July 12, 20223 yr I will drive down to about 8th and Rio Grande and park and walk to J Carver's for dinner. Rio Grande is about as far east on 6th I will go.
July 12, 20223 yr 4 hours ago, Longboard Horn said: Whenever I'm in Austin I stick to the drag and Elysium. nothing says austin like coco's and chipotle...?
July 12, 20223 yr 2 hours ago, irishtexan said: You can't drink on the street. Not sure what you mean by "no hanging out, in or out of the bar/venue"? No hanging out in the venue? The streets have been closed Thursday through Saturday night as long as I started going there in the mid-90s. Opening the streets with that many drunks would be terribly unsafe. I don't see any realistic way to enforce a "no loitering" there. It's like Bourbon Street. People just wander from bar to bar. Maybe they should install entry/exit points with metal detectors and make it a "no gun" zone. Obviously increased police presence and more cameras would be helpful in allowing police to intervene in fights much quicker. Otherwise, not sure what you can do. I think what he means is, in our day, what we called "parking lot pimping", named after the Jay-Z song in the 90's or something like that. Essentially, being a part of the "scene" in order to see-and-be-seen and pick up women or socialize (which then leads to conflicts and fights sometimes, etc.) while being adjacent and tangential to bars and restaurants and occasions, but not having to actually participate and spend money. This means that those who want to go and have a good time and engage with the bars and restaurants and other like-minded folks are outnumbered by those without any financial skin in the game and so they eventually move on to socialize elsewhere (4th, 5th, W. 6th, Rainey, East 6th., wherever). All that to say, there are definitely problematic ways to paint the fall of 6th street with a broad brush that some of you are close to doing with social and racial implications.
July 13, 20223 yr People who want to have a good time won't come to a slaughterhouse, and we've got entirely too many troublemakers here... Too many uhh, 40 year old adolescents, felons, power drinkers, and trustees of modern chemistry.
July 13, 20223 yr People who want to have a good time won't come to a slaughterhouse, and we've got entirely too many troublemakers here... Too many uhh, 40 year old adolescents, felons, power drinkers, and trustees of modern chemistry.Soooo?Be nice?
July 13, 20223 yr Back in the 80s, I'd be the first one on the dance floor at 6th Street Station. Chicks would immediately join me. I had my pick of the litter. Steel Shank was winning again... ...even back then.
July 13, 20223 yr People used to go to 6th to go to the bars. Now people go to 6th just to hang out on the street and cause trouble. I'd be surprised as shit of even half of the people in the video spent a dime in any 6th street bar/club/restaurant that night. I said it before. Fence off the whole area, charge $20 admission which is then used to buy drinks/dinner at a bar/restaurant on 6th. That would solve most of the issues on 6th street.Has to be a better way. No way I am Paying a $20 “cover charge” to go in to a fenced in area to have dinner or for that matter have a few beers with friends.
July 13, 20223 yr Author Surly has a "6th Street Journal" for financial matters (wall street journal for those of you who are drunk). Can this be changed? Not to "commerce street journal" please, how about "$3.50 Journal"?
July 13, 20223 yr 8 hours ago, markstanco said: Has to be a better way. No way I am Paying a $20 “cover charge” to go in to a fenced in area to have dinner or for that matter have a few beers with friends. that full $20 is applied to your dinner, or drinks. you're not paying for nothing, you're just pre-paying $20 on your bill. assholes who have no business on 6th will not pay $20 every weekend just to loiter on 6th.
July 13, 20223 yr 8 hours ago, markstanco said: Has to be a better way. No way I am Paying a $20 “cover charge” to go in to a fenced in area to have dinner or for that matter have a few beers with friends. It's real...in Austin...2022.
July 13, 20223 yr 6th St. became shitty and dangerous when you were about 27 years old, regardless of what year that was. It's the same rule of Austin being "not what it used to be", which always happens when you turn 35 whether that was in the 1970's or the 2020's or anytime in between.
July 13, 20223 yr I'm trying to think of the amount of money it would take for me to hang out on dirty 6th for a single night. Probably in the $250k range.
July 13, 20223 yr 15 minutes ago, Your Mom said: 6th St. became shitty and dangerous when you were about 27 years old, regardless of what year that was. It's the same rule of Austin being "not what it used to be", which always happens when you turn 35 whether that was in the 1970's or the 2020's or anytime in between.
July 13, 20223 yr Just blast Polka music over speakers in the streetGreat, then we’ll be awash in Czechs.
July 13, 20223 yr 5 hours ago, StruggleBus said: I'm trying to think of the amount of money it would take for me to hang out on dirty 6th for a single night. Probably in the $250k range. I’d do it for a few hundred with drinks and dinner. Eat at Parkside go have some drinks at a few different bars. Not really that hard and it wouldn’t feel that much different than any tourist area. Some of y’all really overestimate how bad dirty 6th is.
July 13, 20223 yr Author 7 hours ago, crash_davis said: that full $20 is applied to your dinner, or drinks. you're not paying for nothing, you're just pre-paying $20 on your bill. assholes who have no business on 6th will not pay $20 every weekend just to loiter on 6th. to ensure public safety, how about groups are lead into the "fun zone" of 6th in shackles, resembling a chain gang but in normal street attire (pimp/hooker)? Then if they misbehave, apprehension would be quick and efficient. If they behave, they can be let out of the zone, but not all at once, in controlled and carefully supervised groups. This would work and be a win win for everyone.
July 13, 20223 yr On 7/12/2022 at 3:10 PM, CooterBrown said: Tell me you own leather pants without telling me you own leather pants. Assless chaps or go home, bruh.
July 14, 20223 yr On 7/11/2022 at 1:23 PM, Make em eat Taco Bell said: was decent in the 80s and 90s, not at this level of jungle at that time, no way. Did you watch the video? wink, wink. Gotcha!
July 14, 20223 yr 16 hours ago, MissingInAction said: Assless chaps or go home, bruh. All chaps are assless, by definition.
July 14, 20223 yr 37 minutes ago, Your Mom said: All chaps are assless, by definition. Thatsthejoke.jpg
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