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re: Bens Apartment Bar in Fayetteville
Posted on 10/24/12 at 7:09 pm to Marty McFrat
Posted on 10/24/12 at 7:09 pm to Marty McFrat
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You'd never know where it is on Garrison.
I'm sure I could find out if I asked, my uncle owns half the buildings downtown. Question is, worth it or not?
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Posted on 10/24/12 at 7:32 pm to FlyingRazorback
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I'm sure I could find out if I asked, my uncle owns half the buildings downtown. Question is, worth it or not?
Sorta, but you can't just walk into it. You have to have a key which means being a member, or just go with a member. It's not a bar really. It's kind of like a hangout, with all the liquor you can drink.
Posted on 10/24/12 at 8:24 pm to Marty McFrat
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It's kind of like a hangout, with all the liquor you can drink.
Sounds like a place where I can get away from everybody that's giving me shite in my life and just chill out with my bros and have a drink. I might have to look into it.
Posted on 10/24/12 at 8:37 pm to FlyingRazorback
Its probably because I'm getting older, but going out in Fort Smith is more fun than Fayetteville these days when I go home. Crowd is a lot more laid back, bars are less expensive, parking is easy, food is better.
Posted on 10/24/12 at 9:50 pm to FlyingRazorback
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Sounds like a place where I can get away from everybody that's giving me shite in my life and just chill out with my bros and have a drink. I might have to look into it.
Pretty much, got a nice plasma in there and two little rooms with couches you can crash on if you're too drunk to drive home from Garrison.
Posted on 10/24/12 at 9:59 pm to Marty McFrat
The Palace
Posted on 10/25/12 at 12:09 am to Ham Malone
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Its probably because I'm getting older, but going out in Fort Smith is more fun than Fayetteville these days when I go home. Crowd is a lot more laid back, bars are less expensive, parking is easy, food is better.
must be going to different places in fort smith then....That place is a hell hole and the bars are generally full of nothing but the last call desperation girls at all hours of the night in my experience.
Posted on 10/25/12 at 12:28 am to oklahogjr
You must be young. And he didn't mention women. Fort Smith is a retirement community, if you expect it to have the women of a college town you're not bright.
Posted on 10/25/12 at 2:53 am to TheOtherWhiteMeat
Isn't Fort Smith a massive fricking dump?
Only been through there twice and I was worried about getting carjacked the whole time.
Place seemed like a total trashy dump, but it might have been a bad part of town? No clue.
Only been through there twice and I was worried about getting carjacked the whole time.
Place seemed like a total trashy dump, but it might have been a bad part of town? No clue.
Posted on 10/25/12 at 6:47 am to UltimateHog
Fort Smith... My smoking Asian ex was from there, spent many many nights out down there, and many early morning drives up Hwy 59 dodging deer and county cops.
Ft. Smith folks are definitely less pretensious, it's a blue collar type town for the most part, the mfg has been drying up. Is anything been done w/ Ft. Chaffee? It should be turned into a big arse prison, or some sort of support facility for Tinker AFB since it's a quick flight away and just a few hours down I-40. Ft. Smith folks needs to do something with it to generate income.
Ft. Smith folks are definitely less pretensious, it's a blue collar type town for the most part, the mfg has been drying up. Is anything been done w/ Ft. Chaffee? It should be turned into a big arse prison, or some sort of support facility for Tinker AFB since it's a quick flight away and just a few hours down I-40. Ft. Smith folks needs to do something with it to generate income.
Posted on 10/25/12 at 7:21 am to UltimateHog
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Isn't Fort Smith a massive fricking dump?
It's an industrial town, hinging on former industrial the way things are going. These types of towns have a lot of blue collar workers so the town is geared toward them. It has it's nice areas to go along with the trashy looking areas.
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Only been through there twice and I was worried about getting carjacked the whole time.
The violent crime rate is a little higher than Fayetteville: 7 victims/1000 people compared to 4/1000. However, residential crime(theft, burglary) is significantly higher in Fort Smith. I never worry about being attacked no matter where I am in Fort Smith, but I lock my shite up.
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but it might have been a bad part of town?
Possibly, some of the areas near downtown look like crap. Towson Ave. area looks shitty too.
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Is anything been done w/ Ft. Chaffee?
Chaffee Crossing. There's a couple of new residential areas that have been built there that are pretty nice. A couple of manufacturers have opened their doors there, along with a Mitsubishi wind turbine plant that may or may not open their doors.
The majority of Fort Chaffee is still intact though (military). There's been discussion of reopening it (active post) as a training/mobilization site, which would create thousands of jobs.
This post was edited on 10/25/12 at 1:23 pm
Posted on 10/25/12 at 9:07 am to TheOtherWhiteMeat
<-------------Graduated from NHS. So....
NOBODY BETTER frickING MESS WITH ME!!!! I'LL TAKE ALL Y'ALL DOWN!!!
NOBODY BETTER frickING MESS WITH ME!!!! I'LL TAKE ALL Y'ALL DOWN!!!
Posted on 10/25/12 at 9:20 am to Marty McFrat
Nope. Waaaaaaaay back when I graduated, there weren't any Messicans!
Damn, but we had some good Asian food!
Damn, but we had some good Asian food!
Posted on 10/25/12 at 9:28 am to Miz Piggy
Seems like the entire North side is asian food of some sort.
Posted on 10/25/12 at 10:05 am to oklahogjr
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must be going to different places in fort smith then....That place is a hell hole and the bars are generally full of nothing but the last call desperation girls at all hours of the night in my experience.
What was the name of the place you went too?
What night?
Posted on 10/25/12 at 10:09 am to Miz Piggy
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<-------------Graduated from NHS. So....
Nettleton?!
Posted on 10/25/12 at 10:13 am to UltimateHog
Northside HS, its where most of the minorities and poor people go in Ft. Smith.
Posted on 10/25/12 at 10:25 am to oklahogjr
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last call desperation girls at all hours of the nigh
It is pretty much like that, but the bars with girls that I would want to take home would just get me in trouble these days
Posted on 10/25/12 at 1:03 pm to Ham Malone
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Northside HS
I graduated from Northside. My house was on Free Ferry which divided Northside and Southside districts so I had the option to go to either. I loved every minute of it. Since then, the privileged white kids in Southside's district have caught on and have started to go there realizing their chances of getting a scholarship into college is greater because none of the minorities which make up the majority...don't give a frick about their education.
Fort Smith all in all isn't too bad. Fort Chaffee is still up and running. The Navy SEALS make trips there every 3 months to do training and just this past summer they had a massive joint military exercise. Basically, the town thrives around Rheem, Gerber, Mars, Traine, and the 188th Fighter Wing. Three of those on that list are in danger of closing so what will happen to the city after that is a mystery.
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