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Today they started tearing down the Holiday Inn/Ramada/Howard Johnson's in Fredericksburg. We had some great times at that hotel. Unfortunately the hotel outlived its time. Here is a picture.


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Sad sight. Hopefully the construction crew are wearing masks
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Could it be that BG was the only thing keeping it alive?
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But the roof was like brand new!
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Well, we all knew that this is what needed to happen at the old Holiday Inn/Ramada Inn in Fredericksburg, VA where the Blue Gray show became THE best beer show to attend over the last twenty five plus years.

Man, if those walls could talk. How many of us found great items for our collections, sold great items, met and partied with our new-then-old best friends, drank too much beer, ate too much pizza (except me), got too little sleep, and angered our spouses by missing nearly every Valentine's Day for a stinkin beer show. But what a GREAT show!

Any of us that attended the show in the last few years knew that the place was a dump and needed to be either totally rebuilt or torn down. It had gotten to the point that our rate for the show was almost twice what the down and out folks of Fredericksburg paid on any other weekend of the year.

The "new" Blue-Gray show is now further north in a suburb of DC and thankfully at a newer and nicer hotel. I heard it was pretty good this year. The old Blue-Gray is now just memories and stories told by us dwindling old men with rose colored glasses.

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One of you better get over there and rummage through that pile!!! Irony would be if that place paid off in cans!!

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Senator Seebs wrote:Sad sight. Hopefully the construction crew are wearing masks


Yeah, I'm curious what sort of NASA-grade HAZMAT containment was used to depopulate that swimming pool. I trust its contents were incinerated on site.
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NEWS FLASH: the rusty bunch is being blamed for this latest incident
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Senator Seebs wrote:Sad sight. Hopefully the construction crew are wearing masks
I'd actually recommend Level-IV Biohazard suits.
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ANGRY GARY wrote:NEWS FLASH: the rusty bunch is being blamed for this latest incident
dang , we've been had !!
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Looks the same as before to me. Are you sure that's a recent photo?
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I heard the cockroaches were picketing for better living conditions! AG you need to get over it already!

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Someone should get that HoJo sign!!
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I wonder what happened to the old Lee Jackson statues.
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Dan B wrote: AG you need to get over it already!Dan B
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Rockbob wrote:Someone should get that HoJo sign!!
This is the hand of the last person to touch the HOJO sign
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That looks like the slim layer that was on top of the swimming pool
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where else could you uase the light from electrical fires in thefountain to guide your way
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CMD wrote:That looks like the slim layer that was on top of the swimming pool
Dave Wheaton and I were standing in the pizza line one Friday and discussing how thick and shinny the algae layer looked reflecting in the dim lighting. Really scary to think anyone actually stepped foot in that water!
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CMD wrote:That looks like the slim layer that was on top of the swimming pool
Dave Wheaton and I were standing in the pizza line one Friday and discussing how thick and shinny the algae layer looked reflecting in the dim lighting. Really scary to think anyone actually stepped foot in that water!
I remember seeing some dude actually swimming in that slime pond a couple of years ago. :shock:
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LC400 predicted that he was going to shove me in that water. He didn't realize that I was not a fellow Lilliputian
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Senator Seebs wrote:LC400 predicted that he was going to shove me in that water. He didn't realize that I was not a fellow Lilliputian
OK, I actually had to Google that. :smt021 :smt030
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Speaking of LC400, I remember at BG when the RB band was playing ,some girl came over to him and starting dancing with him while her boyfriend went to go get a beer. When he came back he got in LC face and with LC's hair trigger he gets all puffy like one of those fish and I thought both of them would end up in the pool

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CMD wrote:That looks like the slim layer that was on top of the swimming pool
Dave Wheaton and I were standing in the pizza line one Friday and discussing how thick and shinny the algae layer looked reflecting in the dim lighting. Really scary to think anyone actually stepped foot in that water!
You took the words right out of my mouth. Dan commented on the hand picture looking like that slime layer, and I was going to opine that I felt it needed more blacks, purples, and reds. Sort of like a sidelit oil slick infused with chunks of bio-cheese.

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The mold was last seen on I-95 trying to thumb a ride south.
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say, what happened to all those renovations we kept being promised were coming to the hotel? Or is this it??
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As bad as the hotel became there will always be memories that will be with me the rest of my life. MAINLY the smell every year as I walked in.
We should try making a B&G air smell freshener thingy to bring to the Thaw! :lol:


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potters66 wrote:As bad as the hotel became there will always be memories that will be with me the rest of my life. MAINLY the smell every year as I walked in.
We should try making a B&G air smell freshener thingy to bring to the Thaw! :lol:


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RIP Holidome, Ramada, Ho Jo"s. Fun times from the late 1980's until the early 2010's. But it was time. Blue Gray has moved several times before, it's part of the natural process.
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Well said Charlie! BTW, Quartman actually stole a brick from the hotel wall. He's going to put it on eBay. He has to have it decontaminated first, but I wonder how many "copies" will show up?

I ended up with the "Mugsy's Bar" sign after Spring Thaw. Funny that I developed a cough on the way home Sunday.

I heard the demolition crew found Mugsy inside one of the bar walls. That would explain the mold.
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