Dothan City Civic Center — Attraction in Dothan

We attended the medical school’s graduation commencement ceremony this month and one from our group lost his wallet. We searched and called to no avail and left Dothan without the wallet. Several days later, the owner of the wallet received a call from the Civic Center’s front office informing us that they had found the wallet! After searching through the ACOM student directory (which made their investigation harder as the student’s last name did not match the owner’s), calling our local police department based on the driver license, and finally finding the Wallet Owner’s phone number, they said on the phone that they would be happy to mail the wallet to us. Wallet Owner insisted they use the cash inside his wallet to cover shipping costs and they appreciatively declined, saying that was covered by them! They were incredibly kind, they went above and beyond, and they truly made our day as they helped out a stranger just to do the right thing. Not a single card or dollar was missing from that wallet! They were honest, professional, and courteous. Thank you to the incredible, wonderful, and warm staff at the Dothan Civic Center’s front office and all who came in contact with the wallet and treated it with integrity, respect, and concern. Thank you to whoever found the wallet and turned it over to the front office! We are all so touched and grateful that you all went SO FAR OUT of your way just to return a wallet to its owner. It would have been so easy just to throw it away, quit halfway while searching for the owner, or even use the money inside to ship it back to us. It means so much to us that you did not do the EASY thing, but the RIGHT thing. Kind strangers still exist and they are at the Dothan Civic Center!!!...

Went there for The Marshall Tucker Band show. All the promotions said 7:00, I figured that was the doors time. Also, nothing stated there were two opening bands. The opening bands were really good. I didn't realize the show started at 7, so with the bad directions from google and time it took us to find parking we got in about 7:15. We missed about half the first band.

The acoustics to the building are pretty good.

Parking was impossible until I found the over flow lot up the street and then we found ample parking.

The people that worked there were all pleasant. Some of the other arenas we have been to always seem to have the people with a chip on your shoulder. We were thanked for coming, we were thanked for throwing away our trash before leaving. We were sandbagging at the merch tables before leaving giving the crowd time to disperse. The guy working the door was impressed that I brought my teenage daughters who were probably in the top 5 or 10 youngest there to a band that old.

The only issue I had with the place is the seats are not set up for big people. The floor seats were folding chairs, so glad I didn't have to sit in those for the show. We were in the front row of the balcony which I thought had some extra leg room but at 6'5 and 350+ lbs. It was a tight fit. I kept pinching my sides on th arm rails which dug into my sides all night. The girls who don't have a weight problem at all said the seats were kinda small. So before everyone says lose some weight... I am working on it.

The venue is a two hour drive from us. Of course the shortcut route google took us on took short of 3 hours.

We are working on getting ZZ Top tix...

Recently worked Dothan AnimeFest and overall was bad. Organizers said 6ft tables, arrived to find 8ft tables supplied causing a rush to go buy coverings for a larger table then was planned for. Concessions ran out of burgers an hour into lunch. There was no staff managing queue lines for Voice Actors causing congestion and blocking off an entire row of artists. Mixing vendors and artists on floor causing congesting and blocking of some tables. None of the seating areas were open causing attendees to only have the floor in the halls to sit and rest.

Worst incident of the entire convention was a young boy, around 9 years old, was walking around trying to sell a $90 blind box to anyone he could claiming his parents grounded him and he could get ungrounded if he sold it. Another vender said the young boy told them it was so he could get adopted. During breakdown a middle aged balding man identified himself as this child's father started a verbal altercation with multiple artists and said he was staff and threatened he would prevent any of them from working at the con when told making your child go around and sell items like that was irresponsible and wrong and illegal, considering everyone selling there had to pay for a one day state license. He said he had to do that cause he couldn't get a table. He continued to shout and curse at people as he walked away. Staff was notified but nothing seems to have been done.

Overall if you're a local then attend, if you are travelling any distance I would discourage working or attending...