Res Ipsa Loquitur

Toss in Dickson being one of the few real decent and semi safe bar areas in the Benon County and Washington County areas, add the fact that Benton County is, currently, still dry and you have a great way to spend a lot of tax payers money on something less than 10% of the population know anything about or care about.

Hell, by definition Hustler is Art.

Yea. It ticks me off too.

We used to go to the Common Grounds 4-5 times a week, for dinner or just to hang out. Now we go maybe once a month, when it's warm enough to sit outside so we can smoke. It's just no fun down there anymore.

How do you think the Benton Co. wet/dry election will go? I think it might just stay dry....though it's pretty silly considering it's surrounded by wet counties.

Wow, Dave's and Chester's closed? At least the Rec is still there. It sounds like Dickson Street is turning into into my idea of hell.

Hard to say

We have the capitilast Wal Mart fueled buisnessmen fighting the church driven religious movement.

Could get ugly.

I'm gunning for the county to go wet based on financial reasons, but I think they'll try to water it down with some "It's the peoples will" mumbo jumbo to keep from losing face with the "Moral" groups fighting them tooth and nail

The biggest shock was that Jed Clampitt's leaving. I mean, I wasn't a fan or anything but he's practically a Dickson St. institution. I keep telling you Bob, you wouldn't recognize the place.

Wet/dry elections are always like that. I (vaguely) remember when Baxter Co. went wet, and then the subsequent townships elections to determine if a particular town would allow alcohol sales. Things got pretty nasty.

The Benton Co. town that cracks me up is Siloam Springs. The Arkansas side hasn't any liquor stores or bars because it's dry, but there's tattoo parlours everywhere. The Oklahoma side has bars & liquor stores everywhere, but no tattoo parlours because they're illegal in Oklahoma.

Yeah, Jed Clampitt leaving is an amazing thing. I'm not a fan either but, like you said, the man is (was) an institution on Dickson Street. I guess I can (sort of) understand why people are doing this, as the almighty dollar rules. However, the local musicians, the dark bars (think Chester's, JR's, and The Rec), and cheap prices are what make (made) the relatively poor college kids spend their cash on Dickson Street. Like it or not, F'ville is a college town and the infusion of currency from the students is a major revenue source for all the town's businesses. If they keep making changes like this, the students will take their money and go elsewhere. Shoot, Springdale ought to start thinking about trying to duplicate the old Dickson Street.