If you’re looking for a conundrum, try figuring out how many people are in a large audience. Thunder Beach’s numbers change all the time. This past summer I was told by their General Manager that they have 80,000 bikes here over the weekend and have heard ranges in years past from 30,000 to 60,000. How do they know how many people are here? They make the numbers up, based on their best-guess estimates – it’s not real scientific.
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The Panama City Beach Seafood Wine and Music Festival dominated the weekend with thousands in attendance that enjoyed rockin music, awesome food and an atmosphere that was not only well organized, but also a blast. The promoters’ hard work and dedication definitely shined as beaming people all weekend told us how much better it seemed this year compared to years past.
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The CVB Board voted 5-0 on 7/1/08 to approve a request for $60,000.00 in funding for the Panama City Beach Seafood, Wine and Music Festival to be held October 10-12, 2008 (Columbus Day Weekend) at Frank Brown Park. Absent were Mayor Oberst, Yonnie Patronis, Rick Russell, and Buddy Wilkes. Mike Nelson voted via telephone. The festival will be promoted by a group including Jack Bishop, C.J. Ryan, and Steve Pizza. All board members involved in the discussion seemed very supportive of the festival and funding request.
Although the festival schedule is still tentative, the promoters currently anticipate the following festival elements:
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