In addition to the bat, the family made tempotary forays into the restaurant and gaming business. They opened. a snackette and arcade, which, Pauline said, became the children's domain.

At this point, Joe, who has said little, asked his wife, "You remember we used to put pool tables island wide?" "Oh yeah," she said with a laugh as she reached out to touch him. "See how good this is? You pick up where I forget."

As it turns out, the enterprising couple bought pool tables and, later, jukeboxes and placed them in bars across Antigua.

		It should come as no surprise that it was Pauline who would go once a month to the various places to clear the coin boxes and pay the proprietors of the respective bats their one-third cut. And it should also be no surprise that, on a trip to a friend's wedding in Grenada, Joe, with his partner in tow, went island-hopping in search of bars to place their pool tables and jukeboxes. As a result of that excursion, the Francises serviced bars in Grenada, St. Lucia and St. Vincent.

A combination of too much responsibility and apathy saw Pauline turning over that
Pauline who would go once a month to the aspect of the business to Roosie.
By 1989, in July to be exact, Joe's latest idea saw the business, which was two family-run
bars, expand to include Kennedy's Liquor Ltd: on Nellie Robinson Street.

By this time the bar on Prince Klass Street was Joe and Novelle's domain, so Pauline took
up the mantle at the Liquor World. She remembers educating herself on the various products she wanted to sell and going to obtaining them locally and overseas, because Joe did not want to travel. But, for her, the sky was the limit.

"One of my most unplanned business trips was when we were trying to get the Ibis brandy," she related. "I got a three-day visa and went to Guadeloupe. I went early in the morning even before the place opened at 8 a.m., and by 9 a.m. I knew I . wasn't getting anything. Then and there I decided. I already had the visa and I just said, 'I'm going to France.' I wasn't dressed for the weather, but I bought a ticket and went. For the first day - I got in late - I didn't move from the hotel. I spent that day going through the yellow pages, and, eventually, the next day I was able to make phone calls. Looking back, I did things I would not dare do now.

"There was a man in Bordeaux (who was a supplier for Beehive and Napoleon brandy),
and I spoke to him at length on the phone, and (then) I took a flight to Bordeaux to meet
him. When I was on the flight I said, 'Suppose this man is a con artist?' And I had
money on me, you know. But that's when you have faith in God," Pauline said.

To this day, Kennedy's Liquor World still does business with that particular individual.