Neon Museum Vist

I have to tell you, a few days ago, Lisa and I did one of the things that seemed the coolest event of the year. If I had a ‘Bucket List’ there would be line drawn through it for this event. She and I went to the Neon Boneyard in Las Vegas.

I’ve always wanted to go there, however, generally you have to make an appointment and they have to approve you for it, but she spotted a three hour open house on Twitter. (Thanks, Lisa.) I tried to take some of the boys there one other time, but there were no spots open for months later, so we went to see the ones that were downtown and open to the public. Check out that photo gallery on www.PartyWithBrandon.com.

Now for the new photos though. Take a look at the 100 and some photos I snapped while walking around the restricted area. …most of them are totally random and of nothing but the former glory.

I did some quick research and gathered that the actual address is not public, but um, hello, you can identity it on person and on Google Maps. I also found out that YESCO owned many of the signs and the land that the museum is on. Tricky, but cool. Thanks, YESCO.

What ruminants of the shiny Las Vegas lights do you see in my photo gallery?
I see:

1. Stardust
2. Caesar's Palace (…one of my favorites.)
3. The La Concha Motel
4. The Barbary Coast
5. The Golden Nugget (It looks like a few incarnations.)
6. The Algiers
7. Las Vegas Casino
8. Binions (I am not sure though.)

I wonder if you can spot anymore that I missed though. Please help me identify as many as we can in the comments below.

One of the current items that I chuckled at is that I think the new company logo for the museum looks like one of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and their habits. The logo is actually the moved hotel lobby from the ‘La Concha’ that is under construction to be turned into a tourist welcome center. I think that was by where the Rivera is now.

Want to find out more? I totally did. Check out http://www.neonmuseum.org/orhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Electric_Sign_Company.

If you have the opportunity, I totally recommend taking advantage of any opportunity you may have to see such a unique place to honor Las Vegas history as it burns out, but does not disappear.

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Bartender Cheat Sheets

I came across these bartender cheat sheets the other day as I was thinking about learning something new. ( It looks like I even wrote notes on what the letters on the drink gun stood for. ) I mean, I sure as heck don’t know what is in most drinks I see out there. Could you tell a bartender how to make your favorite drink?
I was a bartender once ages ago during Mardi Gras in New Orleans. It was awful. I didn’t know anything about the bar. I do remember a few things though.

• Someone ordered a, “Madras.” I looked at him and asked him, “…like the kind you sleep on?” (I thought he said, “Mattress.”) Now I know and would pour him some vodka, cranberry and orange juice.
• One guy ordered a, “Gin & Juice” and I asked what kind of juice. #FAIL
• One night, someone asked for a “Black Bitch” and I thought he meant the cleaning lady and told him she didn’t come in ‘til the morning. Oops. Now I know that a “Black Bitch” is cola and vodka. …and that a “Skinny Black Bitch” is diet cola and vodka.
• Another guy ordered a New Orleans Hurricane and didn’t know what the fuck to do. I just looked at the well, picked every alternating liquor out of the well tray and then added orange and cranberry for the color. I didn’t hear a complaint. He could have died from that concoction though.
• I just kept praying that as anyone approached the bar, that they would order a drink with the name of the ingredients in it, like “Red Bull and Vodka.” …and that I wouldn’t panic and ask something like, “What’s in that 

Call Brandon Baker to host your next bar. *wink*

How To Piss People Off

I came across this post from awhile back that I is not my own, but some of the items made me laugh. ...others might make me cry.

1. Leave the copy machine set to reduce 200%, extra dark, 17 inch paper, 99 copies.
2. In the memo field of all your checks, write “for sexual favors.”
3. Specify that your drive-through order is “TO-GO.”
4. If you have a glass eye, tap on it occasionally with your pen while talking to others.
5. Stomp on little plastic ketchup packets.
6. Insist on keeping your car windshield wipers running in all weather conditions “to keep them tuned up.”
7. Reply to everything someone says with “that’s what you think.”
8. Practice making fax and modem noises.
9. Highlight irrelevant information in scientific papers and “cc” them to your boss.
10. Make beeping noises when a large person backs up.
11. Finish all your sentences with the words “in accordance with prophesy.”
12. Signal that a conversation is over by clamping your hands over your ears and grimacing.
13. Disassemble your pen and “accidentally” flip the ink cartridge across the room.
14. Holler random numbers while someone is counting.
15. Adjust the tint on your TV so that all the people are green, and insist to others that you “like it that way.”
16. Staple pages in the middle of the page.
17. Publicly investigate just how slowly you can make a croaking noise.
18. Honk and wave to strangers.
19. Decline to be seated at a restaurant, and simply eat their complimentary mints at the cash register.
20. TYPE IN UPPERCASE.
21. type only in lowercase.
22. dont use any punctuation either
23. Buy a large quantity of orange traffic cones and reroute whole streets.
24. Repeat the following conversation a dozen times.
    “DO YOU HEAR THAT?”
    “What?”
    “Never mind, it’s gone now.”
25. As much as possible, skip rather than walk.
26. Try playing the William Tell Overture by tapping on the bottom of your chin. When nearly done, announce “No, wait, I messed it up,” and repeat.
27. Ask people what gender they are.
28. While making presentations, occasionally bob your head like a parakeet.
29. Sit in your front yard pointing a hair dryer at passing cars to see if they slow down.
30. Sing along at the opera.
31. Go to a poetry recital and ask why each poem doesn’t rhyme.
32. Ask your co-workers mysterious questions and then scribble their answers in a notebook. Mutter something about “psychological profiles.”

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