Vassalboro's topless coffee shop back in business

Vassalboro's topless coffee shop back in business


By The Associated Press

VASSALBORO, Maine — The Grand View Topless Coffee shop in Vassalboro is back in business.

On Tuesday the town planning board gave Donald Crabtree permission to operate the shop out of an office trailer on his Route 3 property.

The coffee shop reopened Wednesday morning. Crabtree says business is slow, but customers are starting to trickle in.

The opening of the Grand View Topless Coffee Shop last February angered many residents in Vassalboro, a small town outside of Augusta.

Officials continue to investigate the fire that destroyed the shop in June just hours after Crabtree talked with local officials about making the business more like a strip club.

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Guess I'm taking a trip this weekend. God I love coffee!

yaaaaay - I was praying that the Town "Fathers" of Vassalboro would be in favor of this - after all it does bring in customers other than Coffee drinkers to their town huh? And with all the other publicity of the arson thing on the other Coffee shop --- well --- that was horrid huh!!! Mr Crabtree - good luck and best wishes - I know you have the trailer for now, but I hope you get your new place up and running ASAP.

this time i think he'll opt for fundie...ermm..i mean fire insurance?

Call Obama and get a laon, he is putting people to work. And yes, opt for the insurance and maybe a video security system.

Not sure what kind of a father would let his twin daughters parade around topless as waitresses in a coffee shop so that men could gawk at them. It seems pretty weird to me.

Have you seen the peple who work there???? Ewwwwwwww. Yuck. It represents Maine really well. Fat and out of shape!!

Watered down coffee served by chubby girls in a trailer...happens all over Maine daily.

bottamless cup of coffee, no topless cup of coffee- would you like a little milk in that?

On 11/11/09 at 5:36 PM, Beelzebubba wrote: Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

Watered down coffee served by chubby girls in a trailer...happens all over Maine daily.

Man are you right on. In the Banger area, north, south, east, and west it's been happening for YEARS now. Today, in every RFD nowhere in every state it's an epidemic. Now they've really got their heads in the sand. They overload the makeup, get the hair done, wear "fashions" that they shouldn't put on because the flab falls out all over the place, nails, toes, ear piercings, and oh yeah, the freaking tattoos. They are blind and think that all of this makes them look "appealing" and the weight is ignored. It's a false feel good thing. I have a granddaughter 21 years old in this mode. She says she knows it but no matter what she says she does the opposite and keeps adding the pounds. It's something between the ears and not being a shrink I don't understand it. I'm from the old common sense generation(s) and today that appears to be a dying way of thinking.

If I ever get that desperate to see some boobies...it'll be time to commit myself.

now that the yes on one folks have stopped gay marriage (for now); they will likely put their sights on other people and businesses (such as this one) that they see fit to destroy.

What???? These girls are the owners daughters????

downeastdave,

that's probably what happened this past spring when someone burned the original building down. The fire broke out in the middle of the night and miraculously, a crew from Belfast Ambulance was returning from taking a patient to a hospital in Augusta and saw the fire. The crew got everyone up and out of the place---it was closed for the night, but the owner and his family lived in the same building---they could have died.

How come there are no pictures with this article ?

Coffee and boobs, probably a great way for men (or women) to start their days. I say yay, if people don't like it, don't go there.

What? They set fire to the building while someone was inside asleep? That's attemped muder. Why don't I remember reading about that?

Good luck Donny- we'll try to stay abreast.............................

topless old fat women, thats real nice, what is wrong with the world today. Is'nt that Sin? are these women mothers? and do people actually go there? this is discusting

Finally a place where the lesbians and straight men can go to talk with each other. Who said we had nothing in common?

Where's the pictures???

Maybe Don has a real good idea here. I can see it all now, franchises all up and down the East coast. Run your coffee shop out of a genuine Maine office trailer. Fat topless waitresses extra. Crabtree's shop of horrors. Our waitresses ain't much to look at but our sticky buns are sure sweet. Gonna be a big shortage of office trailers i tell ya. Ya gotta get in on the ground floor if ya want to make it big. Maine, the way life should be. yup

Good luck Don. Keep INS on the place this time:) Lot of jealous prudes out there might try to burn you out again.

where in the article does it say that his daughters are the topless waitresses? It doesnt either the people are making assumptions or have been there themselves either way dont bash it because your are being judgemental or dont bash it because you were there and didnt like what you saw. Bottom line anything to help business in the towns of america is good even if it is a topless coffee shop, america thrives on nudity caffeine and drugs why not give them what they want its smart business practice.

Any leads on who burned it down?

yes they are his daughters, and yes the women have children, if you had read the article when his shop burnt, you,d know this. what do we call people who let there daughters parade around half naked, so they can make a buck, whats next the grand kids? glad i dont live there, how embarrasing vassalboro.one eye in the middle of your forhead, and one tooth.

I don't know what you'd call him, but sounds like the next "reality TV" hit to me. (And that's why I don't watch TV.)

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