{"id":14275,"date":"2013-08-19T13:28:04","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T18:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=14275"},"modified":"2013-08-19T13:28:04","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T18:28:04","slug":"bardogs-5th-anniversary-alley-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/19\/bardogs-5th-anniversary-alley-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Bardog’s 5th anniversary alley party"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was Bardog Tavern’s 5th anniversary. To celebrate, Aldo threw a huge alley party, which was preceded by the Breakaway-Bardog 5K race. Both were to raise money for St. Jude. There were reported to be at least 1025 people who ran, which means that probably just the race alone broke last year’s total raised of $30,000. I got to the party at noon and found it to be expanded this year, with Monroe Avenue blocked between Front and Main to expand the party into the street.<\/p>\n

I didn’t take as many pictures as usual, because I wanted to concentrate on having a good time with friends. Here are some of the best of the pictures I got.<\/p>\n

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Okay, that concludes “the best” of the photos, i.e. “photos with tube tops or tube top dresses in them.” Now, here are some of “the rest” of the photos:<\/p>\n

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Bama Lawdog<\/p>\n

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Terrell working the Italian ice cart<\/p>\n

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Nice to see one of MPD’s finest win one of the Fat Tire bikes that was raffled.<\/p>\n

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The Nuh-Uh Girl taking the Fat Tire bike for a ride. She seems to be looking for a pawn shop.<\/p>\n

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Soon-to-be-open restaurant Dejavu around the corner brought some jambalaya for party-goers to try. It was delicious. Can’t wait to have some more in the new restaurant.<\/p>\n

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The alley, where there were beer stands, VIP tables, a dunk tank, and a meatball eating contest.<\/p>\n

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Uncle Ray enjoying a cigar<\/p>\n

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Not exactly sure what is going on here.<\/p>\n

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Special thanks to Jimmy AKA “Scratchy” for the use of his alley for the day.<\/p>\n

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The raffle<\/p>\n

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Suzy with strategically placed stickers. These were a good idea because I saw Suzy earlier in the day, and she appeared a bit, shall we say, chilly.<\/p>\n

Full album (44 photos) here.<\/a> What a great party, and boy did the weather cooperate. Low 80s in August is a treat for sure. Thanks to Aldo and all the people involved with Aldo’s restaurants for being such a wonderful part of our Memphis community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was Bardog Tavern’s 5th anniversary. To celebrate, Aldo threw a huge alley party, which was preceded by the Breakaway-Bardog 5K race. Both were to raise money for St. Jude. There were reported to be at least 1025 people who ran, which means that probably just the race alone broke last year’s total raised of … Continue reading “Bardog’s 5th anniversary alley party”<\/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\/14275"}],"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=14275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14291,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14275\/revisions\/14291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}