Campus Bar and Grill - A-
To start off our date, we headed to Campus Bar & Grill on 9th street to eat. The building is slightly elevated, and so there are stairs that people need to take to get inside the building. Fortunately, it has a ramp that also leads into the building that our date can use. Inside, the restaurant is spacious, with many places to sit. It helps that our date is happening in the daytime on a weekday, where unlike on the weekends at night, it is a lot less crowded. While at Campus Bar & Grill we can have a nice decently priced meal, watch a sports game on one of the flat screen TVS, and even enjoy an alcoholic drink if we wanted. Since we will be spending some time here eating and drinking, then the question of using the bathroom would come up eventually. The bathrooms have a good deal of space and they also have the bars near the toilet for any needed assistance, so they could be compared to handicapped stalls in other places. Overall, we felt that Campus Bar & Grill was a fairly accessible place for a date. However there was one place that was inaccessible, and that was the rooftop area, which can only be accessed by going up a set of stairs. In the case of nice weather, eating outside on the rooftop would be a nice option for a date, but it doesn’t get to be an option for us because of its inaccessibility.
Ragtag Cinema - A
To start off our date, we headed to Campus Bar & Grill on 9th street to eat. The building is slightly elevated, and so there are stairs that people need to take to get inside the building. Fortunately, it has a ramp that also leads into the building that our date can use. Inside, the restaurant is spacious, with many places to sit. It helps that our date is happening in the daytime on a weekday, where unlike on the weekends at night, it is a lot less crowded. While at Campus Bar & Grill we can have a nice decently priced meal, watch a sports game on one of the flat screen TVS, and even enjoy an alcoholic drink if we wanted. Since we will be spending some time here eating and drinking, then the question of using the bathroom would come up eventually. The bathrooms have a good deal of space and they also have the bars near the toilet for any needed assistance, so they could be compared to handicapped stalls in other places. Overall, we felt that Campus Bar & Grill was a fairly accessible place for a date. However there was one place that was inaccessible, and that was the rooftop area, which can only be accessed by going up a set of stairs. In the case of nice weather, eating outside on the rooftop would be a nice option for a date, but it doesn’t get to be an option for us because of its inaccessibility.
Ragtag Cinema - A
After grabbing
some lunch at Campus Bar and Grill, our date moves on to Ragtag Cinema, housed
in Uprise Bakery, to catch a matinee. The building has a slight slope up to the doorway, making it possible to enter with a wheelchair. However, it lacks an
automatic door that can be opened by pushing a button. Once inside, there is a
spacious row open between its many tables and chairs making room to head to the
ticket desk. The desk is situated low enough that it makes buying tickets while
in a wheelchair doable. The ticket desk also noted that audio options for those
who are hearing impaired are available.
Ragtag’s theaters seemed spacious enough, but anyone in a wheelchair would likely have to arrive early enough to get a spot at the end of an aisle since the rows are a bit narrow. The theater did have large couches in the front of the theater with plenty of space around them, so it would likely be easy enough for someone to move from their wheelchair to the couch and be able to leave the chair next to them for when the movie ended. Ragtag also had wheelchair accessible bathrooms with bars on the walls and plenty of space.
Sparky's - B
After a movie,
we move on to Sparky’s for some dessert. Sparky’s entrance also had a slope up
to the door and the building seemed spacious enough to maneuver easily. The ice
cream displayed was low enough for anyone, sitting or standing, to get a good
view of while deciding in line, but if someone wanted to try a sample, the
counter to reach over for that was too high. The register also seemed could
have been lower to make paying for ice cream easier in a wheelchair. There were
no public restrooms in Sparky’s.
Private time in Hudson Hall - A+
After dessert, it’s time for private time. Amy lives in a single room in Hudson Hall, so she had the down low on its accessibility. There are two different ramps to access the building and automatic door openers for all of the doors inside and out of the building. An elevator is available to get to each floor of the building as well as a separate one to get to Rollins Dining Hall. The single rooms are especially spacious and obviously have plenty of privacy. Each floor also has wheelchair accessible bathroom and shower stalls.
Overall, we found that planning out the date didn’t seem too difficult. To us, downtown Columbia seemed to be pretty compliant with disability accessible needs, even in buildings that are older, like Sparky’s location. However, having to scout out places ahead of time to make sure they were accessible was a new experience for us. We found that it made us look at the locations we visit everyday through a new lens of accessibility.
-Katie Link, Alexis Kenney, Amy Hutson, Rachel Lira
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