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Parking and food advice around WBS

Posted on 9/6/18 at 7:32 pm
Posted by dustin8131
Member since Nov 2011
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Posted on 9/6/18 at 7:32 pm
We are making our first trip up and looking to get parking and decent grub around stadium. TIA and GO DAWgs
Posted by Dawg4Life47
Beach
Member since Sep 2013
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Posted on 9/6/18 at 7:50 pm to
Bring everything you need to eat and drink...nothing around that stadium.
Posted by germandawg
Member since Sep 2012
14135 posts
Posted on 9/6/18 at 8:34 pm to
It’s amazing how so many folks are fortunate to have never found cause to spend much time in Columbia, SC. For the uninitiated it’s unthinkable that a state capital is as devoid of any redeeming quality as Columbia is. It being South Carolina it shouldnt come as a surprise.
Posted by FinleyStreet
Member since Aug 2011
7983 posts
Posted on 9/6/18 at 8:47 pm to
Is it really that bad? Seems like an opportunity for a brewery to take over one of those abandoned warehouses I hear so much about.
Posted by deeprig9
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Posted on 9/6/18 at 8:51 pm to
All you need to know.

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Posted by TMDawg
Member since Nov 2012
5379 posts
Posted on 9/6/18 at 8:52 pm to
Least favorite SEC town I've been to. And I've been to Gainesville.
Posted by germandawg
Member since Sep 2012
14135 posts
Posted on 9/6/18 at 8:57 pm to
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Is it really that bad? Seems like an opportunity for a brewery to take over one of those abandoned warehouses I hear so much about.


It has potential. The problem is that the entire state is more interested in re-living the glory days of the 1950s and earlier south and it really is prevalent in Columbia. Augusta is very similar......folks in both places just ain’t willing to live in today. Even Charleston and Myrtle Beach are just ate up with backward thinking. Spend more than just a little time in South Carolina and you’ll hear some of the most fricked up shite imaginable come out of people. Not even Mississippi is as fricked up.
Posted by deeprig9
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Posted on 9/6/18 at 8:59 pm to
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Is it really that bad? Seems like an opportunity for a brewery to take over one of those abandoned warehouses I hear so much about.


Yeah, for 6 or 7 days out of the year, great idea. Where do your customers come from the other 358 days of the year?
Posted by deeprig9
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Member since Sep 2012
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Posted on 9/6/18 at 9:00 pm to
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It has potential. The problem is that the entire state is more interested in re-living the glory days of the 1950s and earlier south and it really is prevalent in Columbia. Augusta is very similar......folks in both places just ain’t willing to live in today. Even Charleston and Myrtle Beach are just ate up with backward thinking. Spend more than just a little time in South Carolina and you’ll hear some of the most fricked up shite imaginable come out of people. Not even Mississippi is as fricked up.


What the frick are you talking about?
Posted by Glory, Glory
Pawleys Island, SC
Member since Nov 2012
4498 posts
Posted on 9/6/18 at 9:07 pm to
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Bring everything you need to eat and drink...nothing around that stadium.


This. Horrible spot for a stadium honestly. The tailgating scene isn’t great but it’s not awful either. Take a bath in sunscreen and bring water. If you’re drinking, be prepared to have beer coming out of your pores. It’s hot and nasty

No food. No bars. You’re on your own. Don’t walk to downtown when the sun goes down.
This post was edited on 9/6/18 at 9:07 pm
Posted by TMDawg
Member since Nov 2012
5379 posts
Posted on 9/6/18 at 9:10 pm to
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Even Charleston and Myrtle Beach are just ate up with backward thinking.
Charleston is amazing. Dirty myrtle is pure unadulterated white trash.
Posted by FinleyStreet
Member since Aug 2011
7983 posts
Posted on 9/6/18 at 9:11 pm to
I feel like a few businessmen with money and a knack for food could make it better. Kind of like how Knoxville is slowly becoming less shitty.
Posted by TMDawg
Member since Nov 2012
5379 posts
Posted on 9/6/18 at 9:11 pm to
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Kind of like how Knoxville is slowly becoming less shitty.
It is?
Posted by germandawg
Member since Sep 2012
14135 posts
Posted on 9/6/18 at 9:15 pm to
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Charleston is amazing. Dirty myrtle is pure unadulterated white trash.



A very tight small segment of Charleston is very nice....but north of broad there’s not a lot of difference between it and Myrtle Beach.

I lived in Summerville for little over a year once. Awful place....and on top of the South Carolinians you got the retired Yankees who can’t afford south Florida and are pissed about it.
Posted by deeprig9
2023/24 B2B GSB Riboff Champ
Member since Sep 2012
67051 posts
Posted on 9/6/18 at 9:33 pm to
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A very tight small segment of Charleston is very nice....but north of broad there’s not a lot of difference between it and Myrtle Beach.

I lived in Summerville for little over a year once. Awful place....and on top of the South Carolinians you got the retired Yankees who can’t afford south Florida and are pissed about it.



I feel sorry for you.
Posted by LewDawg
Member since May 2009
75875 posts
Posted on 9/6/18 at 9:45 pm to
Good to know, thanks. I’ll load up on snacks and beer when I get to Aiken. I’ll have to snag some sunscreen as well
Posted by Glory, Glory
Pawleys Island, SC
Member since Nov 2012
4498 posts
Posted on 9/6/18 at 9:55 pm to
quote:

I feel like a few businessmen with money and a knack for food could make it better. Kind of like how Knoxville is slowly becoming less shitty.


I tailgated with fellow SCAR fans against Vandy, the week after UGA made Spurrier quit. We tailgated in a building with individual rooms off George Rogers Blvd. Think a storage facility. Apparently that’s where the money tailgated but it was booooring as hell. All they talked about was how rude UGA fans were and how much they hate us. Great hospitality, right?

Knoxville has the Vol Navy, but not much beyond that. My wife is a UT grad so we’ve been to a few non-UGA/UT games. There is nowhere to tailgate and the walk from a parking garage is brutal, steep hills and big drop offs. FTR, my wife always brags about tailgating in Athens.
This post was edited on 9/6/18 at 9:56 pm
Posted by devils1854
Franklin
Member since Aug 2014
6387 posts
Posted on 9/6/18 at 9:56 pm to
Stop by Bojangles on your way out.
Posted by germandawg
Member since Sep 2012
14135 posts
Posted on 9/7/18 at 6:32 am to
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I feel sorry for you.


Because I realize there’s more to this rock than South fricking Carolina?
Posted by Go_Dawgs
Member since Nov 2012
958 posts
Posted on 9/7/18 at 7:12 am to
There really isnt jack shite around the stadium, but you could prob slaughter some cattle and make some burgers as the stockyard/agriculture stuff is right next to the stadium.

Parking is also a pain in the arse there, but that should go without saying.

Now there are a decent amount of good restaurants about 5-10 mins from there, but like another poster said, being Columbia - its weird that there isnt much at all to do there.
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