Evening Club Bridge Is Dying (2015)
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Evening Club Bridge Is Dying (2015)
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Re: Evening Club Bridge Is Dying (2015)
#2My favorite game in high school and college, which I played twice a week, at one of the clubs in Bucharest, until 1983, when sometimes in the fall Elena Ceausescu issued an order to close all clubs and remove all mentions of bridge, from all media (we used to have weekly articles published with games analysis). The (un)funny way I found out about this was by my going with my partner to play, one night, and finding the club closed, with absolutely no trace of tables or other items we used to have, up until the session of a few days earlier. After having waited for a while, someone came by and we asked what happened, to which the answer was "There isn't and never was such a thing [bridge club] here! This is a chess club! What are you guys talking about?". Calling late in the night, from my house, the (ex)admin of the bridge club, his answer was very clear: "Don't call again, and don't mention this in public". And that was the end of bridge clubs in Romania (until after 1989). After this we resorted to "mini-clubs", at friends' houses, with up to 4-6 tables, and duplicating like in real tournaments ...
Re: Evening Club Bridge Is Dying (2015)
#3My favorite game in high school and college, which I played twice a week, at one of the clubs in Bucharest, until 1983, when sometimes in the fall Elena Ceausescu issued an order to close all clubs and remove all mentions of bridge, from all media (we used to have weekly articles published with games analysis). The (un)funny way I found out about this was by my going with my partner to play, one night, and finding th…
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Re: Evening Club Bridge Is Dying (2015)
#4I wonder if the pastimes in the USA that are most at risk are, on average, ones where you cannot use your phone and get exciting photos or video to post on your social media. After all, people are still meeting in groups to do things like hiking or cosplay, where they can present a glamorous image to other people via social media.
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#5I wonder if the pastimes in the USA that are most at risk are, on average, ones where you cannot use your phone and get exciting photos or video to post on your social media. After all, people are still meeting in groups to do things like hiking or cosplay, where they can present a glamorous image to other people via social media.
I doubt this is the cause. Certain hobbies just grow and shrink. You could get plenty of social media photos photos of lawn bowls for example, but that’s still an aging audience.
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Re: Evening Club Bridge Is Dying (2015)
#7I wonder if the pastimes in the USA that are most at risk are, on average, ones where you cannot use your phone and get exciting photos or video to post on your social media. After all, people are still meeting in groups to do things like hiking or cosplay, where they can present a glamorous image to other people via social media.
I doubt this is the cause. Certain hobbies just grow and shrink. You could get plenty of social media photos photos of lawn bowls for example, but that’s still an aging audience.
What confuses me is there are more old people than there used to be. So in theory "older people stuff" should be thriving. But lots of hobbies / activities / associations are percieved as dying off as elderly members are not replaced. I wonder why.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
I doubt this is the cause. Certain hobbies just grow and shrink. You could get plenty of social media photos photos of lawn bowls for example, but that’s still an aging audience.
What confuses me is there are more old people than there used to be. So in theory "older people stuff" should be thriving. But lots of hobbies / activities / associations are percieved as dying off as elderly members are not replaced. I wonder why.
It’s more generational than age specific. It’s not like you turn 70 and now have a burning desire to play croquet. I have no interest in cars but retired boomers can seem to talk about nothing else.
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#9I wonder if the pastimes in the USA that are most at risk are, on average, ones where you cannot use your phone and get exciting photos or video to post on your social media. After all, people are still meeting in groups to do things like hiking or cosplay, where they can present a glamorous image to other people via social media.
Poker is as un-photogenic as bridge, but seems to be doing fine. Of course the demographic and venues it's played in are very different.
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#10bridge is dying. Period. Go/Weiqi/baduk is the game to go!