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As of January 1, 2019, we have closed our forums. This is a decision we did not come to lightly, but it is necessary. The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk. The server software itself must be updated, and it cannot be without removing the forums.
So it is with a heavy heart that we say goodbye to our long-running forums. They came online in 2000 and brought together so many wonderful Disney fans. We had friendships form, careers launch, couples marry, children born ... all because of this amazing community.
Thank you to each of you who were a part of this community. You made it possible.
And a very special thank you to our Guides (moderators), past and present, who kept our forums a happy place to be. You are the glue that held everything together, and we are forever grateful to you. Thank you aliceinwdw, Caldercup, MrsM, WillCAD, Fortissimo, GingerJ, HiddenMickey, CRCrazy, Eeyoresmom, disneyknut, disneydani, Cam22, chezp, WDWfan, Luvsun, KMB733, rescuesk, OhToodles!, Colexis Mom, lfredsbo, HiddenMickey, DrDolphin, DopeyGirl, duck addict, Disneybine, PixieMichele, Sandra Bostwick, Eeyore Tattoo, DyanKJ130, Suzy Q'Disney, LilMarcieMouse, AllisonG, Belle*, Chrissi, Brant, DawnDenise, Crystalloubear, Disneymom9092, FanOfMickey, Goofy4Goofy, GoofyMom, Home4us123, iamgrumpy, ilovedisney247, Jennifer2003, Jenny Pooh, KrisLuvsDisney, Ladyt, Laughaholic88, LauraBelle Hime, Lilianna, LizardCop, Loobyoxlip, lukeandbrooksmom, marisag, michnash, MickeyMAC, OffKilter_Lynn, PamelaK, Poor_Eeyore, ripkensnana, RobDVC, SHEANA1226, Shell of the South, snoozin, Statelady01, Tara O'Hara, tigger22, Tink and Co., Tinkerbelz, WDWJAMBA, wdwlovers, Wendyismyname, whoSEZ, WildforWD, and WvuGrrrl. You made the magic.
We want to personally thank Sara Varney, who coordinated our community for many years (among so many other things she did for us), and Cheryl Pendry, our Message Board Manager who helped train our Guides, and Ginger Jabour, who helped us with the PassPorter-specific forums and Live! Guides. Thank you for your time, energy, and enthusiasm. You made it all happen.
There are other changes as well.
Why? Well, the world has changed. And change with it, we must. The lyrics to "We Go On" for IllumiNations say it best:
We go on to the joy and through the tears
We go on to discover new frontiers
Moving on with the current of the years.
We go on
Moving forward now as one
Moving on with a spirit born to run
Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.
But eventually, we must move on and move forward. It is the right thing to do.
So we are retiring this newsletter, as we simply cannot keep up with it. Many thanks to Mouse Fan Travel who supported it all these years, to All Ears and MousePlanet who helped us with news, to our many article contributors, and -- most importantly -- to Sara Varney who edited our newsletter so wonderfully for years and years.
And we are no longer charging for the Live Guides. If you have a subscription, it's yours to keep for the lifetime of the Live Guides at no additional cost. The Live Guides will stay online, barring server issues and technical problems, for all of 2019.
That said, PassPorter is not going away. Most of the resources will remain online for as long as we can support them, and after that we will find ways to make whatever we can available. PassPorter means a great deal to us, and to many of you, and we will do our best to keep it alive in whatever way we can. Our server costs are high, and they'll need to come out of our pockets, so in the future you can expect some changes so we can bring those costs down.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your amazing support over the years. Without you, there's no way us little guys could have made something like this happen and given the "big guys" a run for their money. PassPorter was consistently the #3 guidebook after the Unofficial and Official guides, which was really unheard of for such a small company to do. We ROCKED it thanks to you and your support and love!
If you miss us, you can still find some of us online. Sara started a new blog at DisneyParkPrincess.com -- I strongly urge you to visit and get on her mailing list. She IS the Disney park princess and knows Disney backward and forward. And I am blogging as well at JenniferMaker.com, which is a little craft blog I started a couple of years ago to make ends meet. You can see and hear me in my craft show at https://www.youtube.com/c/jennifermaker . Many PassPorter readers and fans are on Facebook, in groups they formed like the PassPorter Trip Reports and PassPorter Crafting Challenge (if you join, just let them know you read about it in the newsletter). And some of our most devoted community members started a forum of their own at Pixie Dust Lane and all are invited over.
So we encourage you to stay in touch with us and your fellow community members wherever works best for you!
Best wishes for a wonderful and magical new year!
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05-21-2005, 11:14 AM
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Community Rank: Traveler 
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 271
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Best home town restaurant
If visitors were coming to your hometown, where would you tell them to eat, and what should they order?
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05-21-2005, 11:30 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Near a Tower of Terror at the moment...
Posts: 13,884
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Re: Best home town restaurant
Steve's Dakota Grill: calamari for an appetizer, any kind of steak for the entree, and chocolate cake for dessert. The food is soooo  , but simple and plentiful. |
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05-21-2005, 11:36 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Longfellow's "Jewel by the Sea"
Posts: 14,165
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Re: Best home town restaurant
David's Creative Cuisine--their chocolate-cherry martini and the free (insanely tasty) breadsticks will be enough. 
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05-21-2005, 11:37 AM
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Batman's Gal/Mickey's Pal
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Owensboro, KY USA
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 95,254
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Re: Best home town restaurant
Old Hickory Barbeque -- anything on the menu would be great. Owensboro calls themselves the "Barbeque Capital of the World", mainly because we have so many barbeque restaurants.
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05-21-2005, 11:46 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Mesquite, TX
Posts: 9,373
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Re: Best home town restaurant
Trail Dust Steakhouse has the best filet mignon !!!  |
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05-21-2005, 12:05 PM
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PassPorter Message Board Manager
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Community Rank: Legend VIP 
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Maidstone, Kent, UK
Concierge Level: 3
Posts: 190,285
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Re: Best home town restaurant
I'd recommend the Noble House Chinese restaurant - and most things on the menu are great. What a fun question!  |
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05-21-2005, 12:10 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Whitefield, NH
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 13,599
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Re: Best home town restaurant
Depends - do you want a sit down restaurant, or counter service style food??
I live in a LITTLE town - but we do get summer tourists, so we do have a couple of restaurants.
My current favorite is Jack's Dairy Bar, of course. I'm rather partial to the cute ice cream girl you see below!
John still loves our diner-style standby - Grandma's Kitchen. It's okay - but it's no Prime Time!!
For sit down restaurants, we've currently got 2 - Woodburn House, which is very tiny, but serves pretty decent food. John took me there on my birthday this year. We've also got Juliet's, which is in the Mountain View Grand Hotel. Never eaten there - it's pretty pricey. If I want to eat at a hotel restaurant, I want to be travelling!
We did just get a Chinese place - but I haven't tried it yet - just opened this week!
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05-21-2005, 12:13 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: UK
Posts: 13,146
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Re: Best home town restaurant
The Bell Inn, it's not in our town but the next one along, the food is very good .
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05-21-2005, 12:21 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: NE Ohio
Concierge Level: 8
Posts: 11,856
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Re: Best home town restaurant
We have two- Longo's, an Italian restaurant and J D's Post House which has good steak and about everything else is good, too.
Liz
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05-21-2005, 12:29 PM
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Community Rank: Scout 
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Posts: 4,751
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Re: Best home town restaurant
This is hard because I live in a large city and there are so many good restaurants. The best meal I have had lately is at Maggiano's Little Italy Restaurant in Center City at the Marriott. There is also an Italian Restaurant closer to my house called The Italian Bistro that is really good. Other than that it is too hard to pick! I would probably also tell someone to go to The Charthouse Steakhouse because although it is pricey the ambiance and location is great, it's right on the water.
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05-21-2005, 12:50 PM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Michigan's Upper Peninsula
Posts: 27,691
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Re: Best home town restaurant
Definitely the Casa Calabria (Italian) or Vango's (Greek food) At the casa, order the filet or the gnocchi and at Vango's gotta get the Greek salad or a gyro.
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05-21-2005, 01:00 PM
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Living Seas wannabe
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Jacksonville, FL
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 31,940
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Re: Best home town restaurant
The Tree Steakhouse - hands down the best steak I have eaten in years.....(except Le cellier and Palo of course)
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05-21-2005, 01:05 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter 
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Las Vegas
Posts: 2,584
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Re: Best home town restaurant
For in-town, I'd say the italian restaurant 2 blocks away from us, Fiori D'Italia. It's a family run business tucked away in a neighborhood that you usually don't know about unless a friend tells you. Everything on the menu is pretty good; our favorite is an appetizer called Scampi Fritti. It's butterflied prawns with cream cheese and a red pepper strip, battered and fried. Yeah, calories galore, but the taste is heavenly.
Out of town? There's another restaurant hidden away in Girdwood, a town about 45 minutes south of Anchorage. Girdwood is home to Alyeska Ski Resort, an internationally acclaimed resort. But what Girdwood is really famous for is the Double Musky Inn. We go there once a year for the best cajun food north of New Orleans! I recommend starting with the Beef Tips and/or File Gumbo. They serve Jalapeno Cheese Bread with every meal. DH recommends the French Pepper Steak (I call it a roast--it's that big), and I would die happy if my last meal were their Shrimp Etoufee.
We're going there one last time this summer before we leave state. |
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05-21-2005, 01:14 PM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer 
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Tuscaloosa, AL
Posts: 5,641
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Re: Best home town restaurant
The Globe Restaurant The Globe is located in a structure downtown that used to hold a dry-goods store, it now features a long English tavern-style bar and giant line drawings of figures from Shakespeare's plays.
I recommend starting with an appetizer of Beef and Montrachet Crostini (topped with goat cheese), then an entree of either Twelfth Night Trout (topped with roasted pecans) or the Filet Oscar, topped with crabmeat and served with asparagus.
I rarely have room for dessert.
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05-21-2005, 02:00 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Louisville, KY
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 18,767
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Re: Best home town restaurant
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Old Hickory Barbeque -- anything on the menu would be great. Owensboro calls themselves the "Barbeque Capital of the World", mainly because we have so many barbeque restaurants.
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I've been there!! I am originally from Evansville!
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