July 12, 2005

Player's haters

Posted by pete at July 12, 2005 4:44 PM

First Mad Dog and Beans closes down, now this (via Sarah):

The University of Texas at Austin is intending on purchasing Player's and replacing it with a parking garage. Across the street, UT is purchasing the stripmall that includes IT Copy and Radio Shack. Apparently, we really need a hotel there.

IT Copy or Radio Shack- we care not about. The hotel could be a great thing for the campus. However, once they try to take away a Player's Combo with cheese and no tomatoes with a strawberry shake, The University has gone too far.

We will be developing this project over the summer with an intended August rollout. Suggestions or comments- we'd love to hear them.

I wouldn't throw IT Copy to the wolves just like that, since they provided a nice alternative to the hegemony of Kinko's, but Player's...that's just inhuman. Many were the nights we'd walk back to campus from downtown (no, I didn't have a car, your point?) on Colorado and hit Player's for a burger (please disregard the above writer's condemnation of tomatoes) and a shake. That place saved my life.

Or, considering how crappy I feel the morning after a night of drinking and no food, they at least saved me from some nasty hangovers.

This is bad PR for the University, which probably wouldn't dare try the same thing with the Posse East. Next you'll be telling me they're going after the Hole in the Wall, in which case I'm gonna get a bat and pull a Capone on the Board of Regents.

I suppose there's no way they could condemn that Church of Scientology on the Drag?

>in which case I'm gonna get a bat and pull a Capone on the Board of Regents

lol

--Posted by flyno20 on July 13, 2005 12:10 AM

You want to talk about Playas and Haters? http://www.broodmoor.com/ now we can talk about playas and Haters, and boy would I love to hear your opinion on ^that^ Pete.

--Posted by Doug on July 13, 2005 7:11 AM

here is an online petition to save players: http://www.petitiononline.com/utplay99/petition.html

--Posted by boxing octopus on July 13, 2005 10:00 AM

That Scientology shit is still there? First Quackenbush's closes down, then Mad Dog and Beans. But the CoS remains. I got out of Austin at the right time. I found those idiots offering me "personality tests" more annoying than the Drag Worms.

If you tell me the "incense 20 sticks one dollar" guy is gone I'll really feel bad.

--Posted by szmike on July 14, 2005 3:05 PM



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