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medicated_in_PHL t1_je259xu wrote

Reply to comment by JBizznass in Is there any sort of tiki subculture in the Philadelphia area ? Not seeing much of any tiki bars on a Google search by CVM525

What’s the story with the owner?

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JBizznass t1_je28bg1 wrote

Tommy Up was well known to be a slime ball in every way.

Also he Didn’t pay his bills: https://www.phillymag.com/foobooz/2017/05/05/tommy-up-yachtsman-bankruptcy/

He even asked for donations to open up his for profit business in the first place which pissed off a lot of people: https://www.phillymag.com/foobooz/2014/04/22/fishtown-tiki-bar-the-yachtsman-kickstarter-tommy-up-pyt/

That being said I had lots of fun at the Yachtsman back in the day. If it had been run better and made it to current levels of Fishtown gentrification it would be all the rage.

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jmedennis t1_je2b4bw wrote

Lolllll wait, I think I'm Facebook friends with that guy (we had a ton of mutual friends 10 years ago) was he the one who owned PYT?

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