Today I was having lunch in the breakroom with my supervisor and a couple of coworkers, she had told me that her son went to his first concert last night
(Thursday night) , he saw Miley Cyrus at the Brendan Byrne arena. she told us that her sons friends parents drove, I asked her did the parents go to the concert
with the kids or did they go to the waiting room, she said they went in with them.
Where I’m from the New York and New Jersey area , the arenas use to have
a waiting room back in the day, so let’s say some 16 year olds wanted to go and see
somebody like Motley Crue, Judas Priest, Ac/Dc the parents didn’t like that kind of music, at Madison Square Garden, the Byrne arena and the Nassau Colesium
use to have waiting rooms.
where you people are from did any of the sports arenas have waiting rooms?
do they still have them?
I was talking to a couple of my coworker upstairs at my 3:00 break and he was telling me that those places don’t have them anymore.
I’m 46, and have gone to my fair share of concerts over the years here in Northern California, and have never heard of such a thing. That’s not to say they don’t exist, but if they do I’ve never noticed one. In my experience, if you don’t have a ticket, you don’t get into the building at all.
My aunt took my cousin and I to see Metallica at the local ampetheater in the 90s, and she sat at the bar outside the gates.
Not aware of anything like this at our local arena (Quicken Loans) but I could be wrong.
Man, I haven’t heard anyone call it that in years. 
No kidding. Wouldn’t it have been a Hannah Montana concert, back in that day?
Yeah, I’ve never heard of a waiting room, either. When I was a teenager in the early 90s in the Midwest, parents would usually just drop the kids off and go do something else until the show was over. I remember a friend’s dad once watched the entire show when he found that he could see the giant screens from a certain place in the venue parking lot.
Maybe other areas like the Midwest didn’t have them. Maybe it just might
havebeen my area.