NGC - What's a dollar worth?

[trippah]

Flying phennings - I just went on line to buy 3 tickets for a Boston Bruins game...to get close enough where the spoked B isn't a dot is @300.00 a ticket, so that 900 without fees or taxes, and about 200 a night at a hotel without fleas.  1K to go and watch a game with my wife and son...aaaaaarrrg.

[azguzzirep]

Ha!  That's what they'd have to pay me to go! AND  pay for my beer!

[fotoguzzi]

there is not a sports team on earth I would give that kind of money to see..

[troyhamilton]

i dont like crowds too much. i know where theres a Moto Guzzi i could buy for that kinda cash!

[Triple Jim]

As with everything, if people weren't willing to pay the asking price, the asking price would come down, in this case along with players' salaries.

Along the same lines, if no one would click on the links in email spam, it would end very quickly, and if no one would buy from telephone solicitors, there would be no more telephone soliciting.  (etc.)

[pebra]

Wow. -  $300 for an ordinary seat, and not on the black market? And not a semi final or something extraordinary?
That's way more than I would have imagined.......

[cloudbase]

Major league sports have priced themselves out of any desire for me to go to a game.  Astros, Texans, Rockets-no way.  Fortunately, there is a AA baseball team in Sugar Land.  Great seats for $15, and a nice cozy stadium.  They don't bend you over on concession prices, either.  Free parking as well.

[Triple Jim]

Right Cloudbase, I've had some fun times at minor league ball games.  The next-to-top level events can usually be a good time.  I used to enjoy going to Freestate Raceway, in Laurel MD, where they'd run pacers.  For $20 you could get a couple beers and place a few $2 bets, in a much more relaxed environment than the crowded tracks.  Once in a while I'd pick a winner and the beer was free that evening.

[guzzisteve]

You could buy a new Guzzi for the price of a Falcons supebowl ticket. Flattrack racing tickets are a steal w/it comes to pro sports.

[Sasquatch Jim]

 S'not me buying those tickets.  Like basketball,  I have never understood why people pay money to watch ten half naked millionaires chase a ball around a big room.

[oldbike54]

 "A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore" . Who said it ? It seems appropriate .

 Oh , and yes I know who said it 

 Dusty

[Arizona Wayne]

The older I get the more I relish how cheap it was to amateur road race(late`60s), go to pro road races & AMA flat track racing in the `70's-90's.  Now I mostly watch all that stuff on the TV. BTDT.  Have a lot of good memories.

[pebra]

"A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore" . Who said it ? It seems appropriate .

 Oh , and yes I know who said it 

 Dusty

I think that has been on WG before
One of your most loved baseballers, strange name??

[oldbike54]

I think that has been on WG before
One of your most loved baseballers, strange name??

 Don't remember .

 Yes 

 Dusty

[Arizona Wayne]

I think that has been on WG before
One of your most loved baseballers, strange name??

I remember when a glass of beer @ a tavern was 30 cents.   What is it now $1.50?

[trippah]

In fairness, these are lodge seats, rather than balcony.  The seats right behind the players bench are closer to $700.00 per.  Yeah, my Bruins weekend would cost more than 1/10 a new small block Guzzi.  I don't even want to hear the prices for superbowl tickets. 

[oldbike54]

 Brother can you spare a dime , er , dollar , er twenty ?

 Dusty

[Lannis]

In fairness, these are lodge seats, rather than balcony.  The seats right behind the players bench are closer to $700.00 per.  Yeah, my Bruins weekend would cost more than 1/10 a new small block Guzzi.  I don't even want to hear the prices for superbowl tickets.

In terms of value received for the price, paying $490,000 for a Henderson 4 makes a lot more sense than paying $700 for a seat at a hockey game (or whatever the Bruins play)!!   

Lannis

[Triple Jim]

I remember when a glass of beer @ a tavern was 30 cents.   What is it now $1.50?

Maybe at happy hour it's $1.50, if they have a half price deal.  The best I used to get was seven drafts for a dollar, at the Anchorage in Somer's Point, NJ.  I bet Rotten Ralph knows what I'm talking about.  They were smallish glasses, maybe six or seven ounces, but you really got seven for a buck.

[cloudbase]

I grew up about a five minute walk from Forbes Field.  A dollar would get you a bleacher seat.  A couple more and you had a pretty good reserved seat, but you could usually sneak past the usher into the better seats.  I could get on a bus for $.35 that would drop me off two blocks from the Civic Arena where I could see a Penguins game.  $3.50 for a seat up with Bob Woytowich's Polish Army.  The ABA Condors sucked so much they'd let you in for free, just to have bodies in the seats.

[TodkaVonic]

We used to hit Arkansas Travelers games back when I lived in Little Rock a dozen or so years ago. Fun times. They had oil can Fosters for a couple bucks and there was a mini show put one during the seventh inning stretch. I remember two in particular: one was a man who would climb into a small wooden box and was then blown up. I think he was called the exploding man or something. I guess his dad was the exploding man before him. The box would blast apart and there he was sprawled out on the infield. Some rag-tag "paramedics" would rush out to him and confirm that he was ok, folks. The other was, honest to God, "midget-tossing." I'm serious. A couple of little people were thrown, down the first base line, as far as they could be thrown, by a couple of local jocks. They landed in like a high jump pit/pad. Holy crap that was a laugh.

[Arizona Wayne]

Maybe at happy hour it's $1.50, if they have a half price deal.  The best I used to get was seven drafts for a dollar, at the Anchorage in Somer's Point, NJ.  I bet Rotten Ralph knows what I'm talking about.  They were smallish glasses, maybe six or seven ounces, but you really got seven for a
buck.

Back then (`69-`70) we'd get a big pitcher of beer for $1.50 and after work there'd be barmaids taking turns dancing topless with no cover charge.    That was in Anaheim, Cal.    Those were the days my friend.  We thought they'd never end................ 

[Triple Jim]

Wayne, I looked up the Anchorage after my post.  About ten years after the good old days of the 7 draft thing, I visited the place, and it was a shadow of its former self.  I half expected to read that it was torn down.  But it turns out that a chef bought it and turned it into a respected local restaurant.  It's been operating since 1874, and now looks better than I ever saw it in person. 

I love the very old "BAR" signs on the roof.




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[vintage53]

A little history.  See attached, the summer of 1974.  Check out the cover charge , and performers.

My college years.  The Joint in the Woods, is no more.   It's sure was the place to be (the word joint had more than one meaning)
An up scale Sheraton is now on that farmland. 






Anyone who grew up in North Jersey new this place. 

[vintage53]

Ok Summer and Winter.

Poster. Is January.

[Penderic]

About 50 Cents?


 

[oldbike54]

About 50 Cents?


 

 Maybe they had Piaggio's ad writers do the math 

 Dusty

[Lannis]

A little history.  See attached, the summer of 1974.  Check out the cover charge , and performers.

My college years.  The Joint in the Woods, is no more.   It's sure was the place to be (the word joint had more than one meaning)
An up scale Sheraton is now on that farmland. 






Anyone who grew up in North Jersey new this place.

Only a $2.00 cover charge in 1981 at the Palace Hotel on Lake Wasapamani ....  That was a deal ....

Lannis

[Huzo]

Same here with the footy. If you want to turn sports people into "Gods" they'll expect to be fed like Gods. Touche' to the guy who said, "just show less interest" or something similar, then they"ll realise they're just workers providing a service. ( entertainment ?)

[cj750]

Major league sports have priced themselves out of any desire for me to go to a game.  Astros, Texans, Rockets-no way.  Fortunately, there is a AA baseball team in Sugar Land.  Great seats for $15, and a nice cozy stadium.  They don't bend you over on concession prices, either.  Free parking as well.

Be careful about touting minor-league baseball, or it'll get so popular they'll ruin it, too. Seriously, I'm lucky to have the NW Arkansas Naturals (KC Royals farm team) a few miles up the road. They have a modern stadium, prices are reasonable and they play good baseball. Most games feature fireworks, or a concert or some other special promotion, so the entertainment per dollar ratio is pretty good, even for a casual ball fan. I've been to two major league games in the past five years, and while its fun to see players at the very top level of the sport, the modest increase in skill level in no way justifies the quantum increase in ticket & concession prices, parking & traffic hassles and so forth, at least for me. The fact that there's enough draw for enough people to fill those huge stadiums night after night says a lot about the power of marketing.