{"id":54324,"date":"2025-11-20T17:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T17:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/54324\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T17:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T17:07:09","slug":"cape-coral-sports-bar-marks-three-decades-with-block-party-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/54324\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Coral Sports Bar Marks Three Decades With Block Party Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BackStreets Sports Bar will host a block party on Nov. 22 from 3-10 p.m. to mark 30 years in business. Live music will play, and food trucks will be available.<\/p>\n<p>Shelly Walton launched the venue on Dec. 1, 1995, inside a closed pizza shop one street behind Cape Coral Parkway. The place began as Marty Castillo&#8217;s Upper Deck, named after her then-husband, who played for the Detroit Tigers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I maxed out my credit cards, taking multiple cash advances to the tune of $100,000 to do it,&#8221; Walton said, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.news-press.com\/story\/life\/food\/2025\/11\/18\/backstreets-sports-bar-celebrates-30-years-in-cape-coral\/87249524007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">News-Press<\/a>. &#8220;I found a liquor license in escrow and financed it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Walton purchased her partners&#8217; shares during her divorce in 1999. She renamed the bar BackStreets. Her staff grew from eight workers to 60 over the course of three decades.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We offer health benefits, vacations, and 401(k)s,&#8221; said Walton. &#8220;These are real jobs with real perks, and we&#8217;re hardly ever hiring.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The kitchen makes food from scratch with quality ingredients. Staff members mix their own dough.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The block party is for guests 21 or older. Entry is free, but a limited number of $100 VIP tickets can be purchased.<\/p>\n<p>BackStreets Sports Bar sits at 915 SE 47th Terrace in Cape Coral.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BackStreets Sports Bar will host a block party on Nov. 22 from 3-10 p.m. to mark 30 years&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-54324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}