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Historic Hooch's 66 Bar and Grill is for sale in Topak Arizona

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Hooch's 66 Bar and grill in the above photo is for  sale  .  Topock, according to the internet has a population of 2 people and another site said zero living there. Topock is the location of the Old Trails Arch Bridge built in 1914 which is famous in movie history. It was featured in the film starring a young Henry Fonda in THE GRAPES OF WRATH as shown below: and then featured in EASY RIDER in the opening credits with actors Dennis Hopper and Henry's son Peter Fonda  driving their "hogs" (motorcycles) across it. There is actually over 2,000 people in the area but they all live north of Topock at Golden Shores nearby. Topock is located between Lake Havasu City and Bullhead City and is across the Colorado River from Needles, California. These mountains are the Needles.  Now Hooch's Bar and Grill looks like a very nice restaurant and bar. Here is the entrance  Looks kind of exotic and cheery and fairly clean. Here is the first dining and bar area and another angle.

THE FLOATING NEWPORT SEAFOOD GRILL IS FOR SALE IN PORTLAND OREGON

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The floating former restaurant known as the NEWPORT SEAFOOD GRILL has been floating abandoned out in the Willamette River like a HORSE WITH NO NAME (don't make me sing it). It is now back up for  SALE . I watched this video by a youtube guy known as KLEARSKI THE KREEPER.    Now I was able to eat at this restaurant back when it was called THE MARINA restaurant. The company I worked for at the time provided a dinner here and I remember the service was slow, we had to wait a 1/2 hour just to get the check for the meal and the food was mediocre at best. This proves out with the ratings it got on YELP. However the building is cool! If you look at the photos, the building actually floats and is attached with metal rings that are coupled around tall metal or wooden poles.  This enables the restaurant to adjust to the ever changing depth of the Willamette River. It's a unique sensation to walk inside the restaurant because of this and it adjusts to the wake of the big ocean ships that