On Monday August 19th the Beer Parlour team headed over to the town of Eckville, for a visit to Billy Zee's Tavern in the Eckville Hotel. Chris and I had stopped in and introduced ourselves a few days prior. The owner and staff had lined up a bunch of locals to come out and tell us their stories, and get their pictures taken.
The hotel has been owned for the past several years by Billy Zaleski... hence the name. He was very friendly and cooperative, and we enjoyed meeting him. For this outing only three team members were in attendance. Arturo and Sharon had gone back home to Edmonton after the visit to the Grand Hotel. Natalia headed back home to Washington and Shawn and Lisa returned to the city. Margarit took the night off and stayed behind at the cottage. So it was just Chris and Connie and me this time.
We had a great time and met a whole bunch of locals. There was Helen, the former mayor of the town, that spent a lot of time in the tavern in her younger days. The waitress Lynne was really helpful and outgoing. Billy provided Chris with a good interview and lots of information. We also met Harry, one of the elderly locals, and Malcolm, the self-proclaimed town sheriff. I got film portraits of most of them.
I got a kick out of the vending machine in the corner. It was one of those claw machines that you could attempt to pick up a stuffed animal with. Mixed in with all the stuffies were two porno DVD's...!
This one goes down as a great success and officially becomes BP 17.0.
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