{"id":1275,"date":"2007-10-02T21:25:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-02T21:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1275"},"modified":"2008-07-18T12:57:12","modified_gmt":"2008-07-18T17:57:12","slug":"pics-and-info-raifords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/02\/pics-and-info-raifords\/","title":{"rendered":"Pics and info: Raiford&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An anonymous source sent me some info and pics about Raiford&#8217;s, which will have its public grand re-opening Friday night.  Raiford, Paula and the entire staff will be back.  They will be driving the Caddies around Downtown Friday and making a grand entrance.  (By the way &#8211; the usual rule, which is to get to Raiford&#8217;s late, around 1 or even 2, does not apply Friday night &#8211; be there at 10 or you&#8217;ll likely be standing in a long, long line.)  They are working on getting Vance closed between Main and Mulberry Friday and Saturday nights, because it will be such a huge celebration.  I was sent some pics of the remodeling, much of which is being done by the man himself, as you can see below.  I&#8217;ve been told the inside looks quite authentic, but they have also made improvements over the old setup where needed (bathrooms).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/raifords1-713011.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block;text-align:center;cursor:pointer;margin:0 auto 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/raifords1-713006.jpg?w=840\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/raifords2-737610.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block;text-align:center;cursor:pointer;margin:0 auto 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/raifords2-737606.jpg?w=840\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/raifords3-786183.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block;text-align:center;cursor:pointer;margin:0 auto 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/raifords3-786181.jpg?w=840\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/raifords4-722143.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block;text-align:center;cursor:pointer;margin:0 auto 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/raifords4-722139.jpg?w=840\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><br \/>Good thing I didn&#8217;t throw away my disco party clothes when Raiford&#8217;s closed back in May.  Looks like my Disco Paul persona will make a return this weekend.  I&#8217;ll probably make a stop by the Saucer on the way there and freak out all the frat boys and meatheads who take that place over on Friday nights.  Guess it&#8217;s time to break out the platform <a href=\"http:\/\/www.endless.com\/b\/241993011?%5Fencoding=UTF8&#038;tag=paulryburncom-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\">shoes<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=paulryburncom-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> and make sure they&#8217;re in good working order.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/paul-raifords-730862.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block;text-align:center;cursor:pointer;margin:0 auto 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/paul-raifords-730859.jpg?w=840\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An anonymous source sent me some info and pics about Raiford&#8217;s, which will have its public grand re-opening Friday night. Raiford, Paula and the entire staff will be back. They will be driving the Caddies around Downtown Friday and making a grand entrance. (By the way &#8211; the usual rule, which is to get to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/02\/pics-and-info-raifords\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pics and info: Raiford&#8217;s&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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