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Solution sought to Northgate bar crowding proble
Patricia Street wall for overflow may be answer shellenberger’s
By SUZANNE HEMBY
Battalion Reporter
“Stepping out” for many students
esterbrougfeij at Texas A&M University usually
neans going to one of the Northgate
bars.
Many people are concerned about
some problems surrounding these
bars: the Dixie Chicken, the Thirsty
Turtle, the Alamo and Duddleys
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Don Canter, one of the Dixie
thicken owners, said he is “all for
losing off Patricia Street” on the
veekends and giving the people an
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The main problem is that when
iere are so many people at these
s, the crowds often flow out onto
diversity Drive. A solution would
to move the bar’s front doors to
’atricia Street in back of the busi-
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ormation tt; area to talk outside. He added that
rbout $2,000 was spent remodeling
he back porch of the Dixie Chicken
for this purpose.
Eric Langford, Student Govem-
ent vice president of student ser-
ices, said Student Government is
looking at the problems of that area,
nd hopes to suggest some answers.
He said the Patricia Street idea
T « i I would be a solution, and it “wouldn’t
| fm take much to fix it up.”
^ M Jack Sebastian, owner of the Ala-
p mo, said he supports the Patricia
WiStreet idea. “I’ve tried to get them
I l/I k (other owners, the city) to do this for
o years.” He said he cleaned up
he Alamo’s back area, which in-
luded building an 8-foot rock wall
d the construction of an $8,500
arking lot.
Richard Benning, owner of Dud-
ed its lip dleys Draw, said he is also for the
h 41.490::,: rPatricia Street idea. He said steps
1 or activelv* | should be taken to light the back area
and clean up and block off the street
its an inc® iWith barricades. He added that the
1,540 for Sesl: owners offered to pay for this, which
total civil® would cost $5,000, but the city has
, 0 other ideas for the area which in-
lent in tie l ^ c ^ u ^ e making it into a mall area, corn-
area was eit: |lete with benches and a roof over
tofthecivife street. This would probably cost
people outil! taxpayers about $130, OOO.
the unempt: 1 David Mogford, owner of the
4 4 p erffi ; liThirsty Turtle, said his business is
r set farther back from the street than
the other bars and doesn’t have ac-
ivnientlevelr ce ss to Patricia Street. Therefore, he
her this yen' doesn’t support the idea. He said he
tober 1919 A lights should be added to Uni-
mploymeut. versity Drive because it’s extremely
iral wage ail r^d to see people in the street,
leased 2,2|E * The City of College Station is con-
rtember!«: - Cernec i with the bars breaking city
epresentsi ordinances.
ifacturingil City Planner Albert O. Mayo said
95 percent most these businesses violate at
least one ordinance. These establish-
ds reporters ments were ^ )u ^ t before the city
/duringtk: -Ordinances were written, he said,
ither gained I ' therefore they are classified as a non-
i labor force:
Stabon area
Thirsty Turtle to 1966 and Duddleys
Draw to 1959.
Another problem Northgate
businesses could face is what to do in
case of a fire. Many of the bars are
overcrowded, especially on
weekends, said Fire Marshall Harry
L. Davis.
Davis said the danger with over
crowding is that too many people in
the businesses tend to block fire ex
its. He said on March 6 he issued one
of the bars a citation for overcrowd
ing. Fines for this offense can be up
to $200.
Canter said the Dixie Chicken has
been cited once, but “it (the citation)
was thrown out of court. ”
Davis also said he wasn’t sure what
the legal capacities for the buildings
are because the Dixie Chicken has
been expanded and because records
are not up to date.
Most of the owners know the legal
capacities. Canter said the capacity
of the Dixie Chicken is 275. Sebas
tian said the legal capacity of the Ala
mo is 150, and he limits the number
of people he lets in.
Benning said,“We try to keep
limits on people. Duddleys Draw
has a capacity of about 200.” He
added that Duddleys Draw doesn’t
have much standing room. “Our
tables don’t leave much room for
standing customers.”
Mogford said the Thirsty Turtle
doesn’t have an overcrowding prob-
The only problem
with Northgate is that
it is a downtown to col
lege students, and be
cause of the “gas
crunch” many stu
dents walk over to the
businesses instead of
driving somewhere
else, causing a prob
lem with people being
out in the street. -Don
Gan ter, a Dixie
Chicken owner.
lem and that he doesn’t know the
Thirsty Turtle’s capacity.
A typical Aggie crowd jams into the Dixie
Chicken, one of several Northgate bars ex
periencing crowding problems. Some owners
Staff photo by Jeff Kerber
have suggested closing the University Drive
entrances to the taverns and opening on Patri
cia Street one block behind.
One of the businesses that has
done something about overcrowding
is the Dixie Chicken. Canter said the
business has expanded, and now has
more room for its customers. Miran
da’s, another bar, was purchased and
turned into a new part of the Dixie
Chicken.
Davis said this expansion has
helped. “Since they expanded it, the
Dixie Chicken doesn’t seem to be as
crowded as it was,” he said.
Davis said these buildings do not
have sprinkler systems for fires, and
if there was a fire, many people could
be killed.
Mogford said that although he
doesn’t have a sprinkler system, he
does have three exits. All of the other
buildings have at least two doors, he
added.
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It: “The Alamo was the first building
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tian. “I had to completely re-do it.”
He said it was built in 1926.
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