The Buckroe Beach Reggae Fest and it's Impications

CONFUSION,TURMOIL and a HELLA'GOOD TIME ...

a true fan!

 as Buckroe finds itself with record crowds while hosting The 4th Annual Reggae Fest yesterday. PARKING SPACE was the only  issue as the municipal overflow lot had runneth over by 12:30 or so and the on-street parking was not far behind .  Buckroe has 2 pay lots, 2ND st. PARKING(where all the cool people were parked) and an as of now,  unnamed lot on the same corner and together ,provide less than a hundred additional spaces. There simply wasn't enough room. And it didn't help that the overflow lot had about 75 of it's spots gobbled by mud and deemed unusable. Every available piece of real estate large enough to park a car on ,was full, from First St. to Fifth St. From Reynold's to Salt Ponds was gone,gone by 3:00.  By 8:00 the fields near Seaboard Ave. and Buckroe Ave. were nearly full. WOOO!!  Hampton's finest even shut down incoming traffic on Buckroe Ave, which made no sense and throttled business. It was still a good day for me but a bad day for those making that walk. 3/4 of a mile! That's 20 minutes of beating the street with Pat and Charley. Or Lefty and Righty if you prefer. Which is still less than half the time it took to drive it. Not even exaggerating. It took me 1 hour and 10 minutes to drive to 7-11 for cold beverages! NOT COOL. Buckroe and it's visitors seemed to take it all in stride as the Reggae Fest was a HIT! I have heard very few people complain. Yet. And I really hope they don't. You have to understand that the only data available was the prior attendance numbers and although I expected a 20% to 25% increase, which would have been rough but doable with existing protocols but I bet that the actual numbers show 175% increase!! WOW! It was definitely above and beyond the most extreme estimates and I can't blame anyone for that. Next year I plan to expand to shuttle service as needed. Or I'll rent out skateboards. Ha!

    

        Anyway..., I would really like to thank those parked @N. 2ND St. PARKING with patience, I absolutely APPRECIATE YOU ALL. Make sure you come back and rest assured that everything will smooth out as the summer progresses. 

2ND St. PARKING

       I am thankful for an incident-free weekend. NO INSURANCE CLAIMS WERE FILED WITH MY ADDRESS ON IT. And also that everyone conducted themselves as adults. I saw 0 fights, 0 arguments, 0 arrests. The Buckroe stereotype of 5 years ago is dead and the area is on the path to a great fiscal future, providing a better place for us to live, work and raise our families in and rebuilding the reputation of it's amusement park hayday. Beautiful.

     ALRIGHT, NOW TIME TO ANNOUNCE OUR WINNING RAFFLE NUMBERS!! 

 To show our customer appreciation, everyone that leased their bayview timeshare from  N. 2ND St. PARKING, on the corner of Buckroe Ave. and N. 2ND St. closest to the beach, was given a numbered ticket stub, the other half of that ticket has been thrown in a fishbowl totaling 61 entries. Pretty good odds!

  


  397741 is the winner of a WHAM-O Gripster Pro Boogie Board. 



 397740 is the winner of an IGLOO brand Beach-Cooler. 18x5x12 Insulated, Soft. Has pockets. Oh Yeah. It's PINK. 

 397752 is the winner of our consolation prize An 11-Function Pocket Knife with an LED Light and a Belt Holster. I actually sold a bunch of these on eBay and they're pretty cool!

AND NOW,FREE V.I.P. PARKING FOR THE ENTIRE 2014 SUMMER BEACH SEASON;  

397748

Congratulations to our winners and Thank You to everyone with a ticket. Claim directions below. 

  Next week is a new raffle and another chance to win, We now have 2 free parking winners, Jeff, our very first winner and now , ticketholder 397748. I have plans to expand N. 2ND St. PARKING to the lot across the street and if I succeed, I will raffle FREE PARKING every week!

Aww ,   How Sweet!!

I didn't get the girls' name but the purple dog..that's Bentley.

        

I've either been married too long or I'm just STUPID

    

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2014 Reggae Fest

my son, Noah. He was offering free honeybuns with every sale!
Ha! Too Pimp for 12!

Winners of May 18th's Raffle may contact me at dpulley77@gmail.com to claim your prize , if possible, attach a pic of the winning ticket and we will find a way to get it to you. TICKET MUST BE IN YOUR POSSESION TO CLAIM A PRIZE and ALL TICKETS ARE NON_TRANSFERABLE.


Dennis Pulley
Buckroe Beach Living
buckroebeachva.blogspot.com
120 Buckroe Ave
Hampton, VA, 23664