blues based music hall/barbeque restaurant that sits on a major river. I’d install boat docks and a runway. The building would look out on the river and aviation ramp. One of the rooms in the building would be a state of the art recording studio. The property would be set up for outdoor concerts. I’d like enough land to create a yearly blues festival.
Basically I want to mentor musicians and I’d build a fun place to do it that was self funding.
I’d reopen the pub I worked at a few months back, and make the improvements it needed to stay in business. A bigger bar, advertising, more parking, a place for a live band, all new kitchen equipment. Fix up the deck so its usable all year round.
Buy a bus, and convert it into a mobile second hand bookshop, with a room for me at the front done up caravan style.
Drive round remote communities and camp sites, on my schedule, when I feel like it. I might branch out into board games too.
Set up a decent high-tech machine shop, including a range of CAM machines like cutters, lathes and mills, and make … stuff - computers, accessories, cases - that features lots of brass, leather , hardwood and stone, but are functional - somewhat along the lines of what Datamancer and Von Slatt do, but incorporating my own design sensibilities, and not only steampunk stuff, some would be palaeontology-, high fantasy- or pulp SciFi-inspired designs.
My own strip mall, devoted to businesses that cater to manly interests.
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Jazz club. And I would pay the musicians really well and tickets would be cheap. I would have the best talent and a full house every night.
Movin’ to Montana soon?
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Before that gorgeous farm-style building out by the interstate got bought by a doggie daycare and permanently ruined, I would have bought it. I would have put a yarn shop in one end and a quilt fabric shop in the other, with a tea room in between. Would have been a perfect stop for shop hop buses. I could have all the gorgeous yarn I wanted, all the gorgeous fabric I wanted, had a shop cat and fireplaces, and served cream teas. I would have loved it.
Would have needed a crapload of startup funds though.
Restore and build classic sailboats.
Have a space large enough for several different work stations. Go on constant quests for “found objects”, from flea-markety to antique, fabric to driftwood to beads to old mattress springs. There’d be a lot of bamboo, rocks and fishing line around. Make things like floor lamps out of hollow trees, curtains out of bedspreads, desks out of kitchen farm tables and fireplace screens out of old grates. Sell them for enough to pay the people who I hope would work along side me.
Bowling lanes.
I’d flip houses and do interior design.
I’ve always wanted to open a brewery. Recently my idea has been for it to specialize in sour and other funky beers.
Breed and train search and rescue dogs and/or service dogs.
On the foothills of the Rockies.
1.)Inventor. I’ve got a ton of ideas that I’m absolutely sure people would want, if only I had the means to bring them to market.
2.)Steak house. I love steaks.
3.) A trivia Bar. I’m convinced THIS would make millions!!
I’ve got tons of ideas, but the one that has been on my mind most recently is restoring a 1920s-era movie theater, like a swanky art deco one, and then playing whatever movies I happen to feel like I want to watch.
I figure I’d have two movies at any time, a family-friendly movie to bring in people with kids during the day, and another movie at night for more of a date crowd. (Whether or not other adults think Wargames is a good adult date movie is up to them, I don’t need to make a profit.)
There is also a cafe/ice cream counter/cocktail bar kind of a thing, so going to the movie can be a whole event.
Oh, the point is that I would keep the prices of everything low, especially so families can all go together without the afternoon costing a ton of money.
A bowling alley with a bar. It would be for competitive bowlers only. No house balls, no rental shoes, no parties, no glo bowling. I’d put out various sport compliant & pba pattern lane conditions, host tournaments, and scratch leagues only.
I would lose money hand over fist!
I’d open an online shop, probably on etsy, and sell whatever I felt like working on.
A gaming bar. Sort of like Dave and Busters, only it wouldn’t suck.
I’m imagining large booths set up with 40" flat screens and a PS3 and a 360 (or whatever the latest iteration is), and patrons could play against each other within the booths, or against other booths, or potentially everybody in the bar. There would be a stage with a huge HD projector for featured games or tournaments, maybe have a band play.
I would like to buy enough acreage somewhere on the East Coast and build a generic enough town on it so that reenactment groups from medieval to modern could stage their events and have a village to visit / fight over.
The town could have a few businesses for the visitors to actually shop in for neat stuff, a few pubs, and even an old fashioned hotel or two for those who wish the accommodations.
And of course a great hall for the king / leader / whatever to preside in, and city walls, and battlements, and a moat and bridges to fight over. Maybe build two villages so they can fight between themselves.
Yeah, I’d lose so much money, but it would be epic.