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Tiki Central / Locating Tiki / Boom Boom Room, Lansing, MI (bar)

Post #576251 by JDan on Tue, Feb 15, 2011 2:14 PM

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JDan posted on Tue, Feb 15, 2011 2:14 PM

We used to frequent the Boom Boom Room in the late 70's early 80's. The Boom Boom Room was originally the bar side of the Ziegler's Charcoal House which basically had an open grilling stainless steel kitchen and an eating area. That was before my time. The kitchen was still there but unused. The eating area was quite dated and not nearly as cool as the bar. The whole place was a bar when I went there. A friend that I took there said he expected Humphrey Bogart in a white suit to appear right from Casa Blanca. A few funny stories (that I'm willing to share) follow. First when you sit down and have a few, you didn't think the drinks were that strong, until you tried to stand. I saw many who weaved quite a bit (not me of course). Falling off barstools there was a pretty regular occurrence. Naturally the bathrooms were in the basement. It took some well lubricated individuals quite a while to get back to the table. One time about twenty of us were there partying when one of the group who was not drinking due to medication, passed out (basically to little food while on meds). We were all summarily waltzed out the back door. The drinks mostly came in the tall cylindrical glasses of the 50's and 60's. You could get a larger drink that used what originally was the container for candles. You know the ones, they were larger at the bottom and had a sort of bubble texture to the glass. OK, I'm sure I have more, but I lost too many brain cells there. Finally there was THEE drink! I have one of the Aloha Orgy drink containers (basically an ornate Tiki bowl on a short pedestal). The drink was a light beige color, had 7 different kinds of liquor in it, and was quite sweet. The flaming 151 in the "volcano" was pretty awesome. You were given 4 straws which were about a foot and a half in length (yes it served 4 at a minimum). They may have raised that to 8, but I'm again not sure I remember that much detail. I'll take a picture of the Aloha Orgy bowl and post.