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#310313 12/14/2023 10:47 AM
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Local businessman and former politician,Vanterpool, has annouced he is buying Quito's Hotel; and bar and restaurant..not sure what the $$ is..yet.End of an era.This man is buying up lots of the BVI's..already bought Pusser's and The Rock Cafe on VG. Its the end of an era for me with Quito's gone..

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Manpot #310319 12/14/2023 03:33 PM
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Is that Marc?

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Never a good thing when one entity holds too much…..

Manpot #310368 12/15/2023 01:26 PM
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I used to live in a small resort city where one entity bought many of the restaurants and businesses. In the end they just became mediocre.

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Mal--Is Quito still on island?


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I hear he's here right now but living on Maui much of the time witgh wife Kim

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OK, that's kind of a shame, for the BVI's anyway.


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Big losss.....and "Pusser's at Quito's" just doesnt work for me..

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The first time my wife and I went to Tortola (land-based) was 1996. We were on Patouche II with Frenchie and Claudia skimming across the Sir Francis Drake Channel listening to Quito’s Paradise album the day before we left. We had to return to hear him live. The era ended for me when he retired from performing.


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My kids first heard him play when they were pretty small and were enamored with him. We mistakingly didn't buy a CD at the time so I was able to contact him and was sent complimentary signed copies I put in their stockings that year. It's now become a tradition to listen to him about a month out from any BVI trip. My kids would always ask "Is it time for Quito yet?"
It's bittersweet now though knowing we will never see him play again.

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yes, Mark Vanterpool

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Hearing he has plans to turn the hotel into "for sale" condos...

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A million a piece, I hear.

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We’ll take two 😉


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Does anyone know if Quito is still writing/recording?
Looks like he was playing at his place over Thanksgiving?


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No one at Quito’s I guess…


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