Unbelieveable !!

I was actually shocked,shocked I say to see one of the headlines in the Journal under local news. "Bar hoping girls a hit" proclaimed the headline."Girls gone wild coming to town".

 

Is this the only way we can generate business in this town ?!! I'm no saint,but where is the shame in printing a headline like this on the front page of local news ? Why wasn't it buried somewhere else in the paper ?

 

Vet,Randy,Mike,January 18th,8pm,....I'll meet you at the bar.  

Hermes, I am going down there at least to take a picture, of the bus ofcourse

I wonder if Honest Dave will be there (on the clock, of course) to see if an "emergency situation" develops, as part of his duties for his new court gig???

Today is the day!!

Vet, I am going to go down get a pic or two of the bus, but I have a better story I would like look into. How do the businesses around this club feel about all this? How is it going to help or hurt them? Thats what I want to know.

Well once again Middeltown makes the afternoon news on channel 9,I assume someone put out a press release.

well--they dis patronize the local SAVEALOT, buying a large quantity of honey, whipped cream etc.

I wonder if they will be having a trivia contest there tonight???  (You know...just to attract those "academia" types.)

Well alrighty! Article in today's Journal says that the 165 people crowded into Reflections had a good time last night. Just a DUI, some marijuana and a few drunk and disorderlies- not bad. What was troubling about the article was a section that said there were some detractors concerning this event. Apparently SOME folks can't see the big picture and were critical saying that they didn't want to see "scantily-clad, intoxicated" girls involved in this shindig. I'll tell you....... some people just can't seem to get with the PR- image- spin doctors in YOUR city government. Don't they know by now that this whole "Hustler/Bristols/Girls Gone Wild (Lion's Den bookstore next in line for Middletown perhaps?????) theme is a real image maker and when coupled with our HUD funded, lower income saturated, " poor slum/naughty city" culture that our city leaders are trying to grow will put us on the map to attract only the best? Shees....some of you Middletown folks need to get with the program!   

Did any of our dignitaries stop by? Great photo op. How about those fightin' dog poop gals?

A successful night in Middletown ! Congratulations all around for such a fantastic event & minimal arrest ! No killings,shootings or stabbings,truly an event for the history books of Middletown. Such a prideful event deserves recognition by our city leaders. I think the city should make a declaration & declare an emergency in recognizing this historical moment. Perhaps the city could secure financial funding in the way of stimulus monies to help out on events such as this.

 

With the Hustler store in Monroe maybe we can get good ole boy Larry to come to town and host a party. Maybe even get our own Hustler store !!

 

Middeltown has potential !!

One last thought, what would you rather have in town, Girls Gone Wild for one day or another closed bussiness?

OK- just took a look at the 29 pictures Mike was referring to in the Journal. Why is it the girls in the Girls Gone Wild promos look a little better than the ones in these pictures? Do you mean to tell me the promos don't represent the ones you get at an event like this? Was looking for some of our leaders in the pics having fun. Didn't see any. Where's the support from our leaders in a major social event like this? Disappointed in the lack of representation. Randy- we're all having fun with this, although I can't see any positives in doing things like this for the city's image. I'm sure it has already given us a with surrounding communities. The old "what do you expect, it's Middletown" hurts us. Yes, it may stimulate this particular kind of business in the short term, but how much residual damage does it do to the city overall? IMO, I don't view this as a positive.

Randy- in your 2nd paragraph you ask- "What is a better image, city council fighting like the Schiavone/Williams days or this?"

IMO- Neither has a place in helping our city recover from the image destruction it has seen in recent years. The bickering and hostility of the Schiavone/Williams days (with some behind the scenes badgering from Noah Powers) hurt the credibility of council. I'm still not convinced Council has recovered from those days as to being taken seriously and has, in fact, been the butt of many jokes outside of this forum.

The Reflections/Girls Gone Wild scenario just adds ammunition to the already "seedy" image of this city, regardless of the reason for the event. IMO, it isn't the REASON it was held- ie. to boost a bar's business, but rather,after the fact, the notion that this town has turned into a real-life pictorial example of an "Appalachia/poor/destitute/low-life/slum-like/welfare burg with no hope for recovery on it's current course. After the event has come and gone, what opinion of Middletown is left for people to identify with? Can't be a respectable one, can it? Not with this kind of entertainment.