This is a rough drawing.
scale is approximate, but pretty close, I think.
This is a rough drawing.
scale is approximate, but pretty close, I think.
Building facts:
~Contruction time frame:
From conception to opening night, 100 days.
~Over 100,000 bricks:
enough for 20 "normal" homes
~The two longest bars
in the world: 333' and 303' of unbroken, oak bar top
~150,000 gallon water
reservoir: enough to fill two Olympic sized pools
~1.5 Acres of Oak in
it's bars, trim and panelling
~6,000 sq. ft. dance
floor: imagine 6 average sized mall stores.
..When Donny &
Marie played there, mgmt. realized that with so many people on the dancefloor,
the view from the tables was restricted, so they lowered the dancefloor 2',
within 48 hours.
~2,000 capacity coat
check
~Over 53,000 sq. ft.
of carpeting: it only took 16 hours to vacuum it all
~475 ceiling lights
~In the first 5 years,
they used over 2.5 million kilowatt hours of electricity
~450 tables and over
2,000 chairs and bar stools
~Over 21 miles of various
p.a. and electrical cable
~Parking for over 1500
cars
~2, 6 ton capacity ice
machines
~Renovations took over
600 gallons of paint. (the bigger, Canadian gal., that is)
Sales and Attendance
in the first 5 years:
~1.5 million people walked
through the doors during the first 5 years.
*In the
first year +, we averaged a nightly attendance of almost 3500.
*the above
figure includes over 5,000 bus loads of people
~394,291 pounds of beef
sold in the two restaurants
~187,000 Pina Coladas
~368,330 Zombies
~2,250,000 bottles of
beer
~871,269 orders of nachos
~almost 10,000 pizzas
~250,000 balloons
~50,000 flowers
In late '84, we, as
Randy Stewart &the Roadhouse Band, recorded two tunes written by R.S.
and sold them through the Souvenir Shop on a 45 rpm. single. Within
only a few, short months, we'd sold over 5,000 copies. (A few years after
leaving, a person who'd purchased the record informed me, and later showed
me, that the photo cover of us on stage had been used to run behind the opening
and closing credits of a porn movie. Good thing I'm the little, teeny
guy in the background of that picture! Ha Ha!)
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