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Paul Hillgren - North Hollywood, CA USA
Eras Magallanes - Bangkok, Thailand
- I started collecting shot glasses in November 11, 2003, a friend went
to Munich in 2001 and gave me one shot glass as a souvenir then another
friend gave me one as well and it was 2 years after that I decided to
collect them.
- My first shot glass was from Munich, a Black Letter Times Font.
- I have 1,012 shots in my collection as of January
2008. I display all of them in shelves in my living room and bedroom.
- My favorite shot glasses in my collection are the
city shots series, they look good on my shelf and people who don’t understand my hobby
appreciate it because of the colorful designs.
- My favorite drink from a shot glass is water since I don’t drink at
all and just pretend to drink together with my friends.
- The coolest HRC related item I own that is not a shot glass is a
guitar shape business card holder from Bangkok.
- The first HRC I visited was the renegade café in Manila, Philippines.
- I have personally visited 12 Hard Rock Cafes and my favorite cafe is
Bangkok since it is my café for 10 years now.
- My favorite food at HRC is back ribs.
- I wish I had visited all cafes before they closed.
- I don't collect other themed shot glasses. I started with
Planet Hollywood and decided to get rid of them.
- My favorite sport is bowling.
- My favorite color is blue.
- I think life is incomplete without my family and friends around me.
- I have 1 brother and 2 sisters and I am on the 3rd rank.
- My Zodiac sign is Libra – well balanced.
- I am an advertising executive.
- The last book I read is Playing for Pizza by John Grisham, he’s my
favorite writer and I have a complete collection of his books.
- I hate cigarette smoke.
- I have one cat and his name is Guwapo.
- If I had a super power it would be something like Spiderman – dunno
why but I just like it.
- Something people probably wouldn't know about me: I used to play bowling professionally but that was years ago.
Check out Eras' websites:
http://rasrock.blogspot.com/
and http://rasrock2.blogspot.com/
Christoph Haase - Langendorf, Switzerland
- I started collecting shot glasses in 1997 because I thought them to be
a nice addition to my t-shirt collection that I started in 1995.
- My first shot glass was from …I don’t remember…
- I have about 1080 shots in my collection. I display all of them in 2
cabinets. I should buy one more, it looks way overcrowded right now.
- My favorite shot glasses in my collection are the frosted gold logo
shots, simply beautiful.
- My favorite drink from a shot glass is rum.
- The coolest HRC related item I own that is not a shot glass is a
beauty of a city tee from Puerto Vallarta.
- The first HRC I visited was the renegade in Amsterdam, followed by the
1st real café in Dallas, both back in 1995.
- I have personally visited 148 Hard Rock Cafes (plus 6 renegades) and
my favorite cafe is Bangkok.
- My favorite food at HRC is a tuna steak.
- The café I wished I had visited before it closed: all of them! But
Choctaw, Shanghai and Shenzhen hurt the most.
- I collect other themed shot glasses from Planet Hollywood, All Star
Cafe.
- My favorite sport is tennis and my favorite player is Roger Federer.
- My favorite color is dark yellow.
- I think life is incomplete without making your day, at least from time
to time.
- I have 0 siblings.
- My Zodiac: Capricorn – but I don’t care about it.
- I do this for a living: I’ve studied Cultural Anthropology, Political
Sciences and Linguistics. Now I work as a language teacher at an adult
education centre. I do a lot of administrative work too, like organizing
courses and marketing activities.
- The last book I read: Fatherland by Robert Harris
- I dislike hypocrisy.
- I have 0 pet(s). But I’d love to own a dog or a cat.
- If I had a super power it would be the control of time by using a time
machine, and by being able to act in almost no time.
- Something we probably wouldn’t know about you: I have a complete
collection of Swiss silver ounces. And oh yeah, I could live very
well without work!
Check out Chris' website:
http://www.arrakeen.ch/
JoAnn Faucheux - Joshua, Texas USA
- I started collecting shot glasses in about the year 2000, not long after getting
internet. I already had a few shot glasses that I had picked up along the
way.
- I cannot even recall what my first shot glass was.
- I have around 500 shot glasses. I have 2 curio cabinets full of them
and happen to have another curio that I have in layaway at the antique
mall that I work at 2 days a month.
- My favorite shot glass in my collection is the Orlando “No snowflake”
shot glass from the Winter Carnival pin collectors event that took place
in about 2003.
- My favorite drink from a shot glass is tequila, preferably Quervo
Gold.
- The coolest HR item that I own that is not a shot glass is a Crockery
style container with a cork in the top from Mazatlan. Not a real location
but it is pretty cool. Got it on e-bay. Looks authentic.
- The first HR I visited was San Francisco, in their old location on Van
Ness.
- I have personally visited 18 cafes and 2 hotels & my favorite is San
Antonio.
- My favorite food at the HR is nachos.
- I collect other themed café shots from Planet Hollywood, Fashion Café,
Rainforest Café, House of Blues, Harley Davidson Café, Motown Café, NASCAR
Café, All-Star Café and probably a few others that I can’t think of right
now. But, I have mainly been collecting the HR shots in the last 2 years.
- My favorite sport is basketball and my favorite team is the Dallas
Mavericks.
- My favorite color is red.
- I think life is incomplete without family & friendships. And don’t let
me forget - Marble Slab ice cream J!
- I have 1 brother, who is now deceased. Growing up alone “sucked!!”
- My zodiac sign is Aries and that does not make me stubborn…J
- I had not worked out of the house for 13 years till Sept. 1st of 2006.
I am now working for Kroger as a cashier/customer service person and it’s
not so bad. I love working with the public as long as they are nice.
- I seriously cannot remember the last book I have read, it has been
that long. But, the last movie I saw was Rush Hour 2. I love the Rush Hour
movies. Any movie that makes me laugh.
- I dislike people that bitch and complain all the time. I also don’t
like tea, yuck!
- We have several pets at the house….1 cat (Patch), 1 dog (Butch), 1
hamster (Hammy), 5 turtles and a tank full of fish.
- If I had 1 super power it would be to see into peoples minds. Too many
liars in the world so it would be cool to know what is on their minds and
to know what makes them “tick”.
- Something we probably wouldn’t know about you: I was an exotic
dancer in much of my 20’s when my body was “hard". Whenever I used
to enter dance contests I would always place 1st or 2nd. As a dancer, rock
and heavy metal was my choice of music. Dance is #1 to me. I love any
movies that are about dancing and have always wanted to learn any kind of
dancing that I already don’t know. I also collect state thimbles from the
US.
Floyd
Terry - Herndon, VA USA
- I started collecting shot glasses in 1997 because I already collected
other shot glasses.
- My first shot glass was from Vegas (I think). I bought a regular shot
vs. the Metallics!
- I have >1000 shots in my collection. I display them
on shelves.
- My favorite shot glass in my collection is: Edmonton Yellow.
- My favorite drink from a shot glass is Platinum Margarita.
- The coolest HRC related item I own that is not a shot glass is a Hard
Rock Flag.
- The first HRC I visited was Orlando.
- I have personally visited 102 Hard Rock Cafes and my favorite cafe is
Washington DC!
- My favorite food at HRC is Haystack Salad.
- The café I wished I had visited before it closed Tel Aviv.
- I collect other themed shot glasses from Planet
Hollywood.
- My favorite sport is Football and my favorite team is Dallas Cowboys.
- My favorite color is Blue.
- I think life is incomplete without Janice.
- I had 1 sibling.
- My Zodiac is Virgo.
- I am a Computer Programmer.
- The last movie I saw was Enchanted.
- I dislike commercials.
- I have 1 pet(s). Which is a Cockatiel.
- If I had a super power it would be Seeing into the Future.
- Something we probably wouldn’t know about you: I have a
ton of baseball cards that aren’t worth crap now!
Jeff Oxford, Bella Vista, AR USA
- I started collecting shot glasses in 1994, my parents went to the west
coast to see my brother who was in the Navy. A friend of my dad's asked
them to pick up HRC shots if they saw any. My folks came back with shots
from each cafe on the coast at that time -
San Diego, LA,
Hollywood,
San Francisco, and
Tijuana as well as
Aspen. My mom also became a collector based upon that trip.
- The ones listed in #1. The first one I bought was in
Dallas later in 1994 when I went there for the World Cup.
- I have 1437 shot glasses - in cabinets in my HRC room.
- My favorite shot glass in my collection is the 1998 Paris World Cup
because it ties two of my loves together.
- My favorite drink from a shot glass is none, since I don't drink.
- The coolest HR item that I own that is not a shot glass is a
Department 56 HRC Snow Village. I also collect soccer related HRC
pins.
- The first HR I visited was Orlando in 1990.
- I have personally visited 42 cafes and my favorite is Maui (sitting
right on the ocean at night with the Tiki torches is hard to beat. I also
liked
Dallas because it was such a neat building with history).
- My favorite food at the HR is burger and fries.
- The café I wished I had visited before it closed is Nottingham - it
just looked cool.
- I collect other themed café shots from ESPN Zone,
Planet Hollywood, Jekyll & Hyde, All-Star Cafe, House of Blues,
Hooters, Bubba Gump and Rainforest Cafe.
- My favorite sport is soccer and my favorite team is the Fulham FC or
Columbus Crew here in the States. In other sports, I follow the
Yankees, Cheifs and Sooners.
- My favorite color is black.
- I think life is incomplete without Christ.
- I have 1 brother.
- My zodiac sign is Aquarius.
- I am an inventory manager for Sam's Club.
- The last movie I saw was 24 Declassified: Vanishing Point.
- I dislike fruits and vegetables.
- I don't have any pets... but my wife has a dog.
- If I had 1 super power it would be to fly.
- Something we probably wouldn’t know about you: I just got
married in October 2006.
Dave Hafner, Baltimore, MD USA
- I started
collecting HRC shot glasses on July 4, 1997 after the grand opening of the
Baltimore café. Up until that time, I had collected Hard Rock Café
t-shirts (I have more than 120).
- My first shot was
from Baltimore, purchased at the grand opening.
- I have 1109 four
inch tall shots in my collection, and more than 1500 glassware items in
total, including more than 50 coffee mugs. I only collect Hard Rock items.
I have all of my shots displayed on shelves that I built.
- My favorite shot
glass in my collection is the Baltimore “I Stayed” shot, because I created
it.
- My favorite drink
from a shot glass is tequila, but at my advanced age I simply cannot drink
like a used to.
- The coolest HRC
related item I own that is not a shot glass is the 32 ounce beer mug with
the original logo from Toronto. I have an extra one, if anyone would like
to make an offer. The picture shows the comparison to a mini mug.
- The first HRC I
visited was Las Vegas in 1992.
- I have personally
visited 37 cafes and my favorite is Skydome. Hard Rock and baseball, and
they used to have pool tables. As far as personnel, Davey Jones at the
Baltimore café is the best in the corporation.
- My favorite food at
HRC is the Red, White, and Blue burger.
- The café I wish I
had visited before it closed is Aspen. I understand it was the smallest.
- I do not collect
any other themed shot glasses, though I believe I have all of the shots
released by the Baltimore Planet Hollywood before it closed.
- My favorite sport
is baseball and my favorite team is the Orioles. I know, 10 straight
losing seasons. If we could just get a new owner…
- My favorite color
is blue.
- I think my life is
incomplete without my family.
- I have 4 siblings,
three brothers and a sister. I am the maladjusted middle child.
- My Zodiac sign is
Pisces, but I’m not really into astrology.
- I work as a
Software Integration and Project Manager for a large defense contractor.
For the past 18 months, I have been traveling far too often, usually to
places with limited access to the outside world.
- The last book I
read is A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe, which was excellent, but
the best book I’ve read in quite a while was State of Fear
by Michael Crichton.
- I dislike
intentional deceit. Everyone makes mistakes and anyone can miscalculate a
situation. Those things are always forgivable.
- I have three pets.
A dog, Kasey, and two cats, Oliver and Toby.
- If I had a super
power, it would be to see the future.
- Some things you
probably wouldn’t know about me are that I was in the process of turning
my basement into a mini-HRC when it flooded for the second time in a six
month period. It will be finished some day. And that I was invited to
spring training by the Cleveland Indians in 1976.
Denise Black, Surrey, British Columbia,
Canada
- I started collecting shot glasses in 1994 because I bought 2 as a
souvenir from each café on my European trip (2 in case 1 broke somewhere
along the way – the pack was really heavy by the end of the tour and
nothing broke). They were cheaper than buying a pin and when I
bought a drink I got to keep the glass. Thankfully I drink and
didn't go for the pins...
- My first HRC shot glass was from Amsterdam (renegade), London
(official).
- I have over a thousand shots in my collection. I display most of them
in cabinets in my bedroom. There's not a lot of room left.
- My favorite shot glass in my collection is the Las Vegas Mr. Lucky
shot because it was the first shot when I first started collecting that
sold for a lot of money on eBay... and I never thought I'd get to own it.
I own the proto too.
- My favorite drink from a shot glass is Bazooka Joe (Bailey's Irish
Cream, banana liqueur and Blue Curacao). Tastes like bubble gum.
At this past Shot Event trip I acquired a taste for Goldschlager,
thanks to Lois M.
- The coolest HRC related item I own that is not a shot glass is the
Half Yard Jakarta glass.
- The first official HRC I visited was London (first HR was Amsterdam
renegade cafe). I'd been to at least 6 others before I went to the
one in my own city: Vancouver (now closed).
- I have personally visited just over 32 Hard Rock Cafes and my favorite
cafe is London – I just love the city.
- The cafe I wished I had visited before it closed: Banff
(Alberta, Canada).
- My favorite food at HRC is the beef dip sandwich, which has recently
been discontinued. Boo! I used to love the
wings but they’ve changed and I don’t like them as much. Although,
after visiting Biloxi, it appears the super hot sauce is coming
back!!!
- Do I collect other themed shot glasses? – holy crap no! I have no room.
I did start out with Planet Hollywood shots for cafes I had visited but I
decided to stop collecting them and have sold all but 12 of them.
- My favorite sport is HOCKEY. There is no other sport. My favorite
NHL
team is the Vancouver Canucks. Oh, and for those that don't know, the Toronto Maple Leafs S-U-C-K.
- My favorite color is army green.
- I think life is incomplete without friends, Cheetos cheesies and
hockey (they go together).
- I am the oldest of 6 (1 brother, 2 half brothers, 1 step brother and 1
step sister). The largest gap between my siblings and I is 22 years (the
smallest is 2 years).
- My birthday makes me a border Gemini in the contemporary zodiac and an
Ox in the Chinese zodiac. I'm not a big believer in astrology.
I do read horoscopes occasionally - almost always at the end of the day to
see if anything was "foretold". Nothing non-vague has ever come
true.
- I am a Senior Systems Analyst by default of finding nothing better to do
for a career.
- The last book I read was this past weekend, Breaking Dawn by Stephanie
Meyer. I was in line with a friend at the bookstore on August 1rst
for the 12:01 am release. I've done this twice before ... for the
last 2 Harry Potter books. Besides the fun of hanging out with a
zillion fans for both these series, it's also comforting to know that
there are other crazy people in the world.
- I hate coffee, incompetence and liars.
- I have 2 cats named Mystique (after the X-Men character) and Hudson (after
Bill Paxton's character in the movie Aliens) – she hates him, he adores her.
I'd love to get a dog some day, probably a Doberman.
- If I had a super
power it would be to generate electricity and be able to shoot it and
stuff. Of course, I also live in a very wet city so that might be bad… so
I’ll go with the ability to fly. Yeah, fly. Then I could travel any
where I wanted, cheaply.
- Something people probably wouldn't know about me: I played violin until I was 16 and have many certificates with honors
from the Royal Conservatory of Music. One more exam and I could have
become a violin teacher, which is something that never interested me.
Julie Bentrup - St. Louis, MO USA
- I started collecting shot glasses in
1995 when I went to Chicago on my Senior Class trip & then to NY shortly
there after. (Gosh that was SOOOOOOOO long ago!)
- My first shot glass was from Chicago,
it was an STP one but at that time I had NO clue about all the different
generations of STP’s!
- I honestly don’t know how many
shots I have in my collection. I used to have well over 1000 of them but
about 4-5 years ago I sold almost my entire collection. The only shot
glasses I collect now are event shot glasses and Vegas Hotel shot
glasses. Vegas hotel used to do new shot glasses all the time but now it
seems like they rarely make any new ones.
- My favorite shot glasses in my
collection are all the “Pre-Party” event shots that Denise has made over
the years for the people that attend the Pre-Parties.
- My favorite drink from a shot glass
is: GOLDSCLAGER – NOOOOOOOOOOOOO MORE TEE-KILL-YA, ever again!! LOL.
- The coolest HRC related item I own
that is not a shot glass is a Huge Bubbled Beer Glass from HRC Munich that
my pin/shot collector friend Adi from Germany brought me when he came
through St. Louis while visiting several HRC’s with 3 other German
collectors.
- The first HRC I visited was Chicago
in 1995.
- I have personally visited 51 Hard
Rock Cafes/Hotels and my favorite cafe is St. Louis because it’s my home
Café. I just got my 50 Café visit pin in the mail from Corp, yeah!
- I can’t say I really have a favorite
food at the HRC because every time I go there it seems like the menu
changes. I do like their salads though, even if they change the salads
they always seem to be good.
- The café I wished I had visited
before it closed is Aspen – I’ve always wanted to go there.
- Favorite Actor/Actress/Movie –
My Favorite Actor BY FAR is Morgan Freeman (I love him!) and my favorite
Actress is Sandra Bullock. She just seems so down to earth and not stuck
on herself and the Hollywood lifestyle. My favorite movie is Shawshank
Redemption, best movie ever!
- My favorite sport is a toss up – I
really like Baseball and Football. My favorite Baseball team would have
to be my beloved Cardinals and as far as football goes I know I SHOULD say
the St. Louis Rams but……I really like The Colts, Peyton is my man! I
loved Green Bay when Favre was there but don’t think I can get used to him
being a New York Jet...Don’t like New England or maybe it’s really just
Brady I don’t like – sorry George!!!
- My favorite color is PINK!! I love
pink! J
- I think life is incomplete without
great family & friends. I don’t even collect many shot glasses at all
anymore but I still love to go to the events every year because I have
made such wonderful friends in this hobby and I look forward to getting
together with them every year for fun, laughter and yes, of course
drinking! I think those of us that come to the events every year are
really a close group of friends and will continue the tradition no matter
what happens or where our events may take us to!
- I have 1 brother named Mark. He’s
older than me; he’ll be 34 on August 28th.
- My Zodiac is a Taurus and it fits me
to a T!
- I work in Customer Service for a
living – basically I am “glorified secretary” at my job where I pretty
much work for everyone and in all departments. We are in the Oil & Gas
Industry and my company manufactures a granular media that removes
Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) out of natural Gas. I know, exciting huh?!!
- The last movie I saw was The
Bucket List – cute movie!
- I dislike people that are dishonest
and people who make fun of/treat bad other people who may have a handicap
or a weight problem or because of their race, etc. My mother always
taught me that you should never judge people from the outside; it’s what’s
in their heart that makes them who they are.
- I don’t have any pets of my own,
however my brother has a Bichon Frise named Stifler (yes, he’s named him
after the character on American Pie) who is my pride and joy and more
spoiled than anyone could ever imagine!! I also have “visitation rights”
to my little man Oscar who is a chocolate Daschund and I just love him to
death! He and Stifler both love to come to Aunt Julie’s on “vacation”.
J
Yes; I am a HUGE HUGE HUGE dog lover!
- If I had a super power it would be to
make everyone get along! I’m so tired of people killing other people and
themselves for their religion and having our soldiers fighting a war that
cannot be won. I’ll leave it at that!
J
- Something we probably wouldn’t know
about you. Well let’s see, I think most everyone knows everything about
me, especially my obsession with firemen and Taylor Hicks.
J The only
thing I can think of that most of you don’t know is my best friend Matt
passed away Dec. 16th, 1992 and his family are like a second family to
me. After his death his mother and I started attending a non-profit
bereavement group in the area and another girl who lost her brother and I
started a separate chapter for siblings/friends who have lost their
siblings and/or friends. It was a huge success and I then left that group
for Traci to run and I went out to another group in the St. Louis area to
form a sibling/friend bereavement group that was desperately needed
there. When we started there were only 2 groups in the area and as of
today there are now 8 groups within the surrounding St. Louis area. Here
is an article/picture from me that was posted in the monthly newsletter.
It is on page 3 if anyone cares to check it out. To be able to help other
people heal is something that is very special and meaningful to me.
www.bpusastl.org/images/Newsletters/Webcopies/BPStL_M-J_05.pdf
Rollie Barretto, San Francisco, CA USA
- I started collecting shot glasses in
2000 (but not Hard Rock Cafe) from different cities that I visited and for
the Hard Rock Cafe shot glasses was 2004.
- My first shot glass was from Makati
City, Philippines (where I am from).
- I have over a hundred shot glasses in
my collection and a few of them displayed in a shot glass cabinet in my
living room.
- My favorite shot glass in my
collection is Las Vegas Hotel Cobalt Blue; I like it among other shots
because of its unique color with gold lettering and its size.
- My favorite drink from Hard Rock Cafe
is the Tropical Rock (in hurricane glass).
- The coolest HRC related items I own
that are not a shot glass are Head Guitar Series Pins, HRC Classic Logo
Pins and HRC Baseball cap (I have 3 dozens of them from different cafes).
- The first HRC I visited was Makati
City, Philippines.
- I have personally visited Orlando,
San Francisco, New Jersey, Universal City Walk, Hollywood California, San
Diego, and Makati City, Philippines.
- My favorite food at HRC is grilled
salmon, I tried their chicken wings in barbeque sauce – it’s good with
iced cold beer!!!
- The cafes I wished I had visited
before they closed are Manila and La Jolla.
- I don’t collect other themed shot
glasses because I have no room. I do within the HRC collection, like the
Canadian Blue Logo, a few event shot glasses and all City shot glasses
from US and Non-US cafes.
- My favorite sport is Basketball and
my favorite team is LA Lakers.
- My favorite color is blue.
- I think life is incomplete without
families and friends.
- I have 6 brothers (one is deceased)
and 3 sisters and I’m the second to the youngest.
- My Zodiac sign is Scorpio and I was
born in the Year of the Snake and my birthday is Halloween so if you put
them together … I’m scary and deadly!!!
- I used to work as a Customer Service
Assistance in a telephone company but I’m now a Care Provider, for a
change.
- I don’t read book too much but I
loved reading magazines like Esquire, GQ and other sports magazine. The
last movie I saw was Dark Night (Batman).
- I dislike people who are hypocrite or
with bad hygiene.
- I have no pets as I have allergies
with pet dander.
- If I had a super power it would be an
“invisible” so that I can go anywhere unnoticed.
- When I was a young, I loved
collecting stamps, coins and banknotes from different countries and I have
boxful of them in my storage. I loved traveling, hiking and running but
after a terrible accident 12 years ago everything changed and I can only
do less strenuous activities.
Jimmy McDonald,
Ontario Canada
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I
started collecting shot glasses in 1989 because I was in Montréal and
liked the look of the Montreal gold shot glass
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I have 650 shots in my
collection. I display all of them in two glass cabinets; once they
are full I will stop…about 50 more to go
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My favorite shot glass in
my collection is Orlando Winter Carnival Snowflake, which I helped design
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My favorite drink from a
shot glass is B52
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The first HRC I visited
was North America’s oldest: Toronto
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I have personally visited
about 30 Hard Rock Cafes and my favorite cafe is Maui
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My favorite food at HRC
are the Nachos
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The café I wished I had
visited before it closed is Iceland
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I don’t collect any other
type of shot glasses
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My favorite sport is
soccer and my favorite team is the Glasgow Rangers
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My favorite color is blue
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I think life is
incomplete without exercise, wine, Pizza and beer
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I have an older sister
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My Zodiac BULL
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I am an ICU Nurse
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The last book I read was
the Bourne Deception by Robert Ludlum and Erik Van Lustbader
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I dislike Hypocrites
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I have no pets
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If I had a super power it
would be x-ray vision
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Something you probably
don’t know about me is that I completed the Ford Ironman Wisconsin in
September 2007
George Schenck, Myrtle Beach, SC USA
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I started collecting shots a long time
ago so I would have a souvenir from my travels. I also had friends pick
me up shots whenever they went somewhere.
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My first shot glass was from Chicago, I
bought it in the airport. My first HRC shot was from Orlando,
which was given to me.
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I have close to 2000 total shot glasses
in my collection, all types included. Around 1300 are Hard Rock shots.
They are currently in boxes, as I am in the process of having display
cases made since I have just relocated to Myrtle Beach.
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My favorite shot glass in my collection
would have to be my Surfers Paradise metallic set and my Surfers
Paradise Blue Cobalt.
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My favorite drink from a shot glass is
Peppermint Schnapps.
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The coolest HRC related item I own that
is not a shot glass is the Antwerp and Kowloon menus and merchandise
lists.
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The first HRC I visited was St. Thomas.
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I have personally visited 52 Hard Rock
Cafes and my favorite cafe is Orlando.
- My favorite food at HRC is Haystack
Chicken Salad, with a beer chaser.
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The cafe I wished I had visited before
it closed would be Sydney and Melbourne. I had planned on going there
next year.
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I collect other themed shot glasses. I
have Planet Hollywood, Rainforest Cafe, All Star Cafe, ESPN Zone, and
Bubba Gump.
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My favorite sport is: I like all
sports. My favorite teams are the New York Yankees, New England
Patriots, Boston Celtics, and Montreal Canadiens (sorry, Denise).
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My favorite color is black.
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I think life is incomplete without
family and friends.
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I have 5 siblings, 4 brothers and 1
sister. I am the second oldest.
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My Zodiac is Taurus. Not sure what it
means, except I like beer and Julie is a Taurus who likes beer too, so
there must be something to it.
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I have just retired after working for
the US Postal Service for the past 27 years. So far I find it boring.
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The last book I read was Black Hawk
Down. Even though I saw the movie, the book goes into more detail. I
mostly read newspapers though.
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I dislike phonies, old movies, and
shopping.
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I have 2 pets. They are Buffy and
Jolene, my cats. Both are females. Buffy is 12 and Jolene is 6.
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If I had a super power, it would be to
be able to go back in time. I would have done a lot of things
differently.
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Something you probably wouldn't know
about me. My military background, the training and missions I went on,
some of which were Classified. Also, I did some amateur boxing in my
younger days, having fought in a couple of New England Golden Gloves
Tournaments.
Dick Pruden, Mason, Ohio USA
- I started collecting regular shot
glasses while in the Navy and have about eight hundred plus. In April
2000, while surfing eBay, I came across the Hard Rock Café category. I
watched the site for a week and decided to collect just Hard Rock Café
shot glasses.
ANYBODY INTERESTED IN PURCHASING SOME
REGULAR SHOT GLASSES ??
- The first shot glass was from HRC
Dallas.
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My HRC shot glass
collection consists of 1,718 four-inch shots and 461 short shots (and no,
I am not trying to beat Paul). The short shots include the promotional,
25th and 30th anniversary, Hong Kong’s and Kowloon‘s
first shot glasses, Asian mini-mugs, etc. My fakes and renegades (Phnom
Penh, Saigon, Chiang Mai, Rhodes, Protaras, Nairobi, Mykonos, etc.) total
293. Seventy-one of these are from Helio. So my entire HRC shot glass
collection consists of 2,472 pieces and growing.
I also collect most other
HRC-related items and have 424 various types of glassware, Zippo lighters,
drumsticks, beer bottles/cans, golf balls/baseballs, pins, clocks, ash
trays, coasters, matchbooks, laminates, decks of cards, stuffed bears,
chips, radios, etc. During the last couple years I picked up some pins
along the way and now have over 2,100 of them. I plan on cutting back on
the pins and getting back to just shot glass collecting.
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My favorite shot glass in
my collection is the Hard Rock Hotel Las Vegas triple purple sevens on a
yellow spade.
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My favorite drink from any
glass, except Hard Rock Café types, is a caffeine-free diet Coke. It was a
necessary mid/late-life change from Millers, Harp, Amstel and Crown
Royal.
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The coolest non-shot glass
HRC-related item in my collection is a set of Soccer World Cup 2006 flag
pins mounted inside a pin case. I think it looks really sharp against the
black felt background and soccer/football is my second favorite sport to
watch.
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The first HRC I visited
was at Niagara Falls, Canada. It was followed quickly by Niagara Falls,
NY, Skydome Toronto, Toronto, Montreal and Pittsburgh.
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I have visited 17 Cafes.
My favorite has got to be HRC Dallas. The guitar-shaped bar, huge stained
glass windows behind the stage and the English wood paneled room upstairs
were impressive. Besides, ZZ Top used to hang out there. Too bad it no
longer exists.
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My favorite food at an HRC
is burgers and fries. Not much of a connoisseur.
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The café I wished I had
visited before it closed is definitely Taichung. If I had visited there I
would have at least two of both versions of their shot glass. Instead, I
have none L.
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I collected Planet
Hollywood shots for about a year and have over 130 shot glasses.
THESE ARE ALSO AVAILABLE FOR SALE ALONG WITH THE SHOTS MENTIONED IN
PARAGRAPH ONE !!!!
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My favorite sport to watch
is American football. My favorite team is the Bengals – die hard fan.
Though the last decade or so I have felt like a Boston Red Sox fan before
2007.
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Blue is my favorite color
followed by gray.
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I think life is incomplete
without Anita and our families.
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I am second of six
siblings (one older and two younger sisters and two younger brothers). I
was born on Mother’s Day in 19** and years later Mom told me I was her
favorite Mother’s Day gift -- until I turned five. I still do not
understand what she meant by that !!!!!
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My Zodiac sign is Taurus.
I believe in the zodiac and astrology about as much as I believe that TV
wrestling is real. Each to their own, though.
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I work in a bindery about
10 miles from the condo. Looking forward to retirement.
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The last book I read was
Redemption by Leon Uris. Last year I donated over 800 hardback
books to a charity. I only kept books from a few special writers: Leon
Uris, Ayn Rand, John D. MacDonald, J.R.R.Tolkien, Irving Wallace, Dan
Brown and John Grisham. Every so often I pick up a book and re-read it.
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I dislike liars and
thieves. A liar has a habit of living on the wrong side of the facts. A
thief has a habit of finding things before they are lost.
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We do not have any pets.
I would love to have another Cavalier King Charles Spaniel; I’ve owned
four of them in the past. Maybe some day I will have a chance.
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If I had a super power it
would be to cure people of sickness of the body and meanness of the mind.
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I spent twenty years in
the Navy traveling from 200 miles above the Arctic Circle (twice) to
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; from Okinawa to Londonderry, Northern Ireland (5 ½
years). My time included a jaunt to Nova Scotia, a Mediterranean cruise,
and a Caribbean cruise. While stationed in Scotia, NY in 1971 some
friends and I went up to Diamond Lake Rodeo one weekend. I rode a 1,200
pound Brahma bull called Killer or Thunder Stomp. Some name like that I’m
sure. It took an immediate dislike to me. Then, after jumping up and down
and running around for 4 ½ seconds, the bull made a sharp left and I made
a sharp right. The time seemed longer, though. Luckily no bones were
broken, just a bruised ego.
Some of Dick's collection!
Brian Gledhill, Pittsburgh, PA USA
Congratulations Brian!
Frank Treuman, Wheeling, WV
- I started collecting shot glasses in
2002 after receiving a souvenir from a friend. I quickly began
specializing in Hard Rock shots after acquiring my first at a flea market
in Pennsylvania. It was a London red and came with a pin for $3.00.
- I have just under 700 Hard Rock shots
which I have displayed in cabinets. Some store bought and some I built.
- My favorite shot is a Montreal gold
logo which was mixed in with a group of shots on Ebay. You would die if
you knew how little it cost.
- My favorite drink from a shot glass
or rocks glass is Tullamore Dew Irish whiskey.
- The first cafe I ever visited was
Baltimore and remains my favorite. I've only been to 7 so far and my
favorite food is the bacon cheeseburger with onion rings and a dark beer.
- My favorite sport is football and my
team is the Steelers.
- My favorite color is blue.
- My sign is Scorpio.
- I think life is incomplete without
family, friends and pets.
- I have two cats, Kafka and Mollie.
That's Kafka sleeping in my face, his favorite morning hangout. I'd love
to own another great Dane.
- I am a retired locksmith (25 years)
with 18 years in banking before that.
- The last book I read was "Rough
Weather" by Robert B. Parker.
- If I could have a super power I would
like invisibility.
- I dislike liars.
- In my time I have collected stamps,
coins, elephants, Matchbox Collectibles and cartoon critters. Collecting
is truly a sickness. I was also heavily into tropical fish for many years.
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