Atlanta tells customers to stay home.
The Atlanta City Council passed a resolution barring anyone under 21 from businesses that serve alcohol (excepting a few, such as groceries and restaurants). Their logic is, "Since a person under 21 can't drink in a nightclub, they should not be in these establishments." Balderdash.New York City had a rule (maybe still does) that you had to be 13 to be at the bar (sitting or standing). I know this because I was shooed away from the bar and back to my table a few times when I wasn't yet 13. I wasn't anywhere close to 13, truthfully. Bars serve food and they also show pay-per-view sporting events--that was reason enough for me to be there in grade school.
When I came to college, years before I could drink, I'd still go to bars and clubs with friends. I wasn't drinking but I was still able to have fun. It's a false assumption that the only reason people go to bars or clubs or such is to drink--they go to socialize and drinking is how the businesses are able to pay the bills.
Atlanta is working very hard to make the city unpalatable for anyone under 50. They're turning Buckhead into Disneyland with shopping malls and tourist traps. Midtown has been gutted and little local flavor remains, replaced by condos. An event center I frequent has been in a battle to get licenses for a larger space and is being battled by a group that doesn't want us there (the battle has been pretty harsh, with someone printing fake flyers advertising illegal events at the space).
I started going over to Decatur to drink. I don't have to deal with smokers, they pour later (though I'm rarely out that late anymore), and the city and county seem to WANT my business. Atlanta will quickly learn that the old farts trying to make the city quiet aren't willing to pay the taxes that the businesses provide.
Labels: alcohol, atlanta, decatur, government, politics
posted by Lachlan @ 9:25 AM
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