That I did not die or go into the witness
protection program nor did I abandon you fine folks....I have been very busy with the new construction of my restaurant, you can see photos at this link.... http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2115030375
I will try to catch up and post more often as things get a little less hectic....Man I
Miss you Folks....

Tony,

You have come a long way since the storm. Is the roof poured concrete? Hard to tell from the photos. The walls now appear to be 16 or 20-inch concrete block, which would pretty much make it hurricane proof--especially with all the reinforcement in the photos.

Good Luck, and I hope to visit before too long.

Gary

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Travlin' Easy

Tony:

Lots of photos! That construction reminds me of a building that was in Providence, Rhode Island not too far from where I use to live. The building was high rise low income housing built in the late 40s. The plan was to bring it down with an implosion in the early 90s. It became a media event, half the population of the entire state of RI was watching. Well there was so much reinforcement and concrete construction that the implosion just made a boom, nothing crumbled. Short story is they had to slowly demolish it with a wrecking ball.

Your building looks like it can with stand that kind of force. Best wishes and good luck to you.


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Hi Tony,


Good pictures of your rebuild. It will really be nice when you're finished. How long before you'll be up and running?

The construction methods are interesting. I especially liked the temporary ceiling supports. Good job!

Hey,man. Things have turned a little more positive on this end.....supposed to hear something this Thursday. I'll let you know how things are over the week-end or first thingin the week. Sorry for the indecision...it's just how these kind of guys are!


All the best..."lookin good".


Russ

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WOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!!! CLose to 1000 pics!

Looking good TOny!

Hi tony, nice to hear from you, glad its all coming together, we will still be coming over, awaiting passports, will email as the time gets closer,mike

Tony .... great to see the progress, man ... even if it was "step by step"
I gotta say we've missed you too, but it's nice to see you are doing good work ... I didn't have time to look at every pic ... which ones are YOU in ???

I too got a kick out of the supports ...'Hey, if you ain't got a 2 by 4, give me that small tree over there !!!' .....
Best wishes,
t.

Hi Toni,


I have e-mailed you a couple of times and it always comes back....

We're on Isla Mujeres in March for a week...

Maybe we have time to see you...

Send me an e-mail maybe if I reply to that it might work...

nlight@avenuecable.com

Eric



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That's looking great Tony. Glad to see things are looking much more positive for you.

Tony mads, here is tony,s site,also with forums, mike
http://www.tonyrome.com/

..... nice site . thank you ...
t.

Thanks folks...it's quite an undertaking for me, I can't hit a nail with a hammer....
however I will be spending more time on the forum as time allows.....again, thank you for all the well wishes.....I'll post more photos as we progress....
TR