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For Gulf Coast Tourist Businesses, Spring Break Is A Mixed Bag

KUT 90.5 | By David D. Brown,
Michael Marks, David Brown
Published March 14, 2018 at 12:38 PM CDT
Jos脙漏 Lopez, one of the co-owners at Gordos American Eats in Corpus Christi, Texas
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Jos脙漏 Lopez, one of the co-owners at Gordos American Eats in Corpus Christi, Texas

From .

Spring break is a time to relax and get away for vacationers, but it鈥檚 a make or break season for businesses along the Gulf Coast. And that鈥檚 especially so this year, as the region tries to rebound from Hurricane Harvey. So we at the Texas Standard made a few calls. We asked a basic question 鈥� how鈥檚 business?

Quentin with in Port Aransas gives spring break a B+:

鈥淲e鈥檙e not too bad right now鈥othing crazy. The beaches were pretty packed the other day. But a lot of the restaurants are still rebuilding and trying to get up and running to how they were before.鈥�

in Galveston is too busy to talk:

鈥淲ell, we鈥檙e slammed at the moment.鈥�

in Corpus Christi is doing well:

鈥淲e have been pretty much full for the past five days. 鈥�

Cheryl Cuzco owns  in Rockport. It鈥檚 open for business, but she鈥檚 a realist about the town鈥檚 long recovery:

鈥溾�y this time you would see children up and down Fulton Beach Road and it鈥檚 not there.

I did well after the storm. I was the first one to open up the doors.

We were blown to kingdom come. You can鈥檛 bounce back鈥eople thought we could just be back in a few months. Too many rules, too many regulations. It鈥檚 not gonna happen.鈥�

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David D. Brown
David D. Brown is executive producer and host of the award-winning cultural journalism program Texas Music Matters at NPR affiliate KUT-FM in Austin. He is former anchor of the award-winning public radio business program Marketplace, and a veteran public radio journalist. He has reported national and international affairs for Monitor Radio from bases in Atlanta, Boston, London, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C.
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David Brown
David entered radio journalism thanks to a love of storytelling, an obsession with news, and a desire to keep his hair long and play in rock bands. An inveterate political junkie with a passion for pop culture and the romance of radio, David has reported from bases in Washington, London, Los Angeles, and Boston for Monitor Radio and for NPR, and has anchored in-depth public radio documentaries from India, Brazil, and points across the United States and Europe. He is, perhaps, known most widely for his work as host of public radio's Marketplace. Fulfilling a lifelong dream of moving to Texas full-time in 2005, Brown joined the staff of KUT, launching the award-winning cultural journalism unit "Texas Music Matters."