Who is the genius that thinks 2,000 seats are needed each day for first run movies? The free popcorn will probably do it. Let's see. if you have 3 showings a day and are open 7 days a week, that would be 21 times 2,000 - 42,000 a week? That's not workable if 100% of our population goes every week. And with 10 screen, you could go every week and see all 10 movies for 10 weeks until they start over with a new lineup. And of course we are a big movie-going town. No one here has ever heard of Netflix or Blockbuster and we have lot's of disposable income - especially those of us with 4 kids who want to each see a different movie. Sure hope the tickets are under $10.

Of course you have to consider a larger area than just PTC from which to draw, so if we enlarge the market area from Hogansville to Henry County, thats almost 400,000 people, so they would only be looking at getting 10% of the entire population to come every week. That's got to be it.

So which bank is financing this? What does one do with a theater after it fails? What did we do with ours by the way. Is that where Carraba's is?

and the economics make more sense..
You might have 3-4 300 seat theaters 3D capable and then several smaller ones for non block buster releases.. or for 2nd, 3rd and 4th weeks.

but you still need to have an enormous number of people coming out on a regular basis and I just don't see that from any of the areas within 20 miles of the theater.

And a 300 seat venue? Steve Brown and Harold Logsdon mud wrestling wouldn't fill that place. Dar Thompson stripped to the waist wearing spandex tights performing with Elton John - maybe, but you'd only want to see that once.

That is why it is being located in the boom docks--I wouldn't leave my teenager there.
We need a decent place right in the middle of town for them, where it is watched by our officials. (not just a popcorn selling place with a greasy floor and rats, but a real clean and supervised area and study center.) I know they don't want the responsibility but we need to give it to them!

I know that have you have been to a few county fairs and couple of goat "ropings" but where in the heck are the "boom docks". Is that something unique to PTC or perhaps Riverdale?

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I splained all that to some already on here. They are of course located on the beaches somewhere where ships unload and dirigibles.
I'll bet Savannah or Charleston have them.

Dirigibles? What in the "sam hill" do you know about giant floating rigid gas bags.
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"What in the "sam hill" do you know about giant floating rigid gas bags."

I can't think of anyone who would know more about this than old Bonker$.

He himself is a "giant gas bag", proving it on a daily basis here.

I have no idea if he can still float, but I'm guessing "rigid" ain't applied in decades.....

That would be our Bonker$. Bless his little pea pick'n heart.
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My guess is he doesn't know squat about dirigibles. As a general rule, I don't either, but specifically, I know quite a bit about one that was (and may still be) tethered via steel cable at Cudjoe Key, Florida. It had/has some special equipment aboard and at one time received some special support from a US Army Reserve Helicopter (I was involved in the support arrangement).

Yeah, that dirigible at Florida is probably one of those used for high communications!
Bet it was in the boomdocks too!

There already is a "decent place right in the middle of town for them, where it is watched by our officials. (not just a popcorn selling place with a greasy floor and rats, but a real clean and supervised area and study center.)"

Right in the middle of town!

It's called the library.

I for one am happy about the shorter drive to the movies, I don't go but my teenagers do. They're going to fill up that intersection with ugly big boxes anyway, better there than here.

Well you at least mentioned the library. Most just say "church work."

Now where in our library can one swim? Shoot a few hoops, have a locker, research your homework in a computer room with cubicles and print it out?

I don't think the library has inexpensive snacks. Does the library check one in digitally and out digitally so everyone knows if they are there or elsewhere?

The Bridge is run by the PTC 1st Baptist and right around the corner from City Hall. From what I hear it is the kind of place to hang, play hoops, have a latte and they encourage the youth.

Now just how many catholics, methodists, muslims and hindus do you expect to see there? And atheists and agnostics.

Are tongue-talking fundamentalists welcome? AMEs? They won't come unless you have some hot-stoves to pick up and some rattlers to handle.

By the way how much fun and socializing can one do in the library?
Are you allowed to whisper in this one?

Here is what Bonkers claims to need somehwere in the vicinity of City Hall in PTC-- a library study area, combined with an all weather swimming pool, combined with a snack shack with inexpensive candies and sweets, and a basketball court, and I assume a baseball field. A facility of this nature is cost prohibitive to build and would be a monster to maintain. The average citizen would not be able to afford its use.
At the library they can study, read, write, and eat and drink from a vending machine or a water fountain. You can also use the internet and print anything for a fee per sheet. Braelinn Rec has an area for ball and courts. And there are a couple of public swimming pools as well. Why do we need to build a redundant and costly structure?

No baseball field and you know it!

Can't afford it huh?
But we can afford four million dollar tennis courts primarily for adults (some adults), can't we?

We can afford police cars for every cop, can't we?

We can afford a few millions of dollars police station to replace a moldy one, can't we?

And I think now we have about 2-3 million dollars worth of cart bridges that developers should have paid for, not us.

What is it that some of you hate about kids? They are just like you.

Bonkers, I could ask you the same question about hating kids. You basically want to set up a nightclub/community center for kids 13-20 years old. I believe that it would be the worst possible thing for our kids-of which I have them and you most likely don't have any at that age. Our teenagers should be involved in family activities, supervised by adults or adults in a good proximity. A center where uninvolved parents can drop off their kids and abandon them there will cause all kinds of trouble. These kinds of hangouts for unsupervised kids never work well. They turn into a bullying house where the older teens prey upon the younger ones. It has turned this way and failed in three other cities that I have lived.
The government is supposed to provide policing power. I am not a fan of the tennis center. If it cannot turn a profit or break even, it should be sold to someone who can.

It's hard to imagine that.
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Bonkers was once a kid . . . yeah what a thought. In fact, hard to imagine some folks in this world were ever kids.

How are you doing? Now don't you have a honey do list on this fine Christmas Eve? You better get busy 'cuz wouldn't want Santa to find an unfinished honey do list! LOL!

I sent a Christmas email the other day and haven't heard from a one of you but our dear Tug.

man, that's sad,,,

not just a popcorn selling place with a greasy floor and rats, but a real clean and supervised area and study center.)

study center are you serious ? that's where every teen wants to go it's called HOME.

as I explained to jen above, study is just one of many things there to help.
Our adults go to bars, parties, vacations, anywhere they please---but teens.....we don't care.
They are our next "valuable" citizens!

Ever notice most colleges have what I described?

Even so, I see the PTC teens having parties, doing vacations (with families) and be everywhere in cars and golf carts. Colleges exist to serve this demographic. And a college is not a city. I struggle to come up with what else a 14 year old would need that isn't already here or that they would legally be able to do anyway. And have you figured out "Lock and Load" yet?

Welcome to the real world and growth. There are always problems with growth. But life is to short to worry about silly stuff like you posted above. And whats worse teen drivers or old farts driving through front windows of businesses because they cant tell the difference between a brake and a gas pedal. And drugs, what about all the drunks at y knot every night, they take their drugs every day and then drive home. So I guess the theater will be a great addition across the border. No Problem

FROM PEACHTREE CITY..

NOT EXACTLY THE ""BOOM"" or is it boondocks ?

Yes, BOOM docks.

An isolated part of the docks where blimps land and where ships are unloaded----way out.

Yeah in a great big parking lot out of town and the PTC police department jurisdiction!

Couldn't be more inviting for trouble!~

boom docks is not even in Merriam-Webster or Oxford as an accepted word.

boondocks has been around since the 1930's and means rural area or rough country filled with dense brush..

you see trouble afraid I don't ... of course when 20,000 cars go there in a week and there is 1 incident I am sure you'll use that as proof to make your case.

Boom Docks is not even used anachronistically to the times of the CCC. Boon Docks is the proper term. Admit a mistake and drive on.

Suggest that you check patent # 3972493 for dirigible docking device.
It is mounted on remote docks to land blimps and unload cargo ships.

I'm surprised that hutch hasn't seen them. They are particularily located away from everything since they often haul natural gas.

It is not Scandnavian.

It was however used in the "EDGE Chronicles" series of books about an unusual place.

Well? Boom Docks was never in the colloquial or anachronistic eras. The patent does not refer to "boom dock". And the way you used it does not convey any other meaning than boondock. Including a silly comic strip. Just admit it, codger, you screwed up.

Don't listen to him Bonk, use the Scandinavian defense, or is it excuse?

I yam what I yam....Popeye