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In 1991 we’ve visited our first Hard Rock Cafe.
The “original”, in London, established in 1971.
That visit started it all. We got attracted to
the spirit and the Soul of the Hard Rock Cafes.
We’ve started collecting pins and bears and
tried to visit as much as Hard Rock Cafes as
possible.
In 2001 we’ve joined the Hard Rock Cafe Pin
Collectors Club.
In 2002 we’ve stayed for the first time in a
Hard Rock Hotel. Hard Rock Hotel Orlando. That
was a very pleasant experience. Worth doing it
again.
During all this years we’ve visited about 60
cafes, hotels, casino’s, …
Unfortunately not all of them are registered.
Some are closed, others we’ve visited before
we’ve joined the pin collectors club.
In the meantime we’re still visiting Hard Rock
Cafes, Hotels, …, but not as enthusiastic as in
the beginning, because the Spirit is much less.
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Rock Cafe is a chain of casual dining
restaurants. It was founded in 1971 by Isaac
Tigrett and Peter Morton, and their first Hard
Rock Cafe opened near Hyde Park Corner in
London, in a former Rolls Royce car dealerships
showroom close to Hyde Park, where in 1979 they
began to cover the walls with rock 'n' roll
ephemera.
There are more than 143 Hard Rock Cafes in over
36 countries at current date, with several more
in the works. Hard Rock was most popular in the
1980s when some people engaged in the hobby of
visiting as many locations as possible and
collecting a Hard Rock t-shirt bearing the Cafe
logo and the location name.
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Source:
Wikipedia |
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Hard Rock Locator |
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Visited Cafés
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Amsterdam |
Atlanta |
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Atlantic City |
Baltimore |
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Boston Copley Square |
Cayman Islands |
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Cologne |
Cozumel |
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Destin |
Foxwoods |
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Ft. Lauderdale |
Gatlinburg |
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Hollywood, FL |
Key West |
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Lake Tahoe |
Las Vegas |
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Las Vegas - The Strip |
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London |
Manchester |
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Memphis |
Miami |
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Montreal |
Myrtle Beach |
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Nashville |
New Orleans |
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New York |
Orlando |
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Paris |
Philadelphia |
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Rome |
Sacramento |
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Salt Lake City |
San Francisco |
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St. Louis |
Washington DC |
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Puerto Vallarta |
Cabo San Lucas |
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Acapulco |
Hollywood California |
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Barcelona |
Munich |
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Visited Cafés (Closed)
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Antwerp
Est. December 15, 1995
closed April 1997 |
Aspen
Est. January 22, 1991
Closed November 2000 |
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Banff
Est. October 22, 1995
closed June 2000 |
Calgary
Est. April 1, 1995
closed June 2000 |
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Vancouver
Est. June 6, 1995
closed June 2000 |
Whistler
Est. September 5, 1995
closed June 2000 |
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Visited Casinos (Closed)
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Manchester Casino
Est. July 19, 2002
closed summer 2006 |
London Casino
(Now G
Casino Piccadilly) |
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Visited Musea (Closed)
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Vault Orlando |
Opened 2002
Closed September 2004 |
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The Hard
Rock Vault, a 17,000-square-foot music
memorabilia museum owned by Hard Rock
Cafe International, was located at 8437
International Drive at the Mercado
shopping plaza in Orlando; the same
building that had previously housed the
defunct Guinness World Records
Experience museum.
The grand
opening was held January 16, 2003. It
closed in September, 2004. Apparently
tourists weren't that interested in
paying $14.95 to see the same kind of
memorabilia they could see in a
restaurant for the price of a
cheeseburger. After the closing the
various artifacts were distributed back
to the Hard Rock chain's various
restaurant collections.
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Source:
Florida's Lost Tourist Attractions |
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