Hamilton businesses celebrate customers who supported them through the pandemic Businesses celebrate customers who kept them afloat during pandemic and last updated 2021-06-02 23:40:00-04 HAMILTON, Ohio â Seven Hamilton businesses celebrated an end to Ohio s mask mandate by showing appreciation for the customers who supported them through the pandemic. Those folks have kept us afloat, said Brad Baker, owner of Pinball Garage. All we wanted to do is scrape by just like anyone else. We knew we weren t going to get rich in all of this. We were afraid we were going to have to close down. And we didn t.