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Joined: May 18, 2003
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Dont sweat it Ben . You do "Custom" work and your motto is "I build stuff for you " . And that is what you did .A customer has a vision with money to back it and you create it . Thats what you get paid for and thats what keeps food on the table for your family . You are one of the lucky few who gets paid to do the stuff you love . And Ive seen you are gratefull for this .
I loved Disneyland as a kid and had great memories . I then took my kids there as they were growing up .I hadnt been there in 10 years but when I recently came back I was shocked by some of the strange things I saw. The Swiss Family Robinsons treehouse was now Tarzans treehouse . Tom Sawyers Island was now some sort of pirates island even though you had to paddle an indian canoe to get there. Or you could ride a paddlewheel river boat around the pirates paradise ( I still cant figure out how that ties together ) . And the Pirates of the Carribean ride should now be called the Johnny Depp ride . It didnt seem right but I had to make my peace with it . I couldnt get upset with the builders because they were getting paid by someone else to create something new . I still have the memories and Disney was just trying to build something to get the next generation to relate . My son is 17 and couldnt care less about a film called Swiss Family Robinson and how they whole family lived in a tree . What made me fell better is the things that did NOT change . Sure they threw in some new stuff but most of the park was still mine .
I dont drink anymore but the only time I hang out in bars is at these events . I love tikibars for the art as well and the escapeism it provides .But if someone didnt stand up and say "Damn the world, Im gonna create my own kind of bar " , we wouldnt even have tiki bars around . We would all be going to the purest form of western bars . They were called "Saloons" .And who wants to sit around drinking, playing cards , shooting off guns surrounded by dancehall girls and if we had enough gold nuggets in our pocket we could visit a hooker upstairs ? (What am i saying )?
Anyways Ben , you did a lot of high end work in there and created another steppingstone to the great tiki bars and restaraunts of our time . Maybe celebrities will start branching out more to the tiki circuit . After all , Johnny Depp did do a film at the Bahooka.
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