Halloween

October 31st.  I left for Florida on Wednesday and Lucky and I drove to Dalton, GA.. got up Thursday and he and I made it to Lauderdale around 9pm last night.  Car wash, grocery and liquor store and now I'm hiding in the back of our tiny house here in Victory Park trying to avoid  notice for any trick or treater, how sad is that?
It's officially Fall at the Dunes.  Euchre and Pot Luck on Thursday, Karaoke on Friday, Music Videos on Saturday and Bingo on Sunday.  Monday we go to "winter" hours.. Mon - Thurs 2-10p, F&S 9a-2a and Sunday 9a-10p.  Can't believe how quick April - October went.  It's a reminder how quick life goes by - as I sit in the dark and hide in the back room (should rethink that, right?).  We really should get up everyday and do as much as we can before we go back to bed in the PM..  one day your 30 and then all of sudden your almost 50.. and I'm thinking that maybe I spent too many nights staying in and readying books.
Danny and Greg will be on the road tomorrow afternoon, arriving here by Monday.
BTW, I'm watching Twilight and swooning over Jacob -- I'm officially and teenage girl (he never has a shirt on)!

It's time to re-work the website.. as well as the mobile version.  We want to name the bars.  For 33 years the Dunes has been just that the Dunes.  The Disco, The Cabaret, The Game Room, The Pool and the Tea Dance Deck.. and back in the day the current Game room was the Bistro.  Fun fact, when Carl and Larry bought the Dunes back in the early 1980's they lived in the building .. what is now the Game Room, used to be the Bistro and before that a two bedroom two bath (with kitchen) apartment where Carl and Larry (and Carl's kids in the summer) lived.  Can you imagine living right in the middle of it?  They were troopers!  The things that must be done when you decide to start a business. C&L later moved to what is now the Wiley House and from there to Downtown Douglas.  We now have the Wiley House converted to 4 units that we rent.  Anyway, any suggestions about Bar names?  I need to name each venue and I'm at a complete loss.. suggestions always welcome.

Fun facts about the Dunes.  Back in the day it was a simple 22 room motel with a pool.  You drove up the car port (which is now the office and dance floor) and came in, checked in and there was a nice lobby bar.  The upstairs was an apartment and then there was a restaurant (current Cabaret).  The first year that C&L had the bar, they used the car port as the outside "mingle" place.  The very next year they built what is now the tea deck.   After the neighbors complained about noise, they created a dance bar in the downstairs (old game room, currently storage) - DJ and dance floor and a bar.  When they enclosed the Car Port and made that into the dance floor they had the cabaret downstairs with a spiral stair case that connected it to the restaurant.  Back in the day.. it was one of the best restaurants in all of Douglas and Saugatuck.  Cafe Sir Douglas.  When Carl and Larry moved out of the main building, the  apartment was reworked and turned into the Bistro.. So there was the main bar and dance floor (Called the Disco).  the three cash registers that are at the main bar are still named D1, D2 and D3 (the D being Disco).  We ran the restaurant for the first summer (totally a terrible idea - The Blue Frog - breakfast, lunch and dinner).. lasted from July to October.  That first season the Cabaret was still downstairs - the person singing could touch the ceiling - (that basement space had been the main dance bar, the cabaret and a leather bar back in the day) now it's just storage.  We often think about what we should do with it.. could be a fun space to create a version of a PV stripper bar??  Thoughts?

Okay, Dunes Rooms, Cottage 1-8 are all closed for the winter.  All the rooms in the standard building are off line till NYE:  Speaking of:


Time to make plans for NYE!!!

And I need bar name ideas!

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  1. I love reading your thoughts... Have a great break Jonesie and relaxxxx...... enjoy your winter/summer time off in the South, because before you know it... we will be at it all again. (breath) and focus on just you and your boys and lucky. You are such and inspiration to so many. xoxoxo

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