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Group seeks to build mini-golf course in Downtown Crossing
By adamg on Thu, 08/05/2010 - 8:35am
Indoors, though, not in the Filene's Memorial Hole.
Boston Urban Mini-Golf Project (the G is silent).
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It Might Be A Fun Idea...
... but the spelling on the website is atrocious.
MY WIFE and I played an indoor mini-golf course while on our honeymoon.
(Yes, we had the best honeymoon ever.)
It was in Washington, DC, and had just opened. We may well have been the first players. It was located inside a bar, and the lighting was not very good. We realized early on, when one of us (I'm not telling who) hit a shot too hard and had it ricochet off the course and roll across the floor behind the bar, that indoor miniature golf inside a drinking establishment has a whole 'nother set of problems not associated with your normal run-of-the-mill mini-golf, and... I just realized that this is a rambling tale with no point whatsoever. I'm old.
Mini-Golf! Wheeeee!
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
Awesome!! I can totally see
Awesome!! I can totally see doing this! After-work mixer! And the idea of making the holes really cool by having local artists design them is really exciting. The ones in the burbs are really fake.
Still, though, I can't imagine paying more than $10/game. With the space required for a minigolf place, they might have a hard time covering their rent. That's why they usually locate in low rent places in the middle of nowhere. Add to that maintenance costs and labor and it'll be tough.
Here's your chance to make it happen!
Please vote for BUMP to win $50,000 through Pepsi Refresh Challenge and we will be closer to making this dream a reality. Vote once a day everyday in August - www.refresheverything.com/bumpgolf
From that Pepsi
From that Pepsi Refreshwhoring page:
And Bostonians are somehow blessed to be exposed to the "ingenuity" of local artists?
Hey, stand out on the sidewalk and expose your ingenuity to passersby. You don't need $50,000 to do that.
Here's a tip: this is all advertising budget for Pepsi, and everyone knows that arts funding is mostly about paying self-absorbed artists to do drugs and tell themselves how wonderfully important they are, so to really make the advertising dollars work for Pepsi, you're best off pitching this as being good for the environment or poor kids or something a little more sentimental and feel-good. Gotta keep that high-fructose corn syrup moving off the shelves somehow.
funding
Hey, stand out on the sidewalk and expose your ingenuity to passersby. You don't need $50,000 to do that.
You don't need $50K to do that, sure, but you might want to bring along a couple hundred dollars for bail.
And after that
Their website says you can head downtown and play their two promo holes. HEYOH!
Be careful...
Hey, stand out on the sidewalk and expose your ingenuity to passersby.
And then someone will take a picture of you and post it on Twitter, and the cops will use it on the wanted poster.