Quote:In PA we called it PERA. (Prudential Entertainment and Recreation Association).  

 

Oh...and in relation to Aerosmith.  They were horrible crowds.  I saw violence break out a couple of times and they started a damn fire with chairs in the middle of the damn arena.  I went to see them three times, you were almost guaranteed to be scared when you left.

 

One of the very few things I miss about that place.  Plus I was a PERA officer several times and we would always have an 'in' for tickets for just about anything.

 

It's getting damn close to 20 years since I've been gone.  Then again, I transferred down here with them in 1991...so there's that too.

 

I worked for them for almost 15 years.  Started out in Prudential Healthcare, and left when Aetna completed the purchase and shut down the data center here in town.  I was close to the person who ran PRAC here in Jax, so any time there was a good ticket opportunity, I'd get prime seats.  We also got great discounts for all the theme parks in the area.  One of the two times I had an opportunity to sit in a luxury suite for a Jaguars game, it was courtesy of PRAC. 

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