sundance bar in parker

[rawdaddy]

Must be a younger crowd here I guess huh, no names???? NSF

Wasnt it showdown saloon at one time?:boobeyes:

 

[stoker22405]

someone with money imo should buy it and re open it or rebuild it knock it down something. i did have some good memories probably seen more boobies there than any other spot on the colorado river

X-2

 

[BajaMike]

The lower left upriver portion was open for a while a few summers ago. I sat in there and ate $2.00 tacos and had some "bartender special" drinks with some friends. The whole place was open to walk through. Pretty crazy inside.

What a waste. Someone will have to take a huge loss for it to be a money maker again...

Yea, it seems like a waste of a great hunk of river real estate......:blah::rotflmao:

 

[where's my keyes ?]

No. Isn't and never has been Indian land.

Septic is/was a mess. When we were Yuma County (pre-1984) the building inspection process wasn't too great up here in the north part of the county. (Not to mention that a bottle of spirits might as well have been listed on the inspection check-off form.)

The septic was never upgraded from the capacity for the "small" Rum Runners, which was essentially a doublewide trailer on a pier, to capacity for Sundance as it is now.

It was in the process of being re-zoned for Condos, but by changing the land use, the "grandfather" provision for septic would be lost. The new owner was looking into installing a treatment plant and later selling it to the Buckskin Sanitary District when they got up to that phase, but he had to have the re-zone approved before he could determine how big a system he needed. He tried for "high density" which would have allowed up to high number of units and building height, but the neighbors objected, so he then tried for "medium density" which would have larger units but fewer of them.

He was in the middle of negotiations with the neighbors and the county when the bottom fell out of the RE market, and the concept lost any hope of profitability. Now he just wants to unload it. At $4.5 Mil, I believe he'll still take a hefty loss, even if it sells for the asking price.

As far as septic, it would have to be removed and totally upgraded before anything could be opened there, but as long as it stays commercial, the septic will fall under the "grandfather" clause, but would take mucho work and money to bring it up to specs.

this said 'proposed-owner'/ G.C. was a builder we do/did quite a bit of work for here in the OC, back in the day !!! we even got a set a plans for the 18 condo's to put a bid price for all of the hvac !! according to the 2 local real esate agents, it's the hardest piece of property to negociate with on the whole enitre strip ---- it's still good to nick around !! him and his brother were priceless when they invented the "PETER-METER" -- how they never trademarked that phrase and/or patent that "meter", is beyond me ?? :bash: SINDANCE FOREVER -- (shirts rd)

 

[RyanPartridge]

We've got some old VHS home videos of the ski shows they had at Sundance back in the 80's.

It's my uncle Greg, Mike Mack, Tony Klarich, Mike Murphy and others trick skiing for crowds hanging out on the docks. Gotta get em onto dvd soon...

We've also got old Sundance hats and Macho Man trophies uncle Greg won.

First boobs I remember seeing as a kid were on the Sundance pontoon cruising by.

 

[Duffster]

Partyed at that place many times back in the 80's and 90s drinking two for one upside down Coors Lights with the girls dancing on the bar.

And I see it today and wow their has to be a ton of rat turds by now.

 

[riversteveo]

First Place I ever shot-gunned an Ice Cold Coors Light in the early eightes at the age of 14.......Good times.

 

[waterhorse]

I too remember the 2 for 1 and sometimes 3 for 1 beer specials at Sundance, the beers were opened upside down with a tool so that they could tell if someone brought in their own. If I remember correctly, Sundance would compete with the 'Rock Palace' on the beer specials and :boobeyes:T-shirt contests. I'll say it again, very good times:thumbsup
Also, does anyone remember a movie being filmed at Sundance?? Sometime around the late 1980s ??

 

[linus3]

Still have "HUBBA, HUBBA, HUBBA" stuck in my head from the shuttle boat:champagne:

 

[wUTwZAT]

someone with money imo should buy it and re open it or rebuild it knock it down something. i did have some good memories probably seen more boobies there than any other spot on the colorado river

This thread is now useless without pictures. :grumble:

 

[triangleman]

Saw them at the sandbar on sunday afternoon.

 

[Wheeler]

Here's a picture from a couple days ago.

 

[RiverDave]

Looks like that floating cabana thing is about to become detached and float down the river..

Man I feel sorry for the poor guy that runs into that thing in the middle of the night.

RD

 

[OCMerrill]

Looks like that floating cabana thing is about to become detached and float down the river..

Man I feel sorry for the poor guy that runs into that thing in the middle of the night.

RD

You know we try and take care of river pollution now a days, not sink cans to discard (Like back in the 70's), pack out the trash, don't pump out nasty bilge water, etc. and this thing is left to drop shit in the river at will.

I 100% Don't get it.


And your right this is an accident waiting to happen. A foreseeable accident that should be dealt with now.

 

[coz]

Looks like that floating cabana thing is about to become detached and float down the river..

Man I feel sorry for the poor guy that runs into that thing in the middle of the night.

RD

Where the hell are the city inspectors? do they not have code violations there pertaining to health and safety issues? someone needs to report that before it does come loose and kills someone. They can go after the owner of the property, I use to do it all the time when I worked for the city of Anaheim. The owner and the city could be sued if someone gets hurt or killed.

 

[BoatCop]

Where the hell are the city inspectors? do they not have code violations there pertaining to health and safety issues? someone needs to report that before it does come loose and kills someone. They can go after the owner of the property, I use to do it all the time when I worked for the city of Anaheim. The owner and the city could be sued if someone gets hurt or killed.

What City?

Anything on the waterfront is out of COUNTY and State jurisdiction. It's all permitted by the Army Corps of Engineers. They HAVE been notified of the condition, but you can see what that's accomplished.

 

[TPC]

If ya ever want some introspect (is that even a word?) on how feasible it would be to re-open as a bar Kennie of the desert bar has quite a take on it.

You'd have to buy it cheap, put in a lot of sweat equity,, deal with Lick-her license issues,, perhaps try to buy new or transfer a new license to rid it of the warts from the old one,,, even then AZ blue laws and the close-by neighbors would haunt ya,,

It would take a shit storm of will power and cash to get it fired up again.

Two types of bars.
The under 30 bar and the over 30 bar.

Under 30 has the fights, stabbings murders,, and that's just here in Simi.
Over 30,, well,, it has it's problems too, but Sundance would be under 30 for sure and every incident would drag in the neighbors who have lately become accustomed to the relative peace and quiet.

 

[OCMerrill]

If ya ever want some introspect (is that even a word?) on how feasible it would be to re-open as a bar Kennie of the desert bar has quite a take on it.

You'd have to buy it cheap, put in a lot of sweat equity,, deal with Lick-her license issues,, perhaps try to buy new or transfer a new license to rid it of the warts from the old one,,, even then AZ blue laws and the close-by neighbors would haunt ya,,

It would take a shit storm of will power and cash to get it fired up again.

Two types of bars.
The under 30 bar and the over 30 bar.

Under 30 has the fights, stabbings murders,, and that's just here in Simi.
Over 30,, well,, it has it's problems too, but Sundance would be under 30 for sure and every incident would drag in the neighbors who have lately become accustomed to the relative peace and quiet.

I think it's way past this stage. It should be cleaned up and made safe. I'm just sayin.

 

[reb939]

What City?

Anything on the waterfront is out of COUNTY and State jurisdiction. It's all permitted by the Army Corps of Engineers. They HAVE been notified of the condition, but you can see what that's accomplished.

what about the sinking toon? you would think the water districts down river would be interested to know there is a sinking boat leaking gas / oil into there water supply

 

[TPC]

Looks like that floating cabana thing is about to become detached and float down the river..

Man I feel sorry for the poor guy that runs into that thing in the middle of the night.

RD

Lately it's been us.
Another reason to watch your speed at night.
This stuff never seems to detach during the day,, it always seems to be at night.

 

[BoatCop]

what about the sinking toon? you would think the water districts down river would be interested to know there is a sinking boat leaking gas / oil into there water supply

When it first began to sink, we got a hold of Jim (who owned it then) and had him and Nick remove the fuel tank. It just has a small outboard on it and only had one 5 gallon portable tank.

The one (and only) thing we had the power to do anything about was pollution. By capping the septic and removing the fuel from the boat, they mitigated that problem. It's now out of our hands.

 

[Wheeler]

Lately it's been us.
Another reason to watch your speed at night.
This stuff never seems to detach during the day,, it always seems to be at night.

And why would the tweaker's be working during the day? :hmm

 

[Ryphraph]

What City?

Anything on the waterfront is out of COUNTY and State jurisdiction. It's all permitted by the Army Corps of Engineers. They HAVE been notified of the condition, but you can see what that's accomplished.

The levys in N.O. were their responsbility too... Look how that turned out.

Ryph

 

[stupidgirlgenius]

What happend to sundance - sad story- ruined lives - still in legal battle. Greed and a whore. Manipulation and lies

Sundance Conspiracy - The Real Story

The Twins that had owned it last and one of there girlfriends that f**cked everyone. Did you? What ever happened to that ho that screwed my husband.

http://www.sundanceconspiracy.webs.com