Castaway Cove now famous!

It's official - our humble home bar, Castaway Cove is now famous! Portland's alternative paper Willamette Weekly listed The Cove as Portland's Best Backyard Tiki Bar in their Best of Portland issue! Big kudos to Frenchy (now Castaway Cove's official minister of public relations) for hooking us up with the article's author. I will attempt to scan a copy of the article to share with you all. Yipee!

Tikimaxton,
Congratulations. I am off to find a copy right now. I love this annual issue and now I can't wait to see it (which goes for "The Cove" also.) And on top of this you are consulting on Tiki-cinema! You are the envy
of this Portlander.

Congratulations TikiMaxton!

You deserve it. Your tiki bar is very impressive indeed. You have advanced the cause of tiki idolatry.

Thanks, Mrtikibar! Here's a scan of the article for those unable to get a copy of the WW:

castaway cove

[modfied the link since it wasn't coming through - hanford]

[ Edited by: hanford_lemoore on 2002-07-31 16:14 ]

Wonderful photo Maxton, Maggie and Frenchy! Hey Maxton, didn't your dad also write "The Pusher"?

That's right, Kailuageoff; also Never Been to Spain, Snowblind Friend and Greenback Dollar, among others.

I didn't know the writer was gonna pursue that angle. He called me a week or so after the initial interview to a confirm the rumor of my parentage. When he heard that dad had never visited CC I figured he'd just drop it...

TikiMaxton,
Would you please e-mail the article to me? I view posts at the web site and the attachment didnt come through there.

Thanks!

[email protected]

Patrick McNeal

[ Edited by: Biotron2000 on 2002-07-24 16:00 ]

FYI geocities has a webserver that can prevent embedded image linking (like what we do here all the time). If geocities sees too many referers it will shut down the link temporarily. The best way it to view it directly from Geocities website at:

http://www.geocities.com/maxton1/bestof2002.jpg

Hopefully removing the embeded link in Maxton's post will make it work better (I hope... getting around geocities is a unexact science)

~Hanford

Sorry about the picture link - I don't use that geocities page all the often and I forgot that they get all funky if you get too many hits. They want me to spring for the "deluxe" hosting package and I won't. Still, it's the only place I gots to upload stuff for free...

Thanks, Hanford, for bailing me out.

You can check out the online version of the article at
http://www.wweek.com/flatfiles/SpecialSection3013.lasso

The article is about 3/4 of the way down the page. Note that about a third of the way down is a blurb about Bamboo Craftsman, our local bamboo supplier and builder. Worth a second to check it out, especially if you live in the NW...

The Minister of PR comes through once more:

Go here: http://www.wweek.com/flatfiles/specialsection3013.lasso

And it's about halfway down the page, AND the photo is in color! :)

Aloooohaaa!

Way to go Maxton!

Castaway Cove, from the shots I've seen, is richly deserving of the accolades. Hmm, maybe a Miss Tiki Bar USA contest, with Castaway Cove entered as Miss Oregon?

So, about those Tiki Torches, can I still get two? I am running out of space, can barely move without hitting a "too expensive" mug, but they'd be great for my "Castaway Corner" ha ha ha. I want a bar here, but would have to go in the hallway to shake the cocktails.

midnite

Gremlins was just on TV the other day. Mark- I loved your father in that! (I'm being serious)

I love how his IMDB profile lists "Father Of Mark Axton" first. Soon it will have to read "Father Of Mark Axton- Owner Of The Greatest Home Tiki Bar in Portland"

Congrats on all of the above.

Have you read (or seen the film version of) "About A Boy" by Nick Hornby? Are there any similarities? :)

Nice work- your bar deserved wider recognition.

-martin

The link to the photo doesn't work with http:// in front of it, but seems to work if you type the URL without http:// into your web browser (it worked for mine)

http://www.geocities.com/maxton1/bestof2002.jpg

Copy and paste!

~Hanford