Someone once said, “time flies when you are having fun” and that is just what we have been doing at the O-Bars for the past 20 years. Just thinking about that is mind blowing because it still feels like only yesterday when we opened the doors at Landside… I remember I’m the one that didn’t lock the door one night before we opened to the public when leaving… I set the alarm and left the place unlocked… Jerry Yettaw arrived at 6am, saw my car in the parking lot (I won’t go into that here) and “assumed” I was laready there when he pulled on the front door and it opened… he got halfway across the dining room before the alarm started blaring… sure woke him up that morning before we opened in 1997. I look in the mirror and realize that it wasn’t yesterday, or last week, or even last month but 20 years ago… or 7,067 days.. So much has happened and so many stories are there too… I got my cat Bailey just a few months after we opened in 1997 and she was with us until this past November… thank God she couldn’t talk.. that’s for sure… she had plenty of stories in her memory… whew! We have loved every second of being a part of our wonderful community, 610,588,800 seconds to be exact, and feel blessed to have been part of so many special celebrations – birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, and many other life milestones. Who doesn’t love a party? Well, of course we do! And so we wanted to celebrate with as many of you, our awesome friends, as possible so we hope that you will come and help us celebrate on the 20th day of each month in 2017. One party just isn’t enough for a 20th birthday! |