Signed and commented! Every word you wrote is true! Thank You!
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "lightgrw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Tommy,
>
> AsburyMusic.com and Upstage are already ahead of ya! Hope we can count
> on your support.
>
> We've got an online petition up at:
> http://www.asburymusic.com/petition
>
>
> The Wonder Bar has been a huge supporter of Upstage Magazine from our
> first issue. The Wonder Bar and Upstage Magazine got going at around
> the same time. When we ran into financial troubles a few months after
> starting out, the Wonder Bar lent us the club for a very special
> all-day benefit show.
>
> In addition to helping us out, the Wonder Bar has been a host of
> benefits for just about every non-profit group in the area from the
> Boys & Girls Club to the Monmouth County SPCA. There have been some
> very special nights at the Wonder Bar - nights like the benefit for
> Sgt. Maurice Craft. So many people owe Lance and Debbie and the Pats
> for their support through the years. I'm hoping that everyone who
> benefited from the club signs the petition along with every artist who
> got the chance to play there.
>
> We can argue all we want about whether or not it's right to "save" a
> club, but this isn't just a club. The Wonder Bar is one of the best
> things to be redeveloped in Asbury Park during the last decade. They
> turned an ugly box of a building into a beautiful, prosperous
> restaurant/club. They've got regular crowds eating and drinking there
> every night all year long - that's not something easy to say in Asbury
> Park. Even with the construction of the past 6-8 months, people found
> a way to make it to the Wonder Bar.
>
> Why? Because they ran it the way the Stone Pony was run for many, many
> years. It was a family. The people who worked there and the patrons
> who visited there were all family. And the Wonder Bar is not just part
> of Asbury Park's family, but it truly has become the community center
> in times of need. You cannot replace all of the good the Wonder Bar
> has done for the town.
>
> Asbury Park deserves a place like this next to Convention Hall much
> more than a bunch of condos. If the Wonder Bar gets demolished and
> replaced with housing than we're pushing the knife further into the
> chest of Convention Hall and the Paramount. For those venues to be
> successful, restaurants are needed in that area. And since the Wonder
> Bar is a proven success, why not let it stay where it is?
>
> So, please sign this petition and hopefully we all can save the Wonder
> Bar!
>
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