This was just a quick blog to throw
some thanks out to some of the people that have helped Every Bar in
Lakewood reach its current successes.
First off, many of our readers find out
about and read my blog through some of our local social media sites.
Lakewood's Patch.com has given me free
will to put whatever I like up since I came up with this idea. As
many as a quarter of my weekly readers read my latest adventures
through them. Plus, I used their directory to help put together our
original list of bars. Thanks Colin!
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| http://lakewood-oh.patch.com/ |
The Lakewood Buzz is a pretty cool site
that lets people post about things going on around Lakewood in a text
only format. I've found their readers to be amazingly friendly.
Check them out you never know the random Lakewood knowledge that
might pop up.
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| http://lakewoodbuzz.com/ |
The Lakewood Citizen has helped boost
my new Lakewood readers on occasion and have quite the active twitter
feed at @lkwdcitizen.
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| http://LakewoodCitizen.com/ |
The Lakewood Pillars and their annual
wing crawl helped me get out in the community early.
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| Pillars of Lakewood |
The Cleveland Scene Magazine's article
about me during my first month definitely kept me from feeling like I
was only writing for my family.
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| Scene Article |
A couple of the bars have been a big
help to the blog in both promotion and helping with other facets of
my work. Coincidentally, they also are some of my personal favorite
bars.
Bar #1, Mahall's 20 Lanes is always willing to
spread the word and has been very open to helping out in other
projects that I have been working on. I really enjoy their food and
beer selection. Mahalls also offers a lot of different things to
keep you occupied from bowling and games to benefits and concerts.
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| Bar #1 |
The Shamrock Tavern and Bane Boys was probably my biggest
surprise of the blog. Not only is their food great and bar full of
fun surprises but they are always willing to lend a hand to anything
I might need of them. I look forward to returning over and over
again, not to mention future projects they'll be involved in.
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| Bar #10 |
The Tarrymore Inn, especially their
bartender Cheryl, have been one of my biggest cheerleaders. They are
always spreading the word about my exploits. You should definitely
check them out for their friendly staff and patrons along with having
the best patio in Lakewood.
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| Bar #5 |
Donna Repasy, once the owner of the Screaming Rooster, was a promoter of the blog from the beginning and has helped out even after she lost her bird. Thank you Donna, you've been a good friend. Obituary
Special thanks also go out to Jammy Buggers, Mars Bar, World of Beer, The Patio , Bonnie and Clydes and the Harry Buffalo.
A bigger thank you goes out to all of
you. 80% of my likes on Facebook are from you guys liking and
sharing my articles and pictures. This has helped spread word about
the blog around the city and even the country.
Also, thanks for helping me make a
little money off the blog. For each blog that goes out around 5
hours of research, aka drinking and talking to bartenders, writing
and social mediating. So, when you read the blog, if you see an ad
that looks remotely interesting feel free to click it. This can help
me make additions, pay my graphic designer, get shirts available at
local bars and fund events.
Thank you to those of you who have
bought my shirts. Most of the price goes to the actual materials. I
have tried to offer shirts with ink and material that can survive
being washed after wearing them to all 53 bars. They won't be as fun
if when you're done the only thing you can see are the check marks.
I am looking for a local printer, hopefully that will cut a couple
bucks of the price.
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| Buy Shirts Here |
Johnny and Katie Vanderford have been
with me through most of the blog putting up with my crazy schedule
and my picture taking. This wouldn't have been nearly as much fun
without you both.
My biggest thanks of course goes to my
wife Kelly. She has supported me throughout this process and is
always excited to jump on the bandwagon of whatever crazy ideas I
come up with for Every Bar in Lakewood. Plus, without her the shirts
would look horrendous and everything would be covered in comic sans.
Thank you, Kelly, for coming with me on this crazy journey. I love you.
Thank you beer. You have been with me through all of this. All full of frothy, alcoholicy goodness. This blog couldn't happen without you.
I have a couple new things in the works, so by the time we hit the 1 year mark I'm probably going to have to put up another one of these. Till then thank you for reading. This has been a fun crawl so far and it makes it worth the work to know you're all enjoying it.
