Sonthert Posted May 25, 2006 Share Posted May 25, 2006 Each one is listed as a reply with explanation/title Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonthert Posted May 25, 2006 Author Share Posted May 25, 2006 [img]file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Sonthert/Desktop/Shop%20pics/New%20cuts%20for%20web/Eric%27s%20Store%20-%20%20March%202006%20001.jpg[/img][img]file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Sonthert/Desktop/Shop%20pics/New%20cuts%20for%20web/Eric%27s%20Store%20-%20%20March%202006%20001.jpg[/img] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonthert Posted May 25, 2006 Author Share Posted May 25, 2006 [url="http://www.uploadfile.info"][img]http://www.uploadfile.info/uploads/cc78bf598e.jpg[/img][/url]This is a view of the lounge's front door from inside. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lukasa Posted May 25, 2006 Share Posted May 25, 2006 I didn't know you ran a hookah lounge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonthert Posted May 25, 2006 Author Share Posted May 25, 2006 [url="http://www.uploadfile.info"][img]http://www.uploadfile.info/uploads/b2f5f20517.jpg[/img][/url]This is a view more to the right of the first one.Real exciting stuff, eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonthert Posted May 25, 2006 Author Share Posted May 25, 2006 [url="http://www.uploadfile.info"][img]http://www.uploadfile.info/uploads/c876586528.jpg[/img][/url]This is the complete, panoramic view of the lounge from next to the soda machine.Real big...gigantic...barely big enough to park a car in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonthert Posted May 25, 2006 Author Share Posted May 25, 2006 Note, where I always sit is to the far right, front where the cup and hookah are, you can see the table I sit at. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonthert Posted May 25, 2006 Author Share Posted May 25, 2006 [url="http://www.uploadfile.info"][img]http://www.uploadfile.info/uploads/418b5fe539.jpg[/img][/url]This is the left wall, from the perspective of the first picture, one of my favorite pieces of art (which I designed, like all the wall art in the lounge) called "miscommunication". That couch is where most of my good friends sit on a nightly basis. The TV being the golden box where DVD images waft through the transoms of our perception. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonthert Posted May 25, 2006 Author Share Posted May 25, 2006 [url="http://www.uploadfile.info"][img]http://www.uploadfile.info/uploads/dde3c360a5.jpg[/img][/url]Same Wall, different shot, looking more directly at it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonthert Posted May 25, 2006 Author Share Posted May 25, 2006 P.S. each rectangle on that wall was painstakingly measured. The possible location for each rectangle was mappedon the wall and then the huge majority (that didn't become rectangles) were covered over with cover-up paint and repainted to match the yellow background. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonthert Posted May 25, 2006 Author Share Posted May 25, 2006 [url="http://www.uploadfile.info"][img]http://www.uploadfile.info/uploads/5b82609244.jpg[/img][/url]This is a view of the hookah and hose racks in the prep room...from picture three, the panoramic view, take eight steps backwards and turn around and you could take this picture. Lots of leather hoses and Syrian Hookahs! Note the games beyond the hookah rack, in the background. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonthert Posted May 25, 2006 Author Share Posted May 25, 2006 [url="http://www.uploadfile.info"][img]http://www.uploadfile.info/uploads/e3305b5fd7.jpg[/img][/url]My Kashmir Peach hookah...Hellllo baby! Helllo. Yes, you, thats you on the picture! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonthert Posted May 25, 2006 Author Share Posted May 25, 2006 Note the store's Tangiers black/castille blue heads on the shelves behind the hookah. The top shelf is for non-invasive flavors, the lower shelf is for specific heads for sticky flavors. The stack of black tubs to the left of the stereo (you can see the 400 disk DVD changer...its the black rectangle, top left) are developmental flavors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonthert Posted May 25, 2006 Author Share Posted May 25, 2006 [url="http://www.uploadfile.info"][img]http://www.uploadfile.info/uploads/0c1667f1e4.jpg[/img][/url]My baby again, you can see more of the stereo, left, and the large, light blue tub between the hookah and the stack of black tubs is my Kashmir Peach tub. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonthert Posted May 25, 2006 Author Share Posted May 25, 2006 [url="http://www.uploadfile.info"][img]http://www.uploadfile.info/uploads/d9a59777d6.jpg[/img][/url]OK, that prep table, that my hookah is on is directly across from the hookah/hose racks, notice a window behind them, where the TV is, beyond that.From the prep table, with my hookah on, we move to the left, through another door and are in the manufacturing room, we bear to the left towards a small room in the middle of the manufacturing room...it is the tobacco vault...also known as the chopping and weighing room. Those are the mixing tubs, top in front of us, one for each flavor. The blue drum with green nozzle is the glycerine drum. The grey rectangle to the left, rear is the most expensive piece of equipment in the facility...a $4000 scale that will measure up to 25000 g to .1g. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonthert Posted May 25, 2006 Author Share Posted May 25, 2006 That is tobacco on the ground...and molasses jugs, left rear.[url="http://www.uploadfile.info"][img]http://www.uploadfile.info/uploads/a4251c97a7.jpg[/img][/url]Now this is the table to the left, where the scale is, still in the tobacco vault.That is raw, uncut tobacco. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonthert Posted May 25, 2006 Author Share Posted May 25, 2006 [url="http://www.uploadfile.info"][img]http://www.uploadfile.info/uploads/d29f47a700.jpg[/img][/url]We turn around and see the panorama of the manufacturing room. The door at the left is a bathroom. The metal pans front, left are the pots we cook the tobacco in, one batch at a time.The stack of tubs, front right are the recycled tubs for the lounge's tobacco. That thing next to the bathroom is a 12' ladder (the ceilings are 13-14' high!). The door to the rear, right is a door to a tiny patio/outside. The large white tub in the middle of the photo is the sorting tub, where aged, cooked, unflavored tobacco is sorted, clumps are broken up, stems and foreign plant material are removed. To the far left, front, next to the bathroom, is the refrigerator where we keep canned drinks for the lounge...to the left of that is the door back to the hookah prep area where my hookah is waiting for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonthert Posted May 25, 2006 Author Share Posted May 25, 2006 [url="http://www.uploadfile.info"][img]http://www.uploadfile.info/uploads/9868050897.jpg[/img][/url]We move to the left, with our back to the refrigerator (which was out of view in the last picture) and turn around to face the far west wall where the stove is...where the tobacco is cooked. Note the rack of cooking pots on the far left. Not to mention the lovely trashcan to the immediate right of the stove and by flavoring library, a collection of all the flavorings I have accumulated over the years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonthert Posted May 25, 2006 Author Share Posted May 25, 2006 We move to the right, bearing to the right of the tobacco vault and there is a narrow hallway that contains the aging racks for the unflavored tobacco.[url="http://www.uploadfile.info"][img]http://www.uploadfile.info/uploads/d65ac27da9.jpg[/img][/url] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonthert Posted May 25, 2006 Author Share Posted May 25, 2006 [url="http://www.uploadfile.info"][img]http://www.uploadfile.info/uploads/80fc45feb6.jpg[/img][/url]This is a really bad picture of the unflavored, aged tobacco in the sorting tubs...where the tobacco goes after the aging racks...remember its back on the table in the middle of the manufacturing room. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonthert Posted May 25, 2006 Author Share Posted May 25, 2006 [url="http://www.uploadfile.info"][img]http://www.uploadfile.info/uploads/bb3e7c43a4.jpg[/img][/url]From the aging racks, we continue down the hallway (all 7' of it) and go through a door to the "lost lounge room". This room used to be part of the main lounge but was blocked off...you can't see it, from the photos, but when you first walked through the door from the manufacturing room, you would be able to see a white patch of drywall about the middle of the right wall, which would have led us back into the lounge, right where the purple wall with silver decorations is...directly to the left and behind the front door.This picture is the bigger part of my DVD collection. I understand PSP will be big...I'm betting against it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonthert Posted May 25, 2006 Author Share Posted May 25, 2006 That odd, blue object in the top, right corner is the carpet that covers the front window of the west suite. The east suite is the suite that contains the lounge and the hookah prep room where my hookah is still waiting for me.This next picture is the retail rack of Tangiers ceramic heads.[url="http://www.uploadfile.info"][img]http://www.uploadfile.info/uploads/4f29c09262.jpg[/img][/url]I added a heavenly glow for those of you who like Tangiers heads.The two hookahs on the right foreground is a hookah for sale...it is on saw-horse table...thats the level of marketing I'm on...my prices for hookahs is unbeatable, however. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonthert Posted May 26, 2006 Author Share Posted May 26, 2006 This is the last picture...[url="http://www.uploadfile.info"][img]http://www.uploadfile.info/uploads/f2fb4a4bc3.jpg[/img][/url]We've come full circle, we moved back through the lost lounge room and turned around to look down the hallway, through the door where the aging racks are (far, top left, out of the picture). You can see the ladder again, in the distance. That couch is a private lounge area for friends on busy nights, directly across from the DVD racks. That stack of black rectangles, on the right is the stack of DVDs you saw on the far right of the picture of the DVD racks. Notice that the walls in this room were decorated, too. If you were to fly through this wall, to the right of the door and the hall, you would be in the tobacco vault. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrunkenWizard Posted May 26, 2006 Share Posted May 26, 2006 Where is the pic of the man himself? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Pope Posted May 26, 2006 Share Posted May 26, 2006 Cool! It's neat to see how the stuff gets manufactured. Great pics. Hopefully I'll be down there sometime and can drop in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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