NASCAR Hall of Fame November Attendance Decline Not as Severe as Other Months in 2011
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NASCAR Hall of Fame November Attendance Decline Not as Severe as Other Months in 2011
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I respect your opinion, JJ. However, some folks should have been on board the Hall from the beginning who had some inkling of marketing and public relations - the two things most needed by this venture. Good broadcasters, historians and artists have their place, but the PT Barnum, Humpy Wheeler type, get the word out, create some spectacle, get in the news persona is desperately needed at the Hall IMHO before it totally sinks. I don't see that effort being made (at least publicly) to staff the place with the kind of folks who could reach the masses. I don't think that has too much to do with the City of Charlotte. However, I will grant you that the CRVA has been proved publicly to be a pretty crooked animal. The place needs a PROMOTER.
NASCAR Hall of Fame November Attendance Decline Not as Severe as Other Months in 2011
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I am certainly glad we are friends, Tim. I suspect it will be quite a while before we share a common opinion on this subject.
NASCAR Hall of Fame November Attendance Decline Not as Severe as Other Months in 2011
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My opinion is of a wonderful, poorly managed and marketed facility. It could have been different in the beginning if a staff had been assembled that knew what it was doing. Every day I resent further the investment by the Charlotte taxpayers in this white elephant. When the nomination and election process is handled in a manner different from today that assures pioneer hall of famers and when a staff is on board that knows what to do with a jewel, then I may pay my hard earned cash. But not until then. I know too much. Now y'all forced me to say it again.
NASCAR Hall of Fame November Attendance Decline Not as Severe as Other Months in 2011
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I refrained from saying all that... aren't you proud of me?
NASCAR Hall of Fame November Attendance Decline Not as Severe as Other Months in 2011
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November among hall's better months in 2011
By Steve Harrison
sharrison@charlotteobserver.com
Posted: Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012
The NASCAR Hall of Fame had 15,189 visitors in November, down 18 percent compared with the same month in 2010.
The hall lost $118,582 in November. A reimbursement from the city of Charlotte for certain maintenance costs reduced the loss to $65,904.
The November attendance, while down, was an improvement for the hall. In earlier months this fiscal year, attendance declines exceeded 30 percent.
In November, the hall had a number of high-profile drivers available for autographs.
For the first five months of the fiscal year, 86,196 people have visited the racing museum. In the first five months of last fiscal year, attendance was 119,576.
Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/01/11/2918657/november-among-halls-better-months.html#storylink=misearch#storylink=cpy
updated by @dave-fulton: 12/05/16 04:02:07PM
AIR CONDITIONING IN A RACE CAR????---Have you ever!
Stock Car Racing History
Wonder if it was bought used from Smokey??!!
AIR CONDITIONING IN A RACE CAR????---Have you ever!
Stock Car Racing History
The biggest problem Ken had was that he quit preparing. When Ken and Fred Rheinstein formed World Sports Enterprises, Ken was doing a lot of behinds the scenes selling and orchestrating of talent. He was lost in some production meetings before our Richmond races.
AIR CONDITIONING IN A RACE CAR????---Have you ever!
Stock Car Racing History
A little 1985 story from the Chicago Tribune on the subject of stock car racing and air conditioning:
A grammar lesson: CBS auto racing analyst Chris Economaki...
February 15, 1985
By Skip Myslenski & Linda Kay.
A grammar lesson: CBS auto racing analyst Chris Economaki is a self-appointed caretaker of the English language, a point he made at last year`s Daytona 500 at the expense of network sidekick Ken Squier and stock car racing`s voluptuous beauty queen, Linda Vaughan. The scene was set when the air conditioning in the announcer`s booth broke down and Squier, after 15 minutes of suffering, yelled into his microphone: ``Truck. Truck. Get me some help. The air conditioning is busted.``
The first response he heard came from Economaki, who was wandering through the pits. ``Ken,`` he intoned, ``your English is abysmal. Your air conditioner isn`t busted. It`s broken. Linda Vaughan is busted.``