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Last night the The Wharf in Orange Beach, (humongous new development) had The Mobile Symphony and fireworks at their brand new outdoor amplitheater. Really nice facility. The sound was good down front where our seats were.

Later, we moved to the upper aluminum bleachers for the fireworks. Up there, the enthusiastic audience's foot stomping along with the stirring marches became pretty loud and annoying...but maybe that only happens when there are a lot of children present.

One weird thing was the 'water police'...before we could enter the facility, every woman's purse was inspected and all water bottles removed. It caused a big bottle-neck. They have to re-think and improve this situation. If there had been beer or booze, that would have been removed too, but as you can see from the confiscated goods, ...no bombs, no handguns, no beer, mostly water and many of the bottles only half full. Water was for sale inside at $4 a bottle. The only thing that softened the blow was that a small % went to G.S. High School who was manning the concession stands. Beer and cocktails were offered as well.

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Anonymous said…
This pisses me off majorly. It is ridiculous to expect someone to pay $4 per bottle of water, when it is necessary to your health, and you can buy it for about a quarter at the grocery. Big gripe of mine at redbirds games. I buy one bottle, then fill it at water fountain (which are few and far between). When it is 100 degrees heat index, cut me some slack. Hell, let me in free if you're going to charge that much for a stupid bottle of water. This is insanity. Wait till they get sued when someone suffers heat stroke. Wait, I'm feeling faint...
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