bigscoop
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You know, I'm tiered of hearing the various councils complaining and voicing their concerns over the loss of beach revenues. First, let me say this wouldn't be the case if these people weren't totally blind. All any of them has to do is to spend each day on their beaches to learn where the problems lay. Case in point:
Over the past three days, and on each of these days, a friend and I watched higher clientele leave the beach due to the carload of “foul mouthed hanging pants gang bangers” that pulled in beside them. So here we go, loud and obnoxious foul mouths and their pants hanging below their butts. Here's a tip for you.....even schools have dress codes preventing this attire and if you had any spine at all you'd have one too.
On Wednesday I spoke with a nice older couple who had been coming to NSB every year for the past 16 years, but this year will be their last due to the “noticeable change” of beach crowd. On Thursday I ran into another couple who voiced the same notion/opinion/decision. Who will eventually come take their place on this beach with a noticeably changing beach culture?
And here's another bone I want to pick.......”what have you really done to draw the right crowd to your beach?” Thirty years I've been coming here and nothing much has changed. Pretty much the same old attractions now as back then. If I see one more colorless beach vendor wagon I'm going to puke! The color and atmosphere at 27[SUP]th[/SUP] street and Flagler ave. appear as if they've been painted for the middle of a cemetery courtyard. They are both dull and drab. Where is the color? Where is the atmosphere? What makes NSB any different then all the other beach atmospheres? Apparently nothing other then the fact that you can drive on the beach. But is this really good enough?
And look, I appreciate the whole turtle thing as much as the next guy, but who was the genius who decided that you needed to blackout the entire beach, including the parking lots, at night? Now this certainly offers your visitors a sense of added security, “Come stay with us and take the entire family on enjoyable night time stroll along our pitch black beaches!” Seriously? Sounds like the perfect family atmosphere to me, especially after they see those gang-banger types on the beach during the day.
“No kids, I think we'd all be much safer inside tonight.” Seriously?
You know, NSB is slowly losing the beach-side battle and you wonder why? Well, toss out all the reports and data and just take a good hard look around. Could be you might just find a few answers to the growing problem. Other then the beach itself, why would anyone want to come to spend their money here, bring their families here? The beach culture is slowly changing right before your very eyes so take off those blinders and start observing those issues first hand. Become that invested vacationer, tourist, time share owner, etc.
PS: I was on the beach just south of Flagler ave. on Tuesday afternoon and I got back in my vehicle and moved to another location just for the reason already mentioned earlier in this text.
Over the past three days, and on each of these days, a friend and I watched higher clientele leave the beach due to the carload of “foul mouthed hanging pants gang bangers” that pulled in beside them. So here we go, loud and obnoxious foul mouths and their pants hanging below their butts. Here's a tip for you.....even schools have dress codes preventing this attire and if you had any spine at all you'd have one too.
On Wednesday I spoke with a nice older couple who had been coming to NSB every year for the past 16 years, but this year will be their last due to the “noticeable change” of beach crowd. On Thursday I ran into another couple who voiced the same notion/opinion/decision. Who will eventually come take their place on this beach with a noticeably changing beach culture?
And here's another bone I want to pick.......”what have you really done to draw the right crowd to your beach?” Thirty years I've been coming here and nothing much has changed. Pretty much the same old attractions now as back then. If I see one more colorless beach vendor wagon I'm going to puke! The color and atmosphere at 27[SUP]th[/SUP] street and Flagler ave. appear as if they've been painted for the middle of a cemetery courtyard. They are both dull and drab. Where is the color? Where is the atmosphere? What makes NSB any different then all the other beach atmospheres? Apparently nothing other then the fact that you can drive on the beach. But is this really good enough?
And look, I appreciate the whole turtle thing as much as the next guy, but who was the genius who decided that you needed to blackout the entire beach, including the parking lots, at night? Now this certainly offers your visitors a sense of added security, “Come stay with us and take the entire family on enjoyable night time stroll along our pitch black beaches!” Seriously? Sounds like the perfect family atmosphere to me, especially after they see those gang-banger types on the beach during the day.
“No kids, I think we'd all be much safer inside tonight.” Seriously?
You know, NSB is slowly losing the beach-side battle and you wonder why? Well, toss out all the reports and data and just take a good hard look around. Could be you might just find a few answers to the growing problem. Other then the beach itself, why would anyone want to come to spend their money here, bring their families here? The beach culture is slowly changing right before your very eyes so take off those blinders and start observing those issues first hand. Become that invested vacationer, tourist, time share owner, etc.
PS: I was on the beach just south of Flagler ave. on Tuesday afternoon and I got back in my vehicle and moved to another location just for the reason already mentioned earlier in this text.
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