Tim Tower
- Apr 6, 2016
- 4 min
Billy's Journal
After closing last year, my main focus was to get our winter projects list in order and to start moving on them. After the previous...
Tim Tower
- Nov 10, 2015
- 2 min
Billy's Journal
The Barnacle Billy's season came and went. It goes by more quickly every year. Looking back, it was a very successful year, both in...
Tim Tower
- Jul 8, 2015
- 3 min
Billy's Journal
It's been over a month since I last wrote. At that time lobster prices were dropping. And, indeed, prices on pound and a quarter and...
Tim Tower
- Jun 2, 2015
- 2 min
Billy's Journal
We started to have complaints about the web cam on Sunday. I took at look at the camera (from the computer) which made me think it was a...
Tim Tower
- May 29, 2015
- 4 min
Billy's Journal
The 26th of May would have been our father's birthday. He would have been 88 years old. There has been so much going on that I would...
Tim Tower
- May 7, 2015
- 2 min
Billy's Journal
The month of April will be most noted for the high price of lobster meat and lobster products. At one point we were paying $58/pound for...
Tim Tower
- Apr 3, 2015
- 1 min
Billy's Journal
Yesterday was the best opening day we have ever had at Barnacle Billy's. Not only was it a financial success on every level, there were...
Tim Tower
- Apr 1, 2015
- 1 min
Billy's Journal
The valet parking lot is devoid of snow, it has been swept and the fence around it, where it was hit by the town plows this winter, has...
Tim Tower
- Mar 29, 2015
- 3 min
Billy's Journal
The winter was one of the coldest winters we have seen in many years. Overall it probably wasn't as cold as the ambient temperature of...
Tim Tower
- Oct 19, 2014
- 3 min
Billy's Journal
We closed Barnacle Billy's (original) last night, the first Barnacle Billy's restaurant my father started over fifty-three years ago. My...
Tim Tower
- May 25, 2014
- 2 min
Billy's Journal
Today would have been our father's (Billy's) birthday. He would have been 87 years old today. And it was a day in weather that he would...
Tim Tower
- Apr 7, 2014
- 2 min
Billy's Journal
Opening weekend followed opening day with better than expected business but coming in at third overall. It was a cool weekend but a...
Tim Tower
- Apr 4, 2014
- 1 min
Billy's Journal
Opening day was better than anticipated. Except for being a bit cold, the weather was perfect. Sunny cloudless skies started the day...
Tim Tower
- Apr 2, 2014
- 2 min
Billy's Journal
So ends the coldest winter we have seen in Ogunquit for over twenty years. I'm sure we have had colder and snowier winters in the past....
Tim Tower
- Jan 28, 2014
- 2 min
Billy's Journal
After a small warming trend last weekend, we went back into the deep freeze. Just before the freeze up, Central Maine Power was down,...
Tim Tower
- Jan 16, 2014
- 1 min
Billy's Journal
The winter routine is upon us. We passed our liquor/fire inspection for both restaurants yesterday. Court and I went through the...
Tim Tower
- Dec 23, 2013
- 2 min
Billy's Journal
It has been a roller coaster ride for my family and I at Barnacle Billy's since the end of July. On August 22, 2013, a local fisherman...
Tim Tower
- Jul 19, 2013
- 2 min
Billy's Journal
Billy Tower, father of the four of us (Meg, Court, Cathy and me - Tim) passed away in our mother's arms, Bunny Clark Tower, at 3:00 PM...