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Posted on 12/20/18 at 2:43 pm to BRIllini07
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“We need more down here than just places to eat and drink
No kidding...when I'm on vacation I always say...enough of the bars and local restaurants....where can I get some solid staples?!?
Posted on 12/20/18 at 2:43 pm to upgrayedd
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turn it into a small library
This is Baton Rouge - we don't do small libraries.
Posted on 12/20/18 at 2:44 pm to facher08
They should just magically move happys to the Perkins area and just let DT BR wither away
Posted on 12/20/18 at 2:44 pm to upgrayedd
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Eh, it seems to predate that little tiff
The first cracks on 3rd Street were when the Lava Cantina idiots bought Roux House and Lucy's with the promise of turning them into Lava Cantina Downtown. But, rather than turn it into a legit music venue, they kept the two businesses separate and only made the tiny Lucy's portion over into being Lava Cantina. Since it couldn't hold bands, it was just a tiny, cramped Mexican Restaurant serving mediocre, over-priced food with loud club music playing at night. They let the Roux House basically go to shite next door, but kept closing it and reopening it with no rhyme or reason.
Posted on 12/20/18 at 2:44 pm to upgrayedd
That's not the best pic of her. Shes legit pretty / sexy.
Posted on 12/20/18 at 2:46 pm to upgrayedd
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What caused it to go south? It was the place to be 10 years ago and the area has only improved since
The crowds imo. The place is dead during the week and the crowd is a mix of Central, Zachary, Baker, and NBR on the weekends. There isnt anything really bringing someone like me or the college person down there.
Food. I can get equally as shitty pizza or better pizza anywhere else in the city than going to Schlitz. Besides the view and atmosphere, I can get better sushi than going to Tsunami. Tbh, that restaurant is the only thing bringing me there now. Stroubes is meh along with Little Village.
Bars. Nothing jumps out as being a place I go out of my way to go to. Happys is just a place to get terrible beer and look at girls in skirts who may or may not steal from you. Driftwood is good but usually dead. The other bars arent honestly worth mentioning.
The only time downtown really gets mentioned as a place to go out is when a drunk idiot friend of mine has a brain fart and blurts it out
Posted on 12/20/18 at 2:47 pm to SirWinston
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That's not the best pic of her. Shes legit pretty / sexy.
Most of the other pictures were her and multiple friends or her and her kid which is why I chose the one I did. I'd def hit it.
Posted on 12/20/18 at 2:49 pm to Deactived
I remember the LP and NBR folks starting to take over around 2008ish but didn't know if that was still the norm down there. I really don't go downtown much anymore so I'm not sure what the after hours scene is like these days. Any decent bars down there anymore?
Posted on 12/20/18 at 2:50 pm to Deactived
The only reason it ever made sense to go downtown was to bar hop. Happy's and B&T's aren't the best cover-band bars, Bengal Taproom isn't the best beer bar, City Bar isn't the best night club, there are better places to play pool than Kingfish, Driftwood isn't the best cocktail lounge, etc, but the fact that one could start at one end of the street with a group and migrate from place to place easily to get the kind of experience you want made it attractive. By being able to have all kinds of different bars in the same night without driving different places and be able to pick up a girl at one bar and bring her to chill on the patio at another bar was awesome.
Enforcing open-container completely wrecked that. What's the point of having a bunch of bars next to each other if you can't hop between them? How can you hop between them if you can't carry your drink between them?
Enforcing open-container completely wrecked that. What's the point of having a bunch of bars next to each other if you can't hop between them? How can you hop between them if you can't carry your drink between them?
This post was edited on 12/20/18 at 2:54 pm
Posted on 12/20/18 at 2:52 pm to SirWinston
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Delgado was publicly pro Trump for a while too which probably didn't help his reputation with a large segment of BR.
Delgado has the worst political instincts of anyone I've ever met. He called the St. George organizers terrorists, tried to pander to NBR with some economic development BS, went full bore MAGA to try to court the Trump vote, and ended up being hated by everyone because he's such a slimeball
Posted on 12/20/18 at 2:54 pm to upgrayedd
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What caused it to go south? It was the place to be 10 years ago and the area has only improved since
My opinion
(1) It's still an island. Residential announcements have slowed to a halt since Kip left office, it's only previously announced concepts that are finishing up. So, still in total, only a few thousand people live in Spanish Town, Beauregard Town, or the CBD.
From downtown, it's still low income or vacant land within a few mile radius of downtown in every direction until you hit the gentrified part of mid-city to the East, LSU to the South, or Zachary to the North. Bridging a few of these gaps (except the North, which will never happen) can do wonders I think.
(2) Enforcement of open container laws. Now, there is nothing to "going out downtown" it's just more of a hassle without any of the benefit.
(3) Enforcement of parking lots. As mentioned, they are now booting cars in the lots that were mostly "free" on nights and weekends during the hayday of downtown.
(4) The bars and restaurants themselves, they can't compete outright with their competition around town. Happy's can stand on its own, so it does well.
Posted on 12/20/18 at 2:54 pm to kingbob
I dont buy the open container thing.
I never once went downtown because oh I can walk to another bar with my beer. Oh we are leaving? Well, finish your damn beer.
The crowds killed downtown. I dont want to hangout with those people. Same reason I dont go to Bogies, or Texas Club, or Club Shenanigans. There isnt a bar downtown whos pros outweigh the negative of dealing with downtown.
I never once went downtown because oh I can walk to another bar with my beer. Oh we are leaving? Well, finish your damn beer.
The crowds killed downtown. I dont want to hangout with those people. Same reason I dont go to Bogies, or Texas Club, or Club Shenanigans. There isnt a bar downtown whos pros outweigh the negative of dealing with downtown.
Posted on 12/20/18 at 2:57 pm to Deactived
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Bogies
You shut your whore mouth.
ETA: I do agree with you though. Open container has little to do with it. Hell most downtown areas around the country have open container laws. It’s the crowds and shittiness of the actual bars that ruined downtown.
This post was edited on 12/20/18 at 3:00 pm
Posted on 12/20/18 at 2:58 pm to Deactived
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I dont want to hangout with those people. Same reason I dont go to Bogies, or Texas Club, or Club Shenanigans.
Where do you go that doesn't have these people? The only places I've been that are consistently lacking those types are Radio Bar and the Bulldog.
Posted on 12/20/18 at 2:58 pm to Deactived
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dont buy the open container thing. I never once went downtown because oh I can walk to another bar with my beer. Oh we are leaving? Well, finish your damn beer.
I don’t think anyone is saying it’s a singular reason for it, but it certainly doesn’t help. Just because you didn’t like to walk around with it doesn’t mean other people don’t
A huge boast to the weekend business was Live after 5 and being able to get a big arse beer from happys and walk it down to the show and then get the night started. That’s really what they shut down which hindered live after 5s success greatly
Again it’s just a factor, it’s not THE factor
Posted on 12/20/18 at 3:00 pm to kingbob
My most frequented places are Bulldog, Olive, Duvics, Ivars(most downtown like bar).
Radio Bar sucks
Radio Bar sucks
This post was edited on 12/20/18 at 3:01 pm
Posted on 12/20/18 at 3:01 pm to Deactived
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The crowds killed downtown.
Did it turn ghetto at night?
Posted on 12/20/18 at 3:02 pm to fallguy_1978
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Did it turn ghetto at night?
When 1913 was still open it got pretty dark after midnight.
Posted on 12/20/18 at 3:02 pm to fallguy_1978
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Did it turn ghetto at night?
I mean when 1913 and city bar got going on Saturday nights there were more people outside the bar “hanging out” than inside. That whole side of the road was NBR
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