Post #52804 by Formikahini on Fri, Sep 26, 2003 11:04 AM

Yep, it's that Freddy! I'll take the credit for sending Sparklydevil (Sarah) to him when she asked for Detroit contacts here, and the bar IS beautiful (as is his whole HOUSE)!

Freddy was my traveling buddy for the closing of the Kahiki. What a perfect weekend. I buzzed up to Detroit on a Friday night. It was too late to do anything except down a few cocktails at his home bar and ogle "Bobo", the name he'd given the beautiful big Witco (in the photo) he'd just gotten for $100 at a local shop!!!

(Interesting note: Bobo was bought with the intention of being the center of attraction in the downstairs tiki bar, but as luck would have it, he was too long to find past the curve in the stairs!!)

Saturday morning, we stopped by the Chin Tiki so I could say I'd seen it, snapped some pics, then hit the road for Columbus and the Kahiki. That was my first tiki event with this gang, and the friendships founded that weekend have only gotten stronger.

Yes, how bittersweet that my first was the Kahiki's last, but I'm glad I saw it!!

Freddy's bar is now MUCH better than when I saw it, and he now has a FABulous woman with whom to enjoy it for ever: Amy of the Gore Gore Girls!

So there's your Freddy Fortune update, and I agree - he has only had cool bands! He gets Otto's Tiki Events emails, but to my knowledge, he never hangs out here. Our loss: FUNNY guy!