B.O.B.'s Yer Uncle

The B.O.B. is a multi-venue entertainment complex -- "4 floors of fun" -- "several restaurants, a cigar lounge, a microbrewery, banquet rooms, a comedy club, a dance club, a billiards hall, live jazz and a wine cellar" -- that once upon a time was a warehouse building serving Grand Rapids. B.O.B. = Big Old Building. Old indeed: it was state-of-the art when Teddy Roosevelt lived in the White House.

Multistory warehouse buildings are now, however, as obsolete as butter churns, but fortunately fine old brick buildings can be adaptively reused. Sometimes. This one seems to have worked well.

The wedding reception took up part of the fourth floor, which would count as a banquet room, but I didn't make it to the microbrewery or the cigar lounge or anywhere else except the elevator and the glass bridge pictured below.

The glass bridge crossed a gap in the structure, and you had to walk across it from the elevator door on the fourth floor to the reception room. Actually only the walkway was glass, while the handrail was metal. It felt as solid as any completely metal bridge, and more solid that a lot of wooden bridges, but it unnerved Lilly in particular. I liked it. I don't get to walk across nearly enough glass bridges.