I was a line cook at the Mooring Restaurant in Bay Village in 1973 when John Maschal, who owned Bay Village, bought the Rip Tide Bar. It took awhile to get municipal approval to move the license to The Tide Lounge in Bay Village, which did not happen until early 1974. During the last summer of the Rip Tide Bar in 1973, I was asked to cover for the cook at the Rip Tide Bar on his one night off, which I did. At that point, the Rip Tide Bar was a remnant of the 1940s and it showed. People, mostly 40 to 70, used to sit at the bar and play instruments (tambourine and rattles) while Herb Fieler played the organ. After the bar closed, Maschal still owned the building and from 1974 into the 1980s the bands playing at the Tide Lounge used to stay in the apartment above the old Rip Tide. When I was executive chef at the Mooring Restaurant in 1980, I lived in the apartment above the old Rip Tide that summer.