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Pay cover once, get into 5 Oregon District bars with new wristbands
Oregon District bars are coming together to keep patrons into their businesses.
Beginning Friday, April 2, five live music venues will offer a shared wristband that will allow customers to enter all the bars after paying just a $3 to $5 cover at one.
“This is definitely a way for all the smaller venues to band together,” Dublin Pub owner Steve Tieber said. “We are not necessarily competing with each other, but we are in competition with Cincinnati and Columbus and some of the (Dayton) suburban areas.”
The Dublin Pub, Trolley Stop, Tumbleweed, & Blind Bob’s and the new Side Bar, which is scheduled to open soon, will participate in the “Oregon One Stop Bar Hop” initiative. Oregon Express does not plan to take part in the program.
Wiley’s Comedy Club will offer the wrist bands to its customers, but will not honor them due to the different cost of admission, Tieber said.
The program will greatly reduce the cost of a night on the town, Tieber said, noting that Newcom’s Tavern, Ned Pepper’s and Sloopy’s dance clubs stopped charging a cover for admission about a year ago.
“This has been talked about for a long time,” he said. “It a result of listening to what the costumer wanted… You might be out 20 bucks before you buy four beers.”
Tieber said the music venues will lose about 10 percent at the door, but will more than make up the profit through food and bar sales.
“The greater picture is that we are creating a situation that will entice people to come to the Oregon District,” he said. “Dayton in general has to think about how to keep people in the city.”
What do you think?
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By kayboyd65
March 29, 2010 1:57 PM | Link to this
Diane, what were you reading because her article doesn’t start out like that. Do you just not have anything else to do than slam others. Get a job!
By Bravo
March 29, 2010 2:31 PM | Link to this
This has been a long time coming! Way to finally get all your heads together in the OD. This is a great idea. Now go PROMOTE IT!!!!!
By joke
March 29, 2010 3:11 PM | Link to this
As long as the musicians don’t take the hit from this, great. I doubt that’s the case, though. Each of these bars pays musicians differently, some a guaranteed fee, some work for the door, or in the case of Blind Bob’s - a split of of the door with 4 bands and a sound man. Hey, maybe the Art Galleries will join together and just give away free art? OR maybe the district will eventually only have bands that are willing to play for less and less money - this has been the trend over the last few years. Thanks to Joe @ the OE for sticking to his guns!!
By Sleepy
March 29, 2010 3:13 PM | Link to this
What about the net loss to the bands playing at these venues who often play for a portion of the take at the door? Doesn’t seem to add up for everybody.
By Dave
March 29, 2010 4:39 PM | Link to this
Wow! What a great idea and glad to see it actually has come to fruition too. Cheers to everyone for seeing the bigger picture and working together. PS - I’ve lived downtown for three years, blocks away from the OD, and have yet to personally experience a single crime.
By munchie
March 29, 2010 5:37 PM | Link to this
somebody else at the newspaper wrote about this last week so i knew all about it. you peeps should read your own stuff. this is ridiculous
By Henry
March 29, 2010 5:56 PM | Link to this
Munchie, How can you read when you can barely write? Learn the correct way to start and end sentences.
By Lisa
March 29, 2010 7:18 PM | Link to this
At Blind Bob’s the bands get all the door. We pay the sound guy. Sometimes it’s 3 bands, sometimes 4. They usually do fairly well.
By Street Preacher
April 1, 2010 10:17 PM | Link to this
You can come listen to the Gospel for free Across from Ned peppers. See you there! No more bars when Jesus returns to judge the world in righteousness. Repent and believe the Gospel. John 3:16