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re: Is downtown BR going back to a ghost town?
Posted on 6/11/19 at 9:15 am to Tigeralum2008
Posted on 6/11/19 at 9:15 am to Tigeralum2008
quote:then your buddy is a retard.
My buddy owns one of the places on 3rd street. He told me a group of bars asked BRPD to enforce the open container laws so that trashies wouldn't walk into a bar carrying a drink they bought from somewhere else.
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Posted on 6/11/19 at 9:17 am to Breauxsif
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Does the fat arse, middle easterner, bouncer still open carry
Have not been to city bar in a long arse time so I cannot confirm his current status. The bouncer I was talking about was some 5'7" wangster who looked to weigh 160lbs dripping wet. Didn't see him much after that "incident"
City Bar used to be an incredible place for an early 30's guy
Posted on 6/11/19 at 9:17 am to Bulletproof Lover
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Live After Five is no longer a safe family event. The group homes drop off people to attend and the homeless are taking over. I've gone to my last one, all the ingredients for something terrible to happen have arrived.
Wait, the homeless are going to a free concert? No way?
Posted on 6/11/19 at 9:19 am to CarRamrod
quote:
then your buddy is a retard.
Retarded enough to own multiple drinking establishments throughout the city making a ton of money in the process.
Posted on 6/11/19 at 9:19 am to DeafJam73
quote:FIFY
Well Broome sucks EVERYTHING. So, it shouldn’t come as a surprise.
Posted on 6/11/19 at 9:22 am to The Pirate King
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The parking, traffic, and walking situation is another barrier.
I wouldn’t say it’s much worse than other comparable cities
This post was edited on 6/11/19 at 9:27 am
Posted on 6/11/19 at 9:23 am to Tigeralum2008
I don't really think that open container was that big of a deal to the people I know. It was nice to take my drink for the walk down 3rd street. I never tried to bring them into another bar though.
The decline of the scene is the sum of many factors to me. One of those factors is the decline of good live music in the area. When the area became less live bands and more acoustic acts, the crowds suffered. Bands are always the first thing cut for a bar who is loosing money.
The decline of the scene is the sum of many factors to me. One of those factors is the decline of good live music in the area. When the area became less live bands and more acoustic acts, the crowds suffered. Bands are always the first thing cut for a bar who is loosing money.
Posted on 6/11/19 at 9:24 am to stewie
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Not so subtle racism in this thread ... and people wonder why Louisiana is moving backwards.
Yeah everyone wishing a black former mayor would come back is a racist.
You're retarded.
Broome is the worst thing to happen to Baton Rouge in a very long time...and skin color has literally nothing to do with it.
Posted on 6/11/19 at 9:25 am to Tigeralum2008
quote:
My buddy owns one of the places on 3rd street. He told me a group of bars asked BRPD to enforce the open container laws so that trashies wouldn't walk into a bar carrying a drink they bought from somewhere else.
Again that doesn’t really add up since they make you throw away outside drinks before you get in
Posted on 6/11/19 at 9:26 am to crewdepoo
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The parking, traffic, and walking situation is another barrier.
You’re talking about BR right?
While this is true, it's usually not hard to find free street parking downtown at night because the meters aren't enforced after like 6:00pm.
Posted on 6/11/19 at 9:27 am to CarRamrod
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like the first week Broome's new Chief was in office he had officers down 3rd passing out open container tickets on weekend nights. Something Kip finally started allowing the night district some leniency on.
I was at Drafthouse the day that happened...everyone was freaking out
Posted on 6/11/19 at 9:28 am to Monday
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One of those factors is the decline of good live music in the area.
The Roux house hired pretty good bands and always seemed to draw the wedding after parties. Since they closed and that Repeal 33 gastropub concept apparently died, The Register is back to being the Roux House minus any people. I can't understand how that place is still hanging on.
Posted on 6/11/19 at 9:29 am to kingbob
You also have free parking all weekend.
Posted on 6/11/19 at 9:29 am to wildtigercat93
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Again that doesn’t really add up since they make you throw away outside drinks before you get in
Oh, I agree. Perhaps they didn't like people hanging outside their bars and not going inside as well.
Whatever the reason, the unintended consequence has been a precipitous decline in patrons.
Posted on 6/11/19 at 9:32 am to kingbob
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The parking, traffic, and walking situation is another barrier.
I don't understand this either. There is plenty of parking, traffic is no longer an issue when it is time to go out and I don't know what walking situation means.
Posted on 6/11/19 at 9:36 am to Adam4LSU
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Broome is the worst thing to happen to Baton Rouge in a very long time...and skin color has literally nothing to do with it.
This. Things were really looking up for BR for a while there. The plants and refineries were experiencing a renaissance of expansions, the hospitals were expanding, IBM was investing in the town, new tourism with riverboats, pageants and big competitions and conventions at the River Center. Then, 2016 happened. It started with Alton Sterling and the resulting protests, then the shooting of police officers the following summer, then the flood a few months later, then Broome gets elected right after the flood by campaigning as Kip 2.0 but aligning with a radical racist marxist in the general.
In 2015, BR looked to be a city on the rise. In 2017, it was a city in rapid tailspin.
Posted on 6/11/19 at 9:36 am to facher08
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I don't understand this either. There is plenty of parking, traffic is no longer an issue when it is time to go out and I don't know what walking situation means.
Lazy excuse if you ask me
Even if you cannot find free parking, the 3rd street garage charges a comparatively low fee to park at night.
You can cover all of the 3rd street attractions in less than 5 minutes of walking.
Posted on 6/11/19 at 9:40 am to Tigeralum2008
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Lazy excuse if you ask me Even if you cannot find free parking, the 3rd street garage charges a comparatively low fee to park at night. You can cover all of the 3rd street attractions in less than 5 minutes of walking.
Have you seen the sketchy mofos that walk downtown late at night?
You can call it a lazy excuse, but there’s just not a big enough draw to make the inconvenience worth it when you can roll up and park anywhere else in Baton Rouge.
Posted on 6/11/19 at 9:41 am to theantiquetiger
The entire premise of the open container law being enforced as to killing downtown is grossly exaggerated. Downtown was dying long before the new mayor came in to office.
It's always been dead Sunday to Thursday. The crowds on Friday and Saturday are a trashy mix of north br, Zachary, central, and Walker. Yea what a group to make up your only busy nights.
College kids have no reason to go downtown when they have bars set in stone as the go to places. Post college people have better places by perkins, the overpass, and college/govt. There is no reason to go downtown unless you live there.
Happys has improved drastically, but historically they were a mediocre bar at best
City bar is horrible for most people.
Punchers/whatever it's called is meh
B&T is terrible
Lucy's was terrible along with Lava
Hueys was meh
Schlitz is shitty pizza
The nice bars are hotel bars, blend
It's always been dead Sunday to Thursday. The crowds on Friday and Saturday are a trashy mix of north br, Zachary, central, and Walker. Yea what a group to make up your only busy nights.
College kids have no reason to go downtown when they have bars set in stone as the go to places. Post college people have better places by perkins, the overpass, and college/govt. There is no reason to go downtown unless you live there.
Happys has improved drastically, but historically they were a mediocre bar at best
City bar is horrible for most people.
Punchers/whatever it's called is meh
B&T is terrible
Lucy's was terrible along with Lava
Hueys was meh
Schlitz is shitty pizza
The nice bars are hotel bars, blend
Posted on 6/11/19 at 9:41 am to goofball
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It will be over soon.
"Over" as in cement shoes over or over as in BR down town ghosting?
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