Posted on 04/21/2002 3:52:35 PM PDT by GalvestonGal.com
Thursday Afternoon - Galveston officials are prepared for Beach Party Weekend. Special Events Coordinator Paula Ozymy says this year's event is different than in previous years. Listen
Friday morning was quiet in Galveston, on the Seawall, Broadway and at the Ferry Landing.
Friday at 2 p.m. a few tourists enjoyed the amenities of the Strand Historic District.
KUHF Houston Public Radio Friday PM -- City of Galveston officials are braced for the influx of thousands of young people for beach party weekend. Jim Guidry says changes have been made to mitigate problems in past years. Listen
Friday at 4 p.m., Beach Party Weekend Crowds were beginning to build, while some regular beachfront users continued their activities.
Early Friday evening, Event Coordinator Paula Ozymy reported in after a tour of the beachfront. Listen
Friday at 8:30 p.m. Guidry News Service Reporter Daniel Eksuzian visited the Seawall. This is his report:
Beach Party Weekend is underway but at about 8:30 Friday night, the corner of 45th and Seawall had only light to moderate traffic. A few groups of people were congregated around the Coastal Mart where the visitors seemed to be having a good time with music, laughter, and some great paint jobs on tricked-out vehicles adding to the festivities.
Except for the Academy Sporting Goods store, the other businesses in the area were closed and barriers setup to control traffic. There was a small group of Police Officers gathered in front of the Academy riding quad runners or on foot. Two vehicles had been stopped by police briefly in the area.
Not only visitors to the Island were enjoying the beautiful evening. A gathering of friends at an area residence were also sitting outside and enjoying good BBQ and pleasant company.
Friday at 9 p.m. crowds were building on the Seawall. There were few people downtown.
Saturday at 7 a.m. - Broadway Boulevard, which was bumper to bumper all night long, was lined with cars loaded with young people. There were few people on Seawall Boulevard. Many of the young people camped out overnight in the Jack Tar property at 6th at Broadway
Saturday at 9 a.m.- Police Chief Bob Pierce reviews the first night of Beach Party Weekend. Listen
Saturday at 1 p.m. - Seawall Boulevard, Broadway, the Jack Tar property, East Beach, and other places where Beach Party visitors gathered, were packed.
Saturday at 4 p.m. - Beach Party Weekend visitors continued to cross the Causeway as the Seawall and Broadway continued to fill with the young partiers. Jim and Lynda Guidry set out to find fresh seafood and were successful.
Saturday at 6 p.m. - Mayor Roger Quiroga says the crowds are "more subdued" than last year. Listen
Saturday at 7 p.m. - As the Sun began to set on Galveston, Beach Party Visitors continued to pack Galveston Island.
Listen to a stealth mike placed in an oleander bush on the Broadway esplanade at 10th Street.
Saturday at 11 p.m. - These photos were taken in the 900 Block of Broadway.
Sunday at 9 a.m. - Galveston is quiet, but littered with tons of trash.
Sunday at 11 a.m. - Mayor Roger Quiroga reports on the Saturday night sweep, and talks about prospects for Sunday afternoon. Listen
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But this is the time to YIP YIP away, while it's still fresh, before everybody on the island drinks the kool aid again and hopes for a hurricane to blow it away.
Galveston is a very racially and ethnically mixed island. We are an old Southern port and we love it just because it is so mixed and friendly. So to run on an anti-beach party campaign just gives everybody a headache.
What I need from the rest of you guys is what is being posted: your comments, views, what another town did, etc. Thanks alot.
The same group puts on a similar event called the "Kappa Lueau" here in Tallahassee, Florida. It was this past weekend here. Its a nice three days of traffic jams, theft at the malls, trashing of places and general nuisance from out-of-town thugs. It was not that bad until they started getting national "rap acts" to come. It was just a fraternity thing, until they gave every thug within 200 miles a reason to come here. After hearing about some of these other events in other towns, my mom asked me, "Do they just pick a different town each weekend to trash?"
A couple of years ago, we found the warf restaurants to be too crowded on Mardi Gras Saturday night (~9PM). I drove up to the sea wall to see what was open and the police were restricting traffic sending visitors back to the highway. It wasn't like there was a crowd cruising around and yet the road was blocked.
There was also an incident in Houston with cruising (or parking) in one of the black neighborhoods in town. I know that it was covered on KCOH 1430AM (a black station), where they actually supported telling the crowd to hit the road. I don't know that it blipped on the radar of citywide news.
Another precident. Houston youth used to "cruise the curve" of lower Westheimer and were run off by repeat police checkpoints where every car was searched (don't want to be searched and harassed? don't go). The end of "cruising the curve" led to some area nightclubs opening their doors to the 18+ crowd on weekends. Then mayor Whitmire heard complaints from parents about their kids that were staying out all night (hello, 18 is adult). The police started to (and continue to) enforce a law that was passed in 1968 but not enforced until the 1980s banning dancing after the sale of alcohol ends. This led to "after hour" clubs in Houston, where people could pay to keep dancing by going to another club. It really didn't help Houston streets to force drunk people to leave bars at 2AM (instead of letting them stay for a couple more hours to sober up).
I know all of this as someone who grew up through Houston's nightlife during those years.
Like he'd need to use some automatic firepower that day?
What had been a fairly uneventful Beach Party weekend erupted in gunfire Sunday evening when at least four gunshots were fired at 33rd Street and Seawall Boulevard. Details were sketchy, but apparently, no one was injured in the shooting,
Must have failed to purchase his HoMeBoY NyTe SyTeS.
You and me, TA79, you and me!"
Well good. You can have it. (Been there done that) I'll take Dauphin Island any day.
If you're into this enough to do some serious research, buy some access to the stacks at the Atlanta Journal and Constitution and read up. Like I said earlier, the City of Atlanta (a fairly small area, actually, and only 1/8 or 1/10 of the metro area population) has been black-run for 20 years, and they ran Freaknik out of town. Just a Google search on "freaknik atlanta" gets you these gems:
Atlanta mayor gets recommendation for ending support for Freaknik
... by reports of sexual assaults and lewd behavior during Freaknik last month, the committee
said Atlanta should no longer sponsor concerts and other events as it ...
www.onlineathens.com/1998/051698/0516.a2freak.html - 12k - Cached - Similar pages
Freaknik too lewd, crude for Atlanta?
... ATLANTA - The party may be over for Freaknik, Atlanta's annual spring bash for
black college students. Prompted by TV footage of gangs of men groping women ...
www.onlineathens.com/1998/051498/0514.a2freaknik.html - 17k - Cached - Similar pages
[ More results from www.onlineathens.com ]
Atlanta braces for Freaknik '98 with a new plan - 1998-03-16 - ...
... to industry'. As part of the effort to mitigate the effects of Freaknik, the Atlanta
Convention & Visitors Bureau, hotel directors and the sales force at the ...
atlanta.bizjournals.com/atlanta/stories/1998/03/16/story6.html - 51k - Cached - Similar pages
A quieter Freaknik? Signs point to a subdued event - 1999-03-01 - ...
... Freaknik is dying'. "The trends are showing Freaknik is dying in Atlanta," Hawthorne
said. "We need to drive a stake through its heart. Last year, our ...
www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/stories/1999/03/01/story7.html - 51k - Cached - Similar pages
Plenty more where those came from.
Heh heh. Probably. lol. I've never been down for this specific weekend that's being talked about on here, but any other holiday weekend it's fun down there across the water. I've actually never done much in Galveston except drive thru it to get to the ferry. Oh yeah, I stop and get gas at the racetrack on the way back. heh heh.
Another point to be made here is that the Galveston Daily News wimps out - to the point of being pro Beach Party. They mitigate statements like: Gunfire errupts!, with "otherwise uneventful".
Uneventful trash pickup (huge$$$$), 23 stolen cars, 75 arrests, 1/10 of the season's tourist dollars NOT being spent on the island. Yeah, it's uneventful - as in a hostage sitting in their cell.
He springs into the street, just feet away from his target and yells "hey, cuz!" (cousin) and shoots the gun sideways - like your spoof link describes.
Blam, blam, blam! sideways - just a few feet - and totally misses the dude. He could've used a HoMeBoY NyTe SyTeS!
Here is a list of links on that site:
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I certainly am not going to put in the HREF for these sites. Anybody can scan them and see what kind of a spokesman and business person represents Beach Party.
I would say to Mr. Darden that the opposition is not racially/hate motivated. I would say we are PRO WOMEN, not exploiters of black women.
I'm about as far from a prude as you can get.... I love a good party... and public nudity doesn't faze me a bit. A little chaos is good for everyone ... it lets out stress. BUT this event is the worse and most extreme thing I've ever seen. A warning to all : DO NOT BE ON GALVESTON DURING THIS TIME. It's dangerous for everyone... AND very dangerous if you are white.
You and me, TA79, you and me!"
Well good. You can have it. (Been there done that) ...
As a BOI from years ago I can remember the old Splash Days, which simply meant the opening of the spring/summer season. When families came to enjoy the (then) free beaches.
In the late 30's and early 40's it developed into a more commercial event with big name bands and a lot of people. During the war years it was about the only place for people from nearby towns, Houston, Beaumont, etc. to go to "get away" for a weekend. While Galveston was crowded during Splash Day, the rowdiness, lewdess and total lack of respect for others was absent, unlike the GBP of today.
I left Galveston in the mid-80's because of personal reasons, but I was there during the early days of this "party." As I was driving home down Seawall Blvd. after visiting my brother in the hospital, I was treated to the most disgusting behavior and threats I had personally witnessed...by the same people I had fought for their rights only twenty years before. I suppose this was their thanks to me.
Look at the pictures GalvestonGal.com linked to. Just the trash left behind would fill a small cargo ship. Not to mention the noise, drugs, and total lack of respect for the residents of the island.
Does this make me a racist? I'll answer that for you. NO! I just detest the lack of respect this crowd displays. White, black, red, yellow, skin color makes no difference. Behavior is what counts.
GalvestonGal.com, please FReep-mail me! I want to move back and will happily help you in any way I can to put a stop to this.
These people who invade Galveston annually for this weekend are obnoxious and just plain old nasty and they would be outraged if someone invaded the towns where they lived and left them in the condition they leave the city of Galveston.
Oh, and there's the traffic - delays of up to 4 hours for what should have been no more than a 40 minute drive. If this is about as big a boost for the economy as a hurricane.
Why is everyone here so afraid of the truth...the fact that Galveston has permitted savages to take over for two days. They have gotten exactly what they deserve.
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