Bamboo Lounge, Kissimee/Orlando, FL (bar) - Locating Tiki

I ikitnrev Tiki Socialite D.C. / Virginia Joined: Jul 27, 2002 Posts: 1325	I ikitnrev Posted posted on Tue, Jul 5, 2005 4:47 PM More bad news concerning the Bamboo Lounge, according to a July 4th article in the Orlando Sentinel. Not only did the Bamboo Lounge experience hurricane damage last year, since then vandals have done additional damage to the place. The article quotes one source as saying "At this point, the place is pretty much destroyed and vandalized and gone. So even if it did open back up, it still wouldn't be the same." Two daughters of the original owner, Bruce Muir, would still like to re-open the lounge, but they are unable to locate their father's widow - a woman Muir married 6 months before he died (in 1999) who happens to be the main heir of the Lounge. Meanwhile, the executor of the will sold the liquor license at a fraction of its value, and - this is hard to believe - cancelled the insurance on the building shortly before hurricane season. The full article, and a couple of pictures, can be located for a short time by doing a google news search on 'Bamboo Lounge Disney'- it is currently the article that pops up first. I visited the Bamboo Lounge after the 2003 Hukilau -- it was a welcome and rustic oasis in the middle of Disney commercialism, and I was and still am saddened to see that it is closed. Vern

More bad news concerning the Bamboo Lounge, according to a July 4th article in the Orlando Sentinel.

Not only did the Bamboo Lounge experience hurricane damage last year, since then vandals have done additional damage to the place. The article quotes one source as saying "At this point, the place is pretty much destroyed and vandalized and gone. So even if it did open back up, it still wouldn't be the same."

Two daughters of the original owner, Bruce Muir, would still like to re-open the lounge, but they are unable to locate their father's widow - a woman Muir married 6 months before he died (in 1999) who happens to be the main heir of the Lounge. Meanwhile, the executor of the will sold the liquor license at a fraction of its value, and - this is hard to believe - cancelled the insurance on the building shortly before hurricane season.

The full article, and a couple of pictures, can be located for a short time by doing a google news search on 'Bamboo Lounge Disney'- it is currently the article that pops up first.

I visited the Bamboo Lounge after the 2003 Hukilau -- it was a welcome and rustic oasis in the middle of Disney commercialism, and I was and still am saddened to see that it is closed.

Vern

Post #169794 by ikitnrev on Tue, Jul 5, 2005 4:47 PM