Most nauseating prom venue ever:

[LibDemAlways]

The Reagan Library.

Several local high schools are having their proms there. I feel incredibly sorry for those kids. One of the nights they'll always remember, and they are stuck spending it at St Ronnie's mausoleum.

This is an area with a Hyatt and a Four Seasons, both with super nice banquet facilities. There's a country club near the library, also with plenty of room for dinner and dancing. What the hell were those school administrators thinking? :puke:

[Lil Missy]

1. I wouldn't promote Hyatt either.

I've heard too many horror stories about the slave-like conditions that the office in Omaha has to work under. Management there are totally incompetent, and treat employees like shit.

[LibDemAlways]

3. I've attended several events at the Hyatt near me, and

while I agree that corporate-owned hotels can suck, I think being forced to spend my prom night at the Reagan Library would definitely be a major downer.

I just used a couple of examples of hotels in the area to make the point that Ronnie's palace is far from the only option. And, since it smacks of repuke politics, it really is an inappropriate choice.

[LeftyMom]

2. It's probably cheaper to rent.

Or they don't want to use a hotel, for fear that students will rent rooms for afterparties.

[LibDemAlways]

4. I've noticed that not using a hotel for prom is a trend around

here. The school my daughter goes to is having its prom at a mall in downtown LA. They apparently close off the storefronts and use the atrium for dancing. I checked out some students' comments about it from last year and they were all agreed that it was stupid to get decked out to go to a mall.

If kids are going to rent a room, they'll head for a hotel after the prom regardless. The school administrators are kidding themselves if they think having a prom at a mall or the Reagan Library is going to put a damper on their after prom festivities.

And, you're right...the Reagan Library is probably cheaper. But it's still a crappy place to hold a prom.

[LeftyMom]

5. My school's was at the downtown library.

They have a big ornate hall they use for fundraisers, etc, and it's a pretty fancy place to hold a dance, but it was really too small for our school, I was told (my date's prom was the same night, so we went to his instead. His was at an office complex, which sounds lame but there was a big outdoor area with a fountain, side rooms for the photo people, etc. It was an impossible area to chaperone though, and I know a lot of trouble was made- a great site from my teenage perspective, but as an adult I think it was a pretty bad choice.)

[LibDemAlways]

7. I didn't go to mine in 1970. It was at the Biltmore Hotel in

downtown LA. Even back then parents rented rooms for kids. When the prom king and queen's names were announced, the prom queen had to be summoned from a room upstairs. She was with her date and boyfriend, former Sen. George "Macaca" Allen.

[nomorenomore08]

8. Mr. Macaca himself? Are you freakin' serious?

:crazy:

[LibDemAlways]

12. Yep. I was posting here about what an a-hole

Allen was back then long before his "Macaca" moment. Among the facts about Allen that the media is well aware of but didn't publicize last year was his suspension from high school for spraypainting racist graffiti all over the walls. I realize that goes back many years, but it certainly is part of a pattern.

At any rate, he was between the sheets with his girlfriend upstairs at the prom when her name was announced as queen and she had to scramble back downstairs to the banquet room. The pictures are hilarious. Her hair is all mussed and she looks totally disheveled.

[OmahaBlueDog]

6. The hotel thing was leading to problems

Including "duh" -- the obvious one, and then what was also happening was kids were renting whole floors and holding something more than a party but not quite an orgy.

Also, many schools are now holding "party-after-the -prom" events all night long.

OT, I was just at the Hyatt in KC, and they were holding prom. It's sad when you look at a beautiful woman in an evening dress and realize your old enough to be her Dad. The Hyatt was the site of the prom and the after prom party. Another prom was across the street at Union Station.

[China_cat]

9. Time to go back to using the school gym

decorated in cheap crepe paper with a cheesy band and everybody going home starry eyed because it really was 'their' night.

[WannaBeGrumpy]

10. WTF?! I wouldn't go!

:wtf:

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

11. ugh. i'd be PISSED.

I had mine on a boat on the lake in my town, it was pretty sweet :) Better than the Reagan Library for sure.

[hunter]

13. Heh... you said "PISSED."

Who needs toilets when you've got the Reagan Library?

:yoiks:

[Initech]

14. High schools around my area have been doing proms at the Nixon Library for years.

But then again, this is fucking right-wing central where I live. :puke:

[LibDemAlways]

16. It's just wrong to force high school kids

to spend their prom night at a Presidential library. How can you have fun in such an uptight place? The Reagan Library got started as a prom venue when local Mormon parents refused to allow their kids to attend their high school proms, and arranged the Reagan mausoleum as an alternative. Now the public high schools have gotten into the act.

The Nixon library? I wouldn't set foot in there under any circumstances. These school administrators have a hell of a lot of nerve.

Most of Ventura County, by the way, is just as politically neanderthal as OC. We're stuck with a major asshole named Elton Gallegly in Congress. He gets re-elected every time with over 60% of the vote, even though he's nothing but a Bush ass-kisser. It's awful.

[Gormy Cuss]

19. I can think of a potential upside to holding a prom there.

Couples who manage to slip from the sight of the chaperones have a rare opportunity to screw over Reagan.

[LibDemAlways]

20. I'm sure they have a permanent cryptkeeper

stationed in front of his remains at all times to make sure no one leaves any bodily fluids or wastes in front of the tomb, and to prevent just such scenarios as you describe from being carried out.

It really is a genuinely creepy place. They have a volunteer corps of old pasty white guys who wear polyester sansabelt pants and white shoes, and a bunch of helmet-head old ladies who look like they are ready to burst into "God Bless America" at any moment. I got roped into going when my daughter's girl scout troop had an event there some years back. Never again.

[Rambis]

15. Hopefully

people will get shit faced and puke all over the place!

[krispos42]

17. Jesus Christ

I guess the local mortuary was booked?

And kids might fall into the open graves at the local boneyard, so that's out.



On a related note, now I have that Sam Kinison bit about Reagan after bombing Libya in my head...

[DaydreaminHippie68]

18. I'd have it outside

on a nice golf course or something like that or maybe just in a park. But that's just preposterous.