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Originally Posted by mets3007
Dont get me wrong I love Weirs Beach and this wont stop me from going there, but, i feel like I am stuck in the late 1980s or early 1990s with the way it looks, it needs to be updated, but I read the Weirs Action Committee likes the old fashioned look , so thats why it has not been updated, even though it could use a facelift.
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IMHO, the beauty (and I use that word very loosely) of the Weirs is that it's stuck in time. But it's not stuck in the late 1980s or 1990s (you're pretty young Mets, aren't you?). To me, it's stuck in the late '60s/early 70's because that's when I spent time there as a kid. So much is the same - that scary lady who'll give you your fortune for a quarter when you walk in to the Weirs Peir Arcade, the skee ball, the Old West rifle shooting game in the Half-Moon Arcade. My kids have enough glitz and modernity in their lives. For us, the Lake is about escaping into a simpler life. When we go there, they gravitate to the older-type games, not the more modern arcade games. And if I have to spend $30 on skee ball every couple of weeks to give my kids good old fashioned entertainment (and they love it!), that's fine. I went through a period where I thought the Weirs were terribly tacky (as stated earlier, the "Hampton Beach of the Lake") and didn't want anything to do with them, but then I grew up. The Weirs are great. I would miss it terribly if it dissapeared.