Saturday Evening in JB is a ghost town, Need a family draw.

nise Lovan your right, now the only activities is a parade of homeless.
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Mike Altee Maybe cuz it was blazing hot
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Scarlett Flores But the city itself has changed. What place does a family have amongst a bunch of bars?
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Craig N Amber Ramey Cause theres no attractions down there use to be game rooms rides and stuff.. not anymore...surprised they dont have more movie nights down there its always packed then and we always enjoying eating dinner down there first then the movie...
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Pam Dickinson Maybe we need different folks on city council. People who actually care about this city and its people, not just ...progress. Im not a political person myself - not smart enough - but I cant think of anything else to help bring family entertainment to the beach. Somebody help me!!!
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Mike Altee Family entertainment goes to bed at 9 pm......adult entertainment goes till 2 am and spends a bunch of money. ..nothing is stopping families from visiting the area....plenty of shopping eating fir families down there....I mean ritas and five guyd serve family fun
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Steph Reeder In today's electronics oriented self-absorbed world, less focus on family has become the unfortunate normalcy.
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George Koski Where's the shooting gallery, the string game, penny arcade, bad food places? That's the real question - they paved paradise.
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Craig N Amber Ramey George thats when it was fun
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Sheila Campbell Everyone at EverBank ?
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Donna Marks You can only eat and drink so much. Then there isn't anything else to do with small children or teenagers. It's an adult atmosphere after the wine n dine. I recall going to the skating rink and playing then arcade games or just people watching in my youth. When I run the area I don't see many families after 7pm.
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Jacky Daughenbaugh I personally don't feel that safe down there after the crowd thins out. Some of the homeless can be aggressive and threatening. It's pretty sad and far from what I grew up with.
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Natalie J Williams When they bring back things where I can take my kids, get a corn dog, play arcade games and ride the tilt-a-whirl, then we will be there. Otherwise what is there to do? Eat seafood, have a drink in bar, or just walk up and down the boardwalk looking at hotels?
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Kay Kamienski If you go you are afraid of panhandlers or getting mugged .once there noting to do. Inthe 50's and early 60's ther were rides, arcades and people watching. Now nothing, I would be afraid to go there at night. I long for the good times.
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Ryan McGibany They so need to do something down there!
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Ξηυξκ ΜξΞυε The current mayor ran his campaign about creating a family friendly beach. He at one time had a plan online. Seems that plan has changed once he was elected.
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Ryan McGibany Would seem so!
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Natalie J Williams They have created hotels for vacationers and restaurant/bars for adults. They've taken away the kid friendly stuff. That's fine, young adults need stuff to do but don't create an all adult atmosphere and then ask 'how can we get families to come here'.
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Steph Reeder Many vacationers travel with children and look for family things to do. How are these beachfront/boardwalk hotels family friendly in an adult geared neighborhood? There's only so much sun-tanning, shell-searching and swimming you can do with an 8-10 year old before they get bored! I'd sure vote to bring back some of the good old days when family fun came before all night bars and wet t-shirt contests!
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Ξηυξκ ΜξΞυε Downtown JB has 3 shifts. Most of the businesses are aimed for the 9 till close shift. We need bars and the late shift patrons. However we need a draw for the earlier shift. I'd personally like to see a ferris wheel, boardwalk arcades, karts, another small amusement park, and we really need another pavillion/arena for proms, dances, basketball, concerts, etc.
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Natalie J Williams I agree with ^^
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Natalie J Williams Jacksonville needs a THEME PARK.
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Ellen Rogers Donaldson for one thing, there's no "board"walk any more (was there ever, or was it always just concrete). That brick paving is so sterile looking. The ambiance I remember is that of a carnival - so exciting for kids with the lights, music, and lots of people - at night of course.
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Ξηυξκ ΜξΞυε WRITE your Mayor and city council to turn the screws. Apathy sets in and the will continue approving more bars and whore out our home.
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Ellen Rogers Donaldson sure sounds like it's all about money.
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Ξηυξκ ΜξΞυε We have plenty of "playgrounds" for adults here (bars, golf courses, tennis courts) and very littlecfor todays non-stick and ball kids. We need a action sports park with a BMX track, skateboad park, etc
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Kimberly Kay Gaudet I remember how busy it was. I remember Pee Wee hotdog shop at the end. I remember visiting my BIL Kenneth when he worked there.
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John-Heather Baldwin Harris Anyone who has been there in last several years knows it is terrible. The crime, homeless people lack of "family" activities. All you have is bar, bar... Then you have other areas/things still close enough that take care you families. So question is WHY would/do you want to go there. You do not need too.
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Ξηυξκ ΜξΞυε Shooting .22 rifles at G Patrick Marino families booth was fun! In this pc age the only guns on the boardwalk are in the saggy pants of the late Sunday crowd that comes here to wheel and deal. #truth
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Kimberly Kay Gaudet Street venders and sidewalk artist are needed. There used to be an arcade there too. It was a treat for us to go get cotton candy and play skeet ball at the arcade.
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Ξηυξκ ΜξΞυε The mayor and his council decided to spend tens of thousands of the peoples money with a California based firm to figure out what could make JB more hospitable. I personally feel that money should have been given to local hard working merchants for th...See More
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Ξηυξκ ΜξΞυε On the positive side the artwalk, cruise-in, movie nights, buddy walk are all the right things to have for a family beach.
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Kimberly Kay Gaudet We had all that stuff once along time ago...then the junkies, drunks,gangs, and hookers moved into the area and it was no longer the safe place it started out. It had a Ferris wheel and go carts, it had a small amusement park with a carrousel, and smal...See More
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Craig N Amber Ramey They wont allow street vendor's. ..will take away from the over priced restaurants and businesses will leave.. need another amusement park down there like it use to be.. everyone wanted to go to the beach back then...Unfortunately. . Gang bangers and t...See More
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Kimberly Kay Gaudet I think the venders and restaurant owners could work something out. It just takes people willing to communicate.
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Ξηυξκ ΜξΞυε I have to say the men in blue have stepped up and it is a much different enviroment now compared to last year. We just have nothing to attract a family to hang out on First Street. Another positive is we have Adventure Landing that helps the beach business, but we need more stuff like it.
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Craig N Amber Ramey Adventure landing is way over priced and outdated... the city didnt even want food trucks...just need to work it out where the people can go have family fun and the city can make some money
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Kimberly Kay Gaudet The attractions need to be spread out through the city though. There is a need for an advertising campaign. Wake up people to the different things to do in Jax to begin with.
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Brian Nicol Now it's full of ignorance
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Ξηυξκ ΜξΞυε Food truck have been let in but with soo many restrictions many local trucks opt to work in town where they can actually make $$
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Kimberly Kay Gaudet Food trucks are all over the place in California and do a great service for the industrial plants. The trucks come to the plants, businesses and warehouses two and sometimes three times a day. Employees go to the trucks for lunch instead of using thei...See More
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Craig N Amber Ramey Exactly...^^^small business cant thrive at the beach anymore..this is why nothing will ever happen at the beach cause a big company would come in and charge an arm and a leg and would be a waste of time and money...
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Ξηυξκ ΜξΞυε I would call for less regulation but make it where beaches based trucks get first choice of location and other benefits. The over the ditch trucks that come here extract $$ need to pay a higher lisc. Fee.
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Megan Roberson Jax Bch has been taken over by the 21+ crowd. Not family friendly anymore... It's so sad. We were out there every weekend but now there's nothing... I miss the old Jax Bch
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Kimberly Kay Gaudet Small city in different states have kept Walmart and other giants out and putting strict business reg on ones that they did let in. These little towns, the mom and pop stores are doing very well.
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Ξηυξκ ΜξΞυε What I call the 3rd shift (1p-close) Is where the $$ is at this time. That is why there are so many bars. If we don't build a family friendly environment with a draw they will not come. Families used to come to the beach hang out all am sunning, riding rides, playing skeeball, etc. Then pack up, shower off and have a nice lunch at a local casual restaurant before heading back in town. We need to market to the 1st shift.
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Ξηυξκ ΜξΞυε Big box stores are not the reason for the CBD demise.
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Kimberly Kay Gaudet Let arts and crafts vendors, face painting, balloons, and such. Place para scopes so people can look out over the water and up and down other parts of the beaches. The life guards used to be involved with a lot of the beach activities. The "changing" of the guards used to be a sight.
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