Tiki Bar? Many people have been asking, why would the Delavan Art Gallery need a tiki bar? Well, many reasons. Tiki bars are this summers new must own item. P-Diddy, Justin Timberlake, and Brittany Spears all have invested millions of dollars to have their own tiki bars. Bill was at home watching MTV Cribs when he realized that he must have one, too. The next day he proposed the idea to Reggie and believe it or not, Reggie was thinking the same thing.
That day Reggie began drawing up blue prints for the estimated 1.3 million dollar tiki bar and began construction. Katie and Lacey then put the finishing touches on the bar and now it is ready to serve all. But then Bill had another problem, who is he going to serve? Then another brilliant idea struck Bill, a luau! Of course every tiki bar needs to be opened with a killer luau.
Everything written above was all in the mind of one of our wonderful interns, Ryan Petrus. What really happened was this: Staff had begun planning to close out the end of the current season with a great party. While brainstorming themes and ideas for the event, everyone came up with the idea of a luau. It also helped that the Gallery Manager Caroline had spent last summer living in Hawaii so she had a few ideas up her sleeve for all the amenities. Director Bill was away on vacation at the time, so the staff ran with different wild ideas on their own. They came up with so many of these, Bill couldn't help but go along with the whole plan when he got back.
Now every luau needs its own tiki bar. So where to find a tiki bar? Any of those we came across that looked anywhere near decent were at least $1000 and there was no way Bill was going to let us spend that much on something we may only use once. We asked around and no one had one that we could borrow or even rent. We were running out of options when we had another brainstorm. The amazing Reggie, who does so much at Delavan Center and Delavan Art Gallery, might be able to make us one. Caroline approached him and humbly asked, "Could you make us a tiki bar?" Reggie's response was, "What's a tiki bar and what does it look like?" Staff sprang into action and looked up some pictures for him and found a few rough plans to give him an idea of the look and measurements of the bar, and next thing we know, he's creating us our very own tiki bar. Only using the measurements for the height and width of the bar, Reggie had the rest all planned out in his head.
Just about everyone has had a hand in the creation of our tiki bar. Its coming together nicely and we will post progress pictures of it's creation and evolution soon.
The staff of Delavan Art Gallery
P.S. We are already working on ideas for future uses for our tiki bar.
That day Reggie began drawing up blue prints for the estimated 1.3 million dollar tiki bar and began construction. Katie and Lacey then put the finishing touches on the bar and now it is ready to serve all. But then Bill had another problem, who is he going to serve? Then another brilliant idea struck Bill, a luau! Of course every tiki bar needs to be opened with a killer luau.
Everything written above was all in the mind of one of our wonderful interns, Ryan Petrus. What really happened was this: Staff had begun planning to close out the end of the current season with a great party. While brainstorming themes and ideas for the event, everyone came up with the idea of a luau. It also helped that the Gallery Manager Caroline had spent last summer living in Hawaii so she had a few ideas up her sleeve for all the amenities. Director Bill was away on vacation at the time, so the staff ran with different wild ideas on their own. They came up with so many of these, Bill couldn't help but go along with the whole plan when he got back.
Now every luau needs its own tiki bar. So where to find a tiki bar? Any of those we came across that looked anywhere near decent were at least $1000 and there was no way Bill was going to let us spend that much on something we may only use once. We asked around and no one had one that we could borrow or even rent. We were running out of options when we had another brainstorm. The amazing Reggie, who does so much at Delavan Center and Delavan Art Gallery, might be able to make us one. Caroline approached him and humbly asked, "Could you make us a tiki bar?" Reggie's response was, "What's a tiki bar and what does it look like?" Staff sprang into action and looked up some pictures for him and found a few rough plans to give him an idea of the look and measurements of the bar, and next thing we know, he's creating us our very own tiki bar. Only using the measurements for the height and width of the bar, Reggie had the rest all planned out in his head.
Just about everyone has had a hand in the creation of our tiki bar. Its coming together nicely and we will post progress pictures of it's creation and evolution soon.
The staff of Delavan Art Gallery
P.S. We are already working on ideas for future uses for our tiki bar.
