DCImonkey Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 U. of Penn. in Philly. It's a rough town... don't look anybody in the eye B) DCI All Eastern Classic was held there while A-Town was being worked over a few years ago. Finding warm-up spots was... interesting... Umm yeah, not sure which side of the stadium you are referring to, cause I walked to and from that show from my hotel (with valet parking) Nothing screams ghetto like a downtown Ivy League school :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kac Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 U. of Penn. in Philly. It's a rough town... don't look anybody in the eye B) DCI All Eastern Classic was held there while A-Town was being worked over a few years ago. Finding warm-up spots was... interesting... Sorry, but I'm laughing that you think an Ivy League campus is the ghetto. How far off of campus did they bring you to warm up??? Now if you venture too far from the Penn/Drexel areas then it could be a little scary, but right there is fine. It is difficult finding a place to warm up though- we had guard warmup in a cemetary right off campus there. Birmingham was really bad. I remember that the police had a radius set up for us as to how far away from the stadium we could warm up (maybe two blocks at the most) and a cop was near us that entire time. It was also the first time I had ever stayed in a school with metal detectors and signs posted about no handguns permitted on school grounds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CerpinTaxt Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 (edited) Our housing site in Denver for 2004 finals was in one of the worst parts of the city. The school had a razor wire fence around it and a policeman in the lot at all times. The school was pretty nice though, brand new lol. We've had some pretty shady housing sites though, especially when we were in Atlanta and Orlando. Edited June 25, 2007 by CerpinTaxt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoreyD Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 Orlando. You pass so many liquor stores and porn shops on the way to the stadium its unbelievable. w/Stp: Citrus Bowl......................I dont know if it was consider the "ghetto" in 91 but the Cotton Bowl is definately in a "low income" neighborhood part of Dallas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PRAng Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 Yeah....DCI 83 in Miami was just darn scary!!!! We had cops standing around us at all times when we were warming up. Yep - 83 at the Orange Bowl in Miami was the first one that came to my mind. I just remember that we had to go everywhere in groups and couldn't go very far away for warm-ups. We also had a pretty bad practice field location in Atlanta in 84 And I have a vague memory of being in a pretty bad area in Saginaw, MI one year as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dccorpsfan Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 Why is it that DCI has all these events in dangerous places? Aren't they concerned about the safety of their corps? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somerville Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 Along the lines of this many of the schools we stayed at in the south including Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama were generally dumps, in awful condition and in the nastiest neighborhoods. There would always be kids caught in the gyms trying to rip us off. The showers were always cold and unkept and there were a group of guys missing teeth watching us rehearse. I thought I was in a scene from Deliverance. Oh and the cockroaches are incredibly large in those states. Specifically, the dumpiest places were Baton Rouge, Shreveport, Jackson, Birmingham, Huntsville, Mobile some redneck cities in the middle of nowhere in Georgia and the panhandle of Florida. Are director always told the guys when we arrived at these places "take your earings out". You don't want to draw attention to yourselves". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somerville Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 FYI-U Penn is a very nice area. But if anyone has been to New Haven the city is a dump with the exception of Yale. I would definitely say Yale is an ivy league school surrounded by ghetto. 5 minutes off campus you are in the middle of projects. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohio Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 Gotta offer another view of the ghetto. 1975, tiny corps from Ohio staying in East St Louis, for the Alton Youth On The March competition (Sure wish I still had the T-shirt…). Arrived near midnight, in a neighborhood of boarded up and burned out buildings. At 17, I was the oldest in the corps and a couple of us stayed up the rest of the night as if we could protect the kids. Turns out our hosts, the Hornets(?), had a kind of perimeter around the youth center we were in. You can’t imagine two more totally different cultures, but they made sure we didn’t have any issues in the neighborhood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfh5001 Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 really not gonna beat a dead horse, but that area of philly is pretty beautiful (the campus at least). i'm from philly...however if you were about 20 minutes south of that, then yes I can definitely see how that could have been a problem :D in 2005, crossmen stayed at archer city high school (i think?) somewhere in Texas (probably archer city). I know that that was the show site where a LOT of kids got stuff stolen by the local students. That might have also been the place where the football team came into our gym at 7:00am yelling and screaming on their way to practice...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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