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Camping Out For Riverbend?

130 views · Published 10 December 2012 · 2:03 · Indexed 25 October 2026

Channel: WTVC NewsChannel 9 · 2012 · News & Politics

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by Alyssa Spirato  With Riverbend 6 months away-- people are waiting to see who's going to open next year's big event on the Coca Cola stage. But others are waiting for something else. For Best Buy, hundreds waited for the clock to strike 12 on Black Friday to snag the latest deal. But down here on Chattanooga's riverfront, they're waiting for their own best buy on the the water.These people want Riverbend's top spot on the waterway. And they know if they want it, it's a sacrifice. L.B. Shipley is the first person in line. He's been at Marine Max since Monday. "We know we're crazy for doing it. I mean it's just something you have to do to make room for your friends that are not down here helping us," says Shipley.From tarps, to lawn chairs, to cornhole, dozens gather each year to snag their favorite waterway spot."This is the only month that we're crazy enough to come and actually camp off and freeze your butt off which it's not cold this year," says camper Mary Burton.But Friday morning when the clock strikes eight, don't expect fist fights and pepper spray."Friday morning there might be cause we've been here a long time but we're all friends and get along," says Shipley."All the boaters love it, it's such a part of Riverbend that they want those spots so bad that they'll come down here as you found out started camping," says Marty Puryear with Marine Max.But Shipley says if you're thinking of coming down.."Everybody stay home so that we can not come out here so early," says Shipley.

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