Best Choice Parking Shut Down by City of Anaheim
If you happen to be pulling up to our favorite tailgating lot off Orangewood this Thursday, prepare to be turned away. Where can we tailgate? Do I have to go to Throwbacks and hope to knock back some beer with Hud?
From the Article: "But he typically raises his rates during the playoffs to $15 to $18 – the stadium is expected to raise its rates, too. So in one game, he could bring in more than $6,000 in gross revenue."
How high does the stadium make prices now?
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TJ lot was gold. RIP
So was/is the RV parking (to the right of the TJ lot) Ask for RV parking and the Exit is Elite.
You either know or you don’t.
ssshhhhh. A lil free HH tidbit.
The Mexican food factory was next door.
Unless they tore down the fences too.
2211 was the warehouse I worked at before we moved and they tore it down. It was great: I could park there for free!
I have nothing important to say.
BTW
I will never go to throwbacks as long as they have their affiliation with AW. Fuck Chug, Adam and co.
But then again I’m a hater like that.
the Throwbacks guy is just trying to earn a living
The ChugAW Messageboard fat guys make way more out of their relationship with the bar than the bar brags about being mentioned on a messageboard.
This is wrong.
The family should have been given the opprotunity to hire security guards (off-duty APD). They could also have been given the chance to make it a valet lot that considers the sobriety of the potenial driver before handing back the keys.
Total money-grab by the city of Anaheim.
Who goofed? I've got to know.
This is irrelevant given the situation we are in
We need to win games right now, not bitch about parking prices. Priorities.
Don't call me Desmond!
This story has little to do with baseball.
Liberty is actually a higher priorty to me than baseball and even the Angels.
I have not had the money to go to any games this year let alone a play-off game. The price of parking near the stadium holds little interest to me. However, when an American businessman is incapacitated from doing business without being given a proper chance to do business “correctly,” it does interest me.
Perhaps your time living under the yolk of western European socialism has dulled your sense of American freedom. (I assume you have the privilge of being an American.) The government should NOT have the far reaching tentacles to reach into a citizen’s everyday life without better cause. If said citizen’s business causes a problem for society than a remedy should first be offered. Shutting down this business, this livelihood, without a chance of mediation is just wrong.
I believe that you’ve written that you are a journalist. You can out-debate me, you can out-write me. You can probubly make me look like a fool. But nothing I’ve written here has anything to do with the price of parking.
Who goofed? I've got to know.
by hittheg on Oct 7, 2009 4:02 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
I agree 100%
I know we are slowly witnessing the socialist over throw of this country, but this is the United States and anyone in their right mind would agree that they deserve to make money with their business.
What’s next? All restaurants around the stadium should be closed too so that only food can be bought at the stadium? Maybe only Anaheim sanctioned gas stations should be open too.
This is absolute bull shit. But this is where we are headed. The ignorant, uninformed, masses are throwing away our rights to big government so they can get more handouts for themselves off the backs of others.
Sorry for the rant. I just woke up and this pissed me off.
Buck Foston!
by Monkeyspanked on Oct 7, 2009 6:48 AM PDT up reply actions
remember no politics talk here
as much as i love to talk about politics, which i do, it needs to be separate from our baseball discussion.
Aybar is a nowhere man, Sitting in his Nowhere Land, Making all his nowhere plans for nobody.
by princeton11loveshalos on Oct 7, 2009 6:54 AM PDT up reply actions
sorry.
I had just woke up and it caught me off my guard.
Rev feel free to erase if you can.
Buck Foston!
by Monkeyspanked on Oct 7, 2009 7:22 AM PDT up reply actions
it IS about liberty I agree
I don’t think it is about socialism – a savvy capitalist can go to city hall and bribe his way to his own ends when there is no integrity in the administration there.
Does anyone honestly think that if the parking lot owner had not pulled out 2 grand in cash to the city employee who came by to shut him down that the lot would be closed? That is what disgusts me – the lack of accountability in the process set upby administrators for their benefit rather than the benefit of the people.
LOL!
I know we are slowly witnessing the socialist over throw of this country
Just curious- do you own a lot of cats?
Apologies in advance.
Yeah...
not smart to attack highland… he kicks literary ass. But your argument is clear.
To highlandhalo:
I think this topic is perfectly relevant to our present time and is among our priorities. This site’s big enough for every priority… even the nit-picky ones.
I assume it's not really a money issue for people...
as they charge slightly more than the other “private” lots across Orangewood. I miss the $5 McDonald’s dirt lot on St. College though.
"This is a guy who is a combination of great courage and, nuts!"- Steve Physioc
by Brian S (brianguy) on Oct 7, 2009 11:23 AM PDT up reply actions
oh hell ya
i loved that lot, I’m so sad it’s filled with empty condos now! i wonder what happened to that big black dude that would hawk tickets there and at J.T. Schmidt’s back in the day…
#34, never forget.
But of course, they're just tailgating at home, then driving to the game drunk!
Just what the city wanted!
Nick Adenhart - 1986 - 2009 R.I.P.
by swiss mcgee on Oct 7, 2009 9:57 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
What they want
is for you to spend way too much money drinking at a local bar which pays taxes to the city.
Of course, that’s not what will end up happening for most people. The usual side effect of the anti-alcohol crusade is that when you attempt to prevent people from drinking, you’re really just driving it underground and making it more dangerous for all of us.
in their car
"This is a guy who is a combination of great courage and, nuts!"- Steve Physioc
by Brian S (brianguy) on Oct 7, 2009 11:23 AM PDT up reply actions
hopefully not while driving to the game
that’s all.
"This is a guy who is a combination of great courage and, nuts!"- Steve Physioc
by Brian S (brianguy) on Oct 7, 2009 2:37 PM PDT up reply actions
Boo!
It was only a matter of time. I hope this is only for playoff games…
this guy could make almost $500,000 per season in parking revenue...
that is all cash. i hope he was paying his taxes on that.
someone on OC Reg
estimated it at like $275,000, but I’m not sure that included playoffs. so probably somewhere in between is the truth.
I think the guy was paying taxes, but you never know if they underreported. bottom line it wasn’t permitted / zoned for public parking, so they got rid of him on a technicality.
"This is a guy who is a combination of great courage and, nuts!"- Steve Physioc
by Brian S (brianguy) on Oct 7, 2009 11:25 AM PDT up reply actions
Bus
I know its not for everyone but free shuttle will run at 5:30 and 6:00. Hope to see more of you out there. It is our goal to be the #1 Angel fan bar.
I'd take Amtrak/Metrolink, but I don't know if I'll be able to get home on it.
Angels baseball. We do what we must, because we can -- HaloDutch
Free parking at Throwbacks?
I’ve never ventured over, and I hate the playoff parking situation.
RIP #34
yeah
I keep hearing they have a free shuttle.
is the new Catch open yet? that used to be a great place to wander over from. now it’s on Katella across from The Grove.
"This is a guy who is a combination of great courage and, nuts!"- Steve Physioc
by Brian S (brianguy) on Oct 8, 2009 9:26 AM PDT up reply actions
Anyone know if Hud will be broadcasting there on Friday before the game?
Angels baseball. We do what we must, because we can -- HaloDutch
That small business park
right behind the Ayres Hotel on Douglass is where I park almost every time. It’s usually $5 during the season (it was disappointingly $10 when I went there prior to a Yankees game this season), and run by the same guy every time. He’s had a couple really cute puppies with him the last few times I’ve been by, too.
by Caseys Kiss of Death on Oct 7, 2009 11:51 PM PDT reply actions
Plus
for the money, it’s probably the easiest/shortest walk to and from the stadium of any of the non-stadium parking.
by Caseys Kiss of Death on Oct 7, 2009 11:52 PM PDT up reply actions
what about
the Hooters Lot? isn’t it usually $5?
I’m sure it’s going to (at least) double for the playoffs, but just sayin that’s another option…
"This is a guy who is a combination of great courage and, nuts!"- Steve Physioc
by Brian S (brianguy) on Oct 8, 2009 9:28 AM PDT up reply actions
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