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re: Beale Street cover charge started this past weekend
Posted on 6/14/16 at 9:31 am to Hogwall Jackson
Posted on 6/14/16 at 9:31 am to Hogwall Jackson
quote:Well that's not that bad
$10 and then they give you a $7 voucher to use that night at any beale street business.
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Posted on 6/14/16 at 9:32 am to Hogwall Jackson
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$10 and then they give you a $7 voucher to use that night at any beale street business.
This. It's just $3.00 to keep the people out that shouldn't be there in the first place, as all they want to do is cause trouble. Well worth it, IMO.
Posted on 6/14/16 at 9:33 am to SSpaniel
yea i dont think it's a terrible idea. The usual riff raff shows up there just looking for trouble.
Posted on 6/14/16 at 9:34 am to SSpaniel
quote:I agree. I wouldn't be opposed to NOLA implementing something like this for Bourbon. How would they handle this with the residents in the area?
This. It's just $3.00 to keep the people out that shouldn't be there in the first place, as all they want to do is cause trouble. Well worth it, IMO.
Posted on 6/14/16 at 9:40 am to ForeverLSU02
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I wouldn't be opposed to NOLA implementing something like this for Bourbon.
dude it's impossible. Bourbon is much bigger and has more points of entrance. Not to mention unlike Beale, Bourbon has numerous hotels and residences.
Bourbon needs more cops period.
This post was edited on 6/14/16 at 9:43 am
Posted on 6/14/16 at 9:42 am to REG861
Beale is what....3, maybe 4 blocks? 
Posted on 6/14/16 at 9:42 am to REG861
quote:
yea i dont think it's a terrible idea. The usual riff raff shows up there just looking for trouble.
It's why I love paying cover charges in bars. Keeps out a lot of trash.
I vowed i'd never go to Beale after a realy bad experience a few years ago, but I may give it another shot. The short version is about 8 of us on a bachelor party left Silky's after midnight and were followed by some aggressive guys wearing tank tops and chains. They were yelling at us for how we were dressed, I assume. Sorry my polo shirt and chinos offended you.
Posted on 6/14/16 at 9:43 am to REG861
The FQ is many blocks. Beale St is basically 5% of what the FQ is. They could never pull off a cover charge there
Posted on 6/14/16 at 9:43 am to REG861
quote:Yeah, I thought about that after posting. It would be close to impossible. Still sounded nice though
dude it's impossible. Bourbon is much bigger and has more points of entrance. Not to mention unlike Beale, Bourbon has numerous hotels and residences.
Posted on 6/14/16 at 9:47 am to lynxcat
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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.
I don't know about everyone, but some places are offering no cover and/or a free beer if you use your "Beale Bucks" there. I read somewhere that this may have come about again because they recently got shot down on the street sweeps they would do at like 3 a.m., where you had to be inside somewhere or leave.
Posted on 6/14/16 at 9:52 am to CadesCove
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RIP Overton Square. They gotta go somewhere.
Overton Square is far enough away that I don't think it will be an issue.
Main St. downtown on the other hand could have problems.
Posted on 6/14/16 at 9:52 am to chinese58
Do the guys doing gymnastics for tips have to pay?
Posted on 6/14/16 at 9:54 am to Queen
Do they not have the ID checkpoints on the ends of Beale anymore? YOu'd think they would have been good for screening for guns and stuff.
Posted on 6/14/16 at 9:56 am to Hoops
Beale has always cracked me up with the racial segregation.
If you just saw who was on the street loitering, you'd think there are only black people in the establishments.
But pick any bar and its 99% white people inside.
If you just saw who was on the street loitering, you'd think there are only black people in the establishments.
But pick any bar and its 99% white people inside.
Posted on 6/14/16 at 9:56 am to chinese58
does this mean the kids doing backflips in the street won't be there?
Posted on 6/14/16 at 9:56 am to REG861
quote:
Do they not have the ID checkpoints on the ends of Beale anymore? YOu'd think they would have been good for screening for guns and stuff.
They do, but guns aren't really the issue. Its mobs of loiterers causing issues and scaring away tourists from even going to Beale.
I am very curious where the people will go though.
Posted on 6/14/16 at 9:59 am to chinese58
It keeps the poors out, it may be a good idea for Bourbon and Frenchmen.
Posted on 6/14/16 at 10:01 am to TheCaterpillar
quote:
I am very curious where the people will go though.
They should open the park, where the music festival is held, at night. Give them somewhere to go discuss how work was that week.
Posted on 6/14/16 at 10:01 am to Napoleon
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It keeps the poors out, it may be a good idea for Bourbon and Frenchmen.
They could do it on Frenchmen MAYBE, but there are still residents there.
Absolutely impossible for the rest of the French Quarter. Too big, too many access points, too many hotels, too many residents.
Posted on 6/14/16 at 10:02 am to chinese58
A couple of observations on this:
1. Just wait until someone figures out how to counterfeit the "Beale Bucks" $7 vouchers. Because that is going to happen soon.
2. They tried this cover charge thing up in Shreveport several years ago with the public area by the bridge and it got shot down because "racism". I would expect someone to make the claim this is aimed at minorities in about five minutes.
3. NOPD kept the FQ under control the entire time I was growing up with one simple tactic. Police brutality. It is a fact that there were a couple of rules down there when I was younger. First and foremost was that you do what the NOPD says right now or you get your arse kicked. Next was that if you see a fight start, get away from it because the NOPD is coming in swinging and arresting anyone in the area (which kept two drunks fighting from turning into a crowd brawl). Don't resist arrest because most of the time if you did get grabbed up, they generally drove you a couple of blocks away and kicked you out of the car with no arrest. And lastly, don't ever no matter what pull on a police horses tail (as evidenced by the guy I saw get pulled down the street and around a corner by his hair by a NOPD horse guy). But civil rights, cell phones and body cams have ruined that. So, in exchange for a gentler-kinder NOPD, the FQ is now run by thugs and murders occur regularly. So there is that.
1. Just wait until someone figures out how to counterfeit the "Beale Bucks" $7 vouchers. Because that is going to happen soon.
2. They tried this cover charge thing up in Shreveport several years ago with the public area by the bridge and it got shot down because "racism". I would expect someone to make the claim this is aimed at minorities in about five minutes.
3. NOPD kept the FQ under control the entire time I was growing up with one simple tactic. Police brutality. It is a fact that there were a couple of rules down there when I was younger. First and foremost was that you do what the NOPD says right now or you get your arse kicked. Next was that if you see a fight start, get away from it because the NOPD is coming in swinging and arresting anyone in the area (which kept two drunks fighting from turning into a crowd brawl). Don't resist arrest because most of the time if you did get grabbed up, they generally drove you a couple of blocks away and kicked you out of the car with no arrest. And lastly, don't ever no matter what pull on a police horses tail (as evidenced by the guy I saw get pulled down the street and around a corner by his hair by a NOPD horse guy). But civil rights, cell phones and body cams have ruined that. So, in exchange for a gentler-kinder NOPD, the FQ is now run by thugs and murders occur regularly. So there is that.
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