na he is right.

they started doing a coupe things that killed it

1) the races stopped. it was getting more expensive to get the race boats to come because the lake is hard on the boats but this hurt big big time

2) they started making the area along the seawall vip only. this hurt boat traffic big time.

3) the cops went crazy with the ticketing. some of that needed to happen as it had gotten out of hand but as usual it swung way too far one way

most of the non trashy folks did the boat thing. once that became a pain in the arse and the races went away, the festival as it was...was over.

the other mistake they made was never evolving the festival. if they would have started trying to get people into the downtown bars, restaurants and had tons of live music etc in that...maybe could have made it

after it stopped being about the lake and boating festival...it became a haven for culture and white trash to go and ended as crime ridden shite hole during the two weeks. stopped attracting good music too because of this.

i havent been in 2 decades as it became not my scene quickly after HS.