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What the South End really needs
By adamg on Mon, 07/21/2008 - 6:27pm
A place for serious dancing, Ryan Barrett writes:
... Can you believe that there's no spot in the South End where patrons can shake it a little on the dance floor? This baffles me, what with all the crazy money-spenders, pseudo-celebrities, young couples and uber-handsome gay men that the South End attracts. I thought the owners of Mantra would bring some dancing to the South End with Banq, but the only thing they carried were their leather-clad fans (seriously, I've seen red dominatrix outfits in Banq) and general not-quite-right-ness. ...
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Let them have Boston Billiards
I went into Boston Billiards Club over by Fenway the other night for the first time in a while. I must have gotten there just as they started the "club" part. Reggaeton music went up louder than you can think, the dance floor (in a billiards hall?) started throwing smoke and laser ball crap, and when I looked around, I noticed that half of the place was closed off (and there were no longer any billiard tables in those areas).
What the hell...it's like the place forgot it was a pool hall and decided to stress the "Club" in its name instead. I'm pretty sure they changed in order to get more people in the door to buy more alcohol (a much higher profit rate than hourly pool table rentals), but they've totally destroyed the atmosphere the place used to have. It used to be a great place to go play pool or just sit around have have a beer near the bar, but with the music so loud and nonsense like lasers and smoke they've totally destroyed that dark sort-of ambiance they used to have.
Oh well, tell the South End to come and take the place away and put it in on of their alleys. Maybe we can put a new pool hall back in its place again.
Dame Dame Gasolina!
I've never seen that before, and I go to the BBC semi-regularly. It's one of my favorite places in Boston. I can well imagine that fake smoke and flashy lasers would interrupt my pool game or prevent me from knocking the pinball machines.
I hope it's not a trend. Of course, one of the reasons I like it so much is that it's frequently almost deserted, so it doesn't surprise me much that management would try something new to get people in.
I don't think BBC would fit on any South End alleys. The place is cavernous. Which makes me think that there really ought to be space for dancing and pool too, if they don't just stick the dancing right in the middle of everything.
Guess where they stuck the dance floor
Right in the middle of everything directly behind the bar from the door when you go inside. Also, I don't think there are any pinball machines any more, just the jukebox. I don't know if the jukebox was playing when I was there or some sort of DJ set list, but it was all Reggaeton and all crap.
Does this mean you won't be going there anymore?
Not only do they have a dance floor, they put it in the middle of everything.
No pinball machines. What!? That shit s f*cked up.
And the music is "all Reggaeton and all crap."
... and they call it Boston Billiards???
Ok, back to the original post, Does South End really need a spot with a dance floor? (Who was it that said every post has its own subject plus simultaneously they're all about Kaz?)
Ok, that's screwed up
I know exactly the spot you're talking about, and that's exactly the worst spot to put it. Their steadiest customers are pool players, and if they can't play pool there because Luny Tunes is playing too damn loud, they may alienate their core clientele. OTOH, their online calendar lists a dance on Fridays at 10 PM, so I'd guess that'd the night you went and the night you should stay away. I know I will.
As for the pinball, last time I was there (two weeks ago), there were two fully functional pinball machines in the room to the left of the... dance floor... World Cup Soccer was the one I played. I don't remember the other one. I'd be really surprised to hear they pulled them out in the last couple of weeks, because they've had regularly rotating pinball machines for a couple decades.
"all Reggaeton and all crap"
Redundant.
Apparently you need a permit
to allow dancing in Boston - no joke! Upon renting out a restaurant for a birthday party a few years back, we were told we could have dj but no dancing as they didn't have a permit for dancing. If that's true, I'm sure it must be some ordinance dating back in 1700 when dancing was a sure sign of the devil.