Paradise Lost - Home Tiki Bars

B bamalamalu Tiki Socialite Joined: Mar 20, 2006 Posts: 1294	B bamalamalu Posted posted on Thu, Mar 17, 2011 4:44 PM Our house was built in 1962 and one of the things that made me a little sad when we bought it was knowing that at one point there'd been a bar in the downstairs tv/family room. It didn't look like anything too spectacular - the bar itself had been pulled out and stuck in the backyard; just a simple wood bar frame. Covered in decaying dark wood paneling, the room just seemed like it must have been a pretty cool lounge area back in the day. I kept wishing I could see pictures of it from that time. We recently needed to make some repairs to the walls, so the old broken paneling had to be removed. Imagine my heartbreak when panels on the upper part of the walls came off and revealed this: Naturally, none of it's salvageable. I guess we really did buy the right house. Just 4 or 5 decades too late.

Our house was built in 1962 and one of the things that made me a little sad when we bought it was knowing that at one point there'd been a bar in the downstairs tv/family room. It didn't look like anything too spectacular - the bar itself had been pulled out and stuck in the backyard; just a simple wood bar frame. Covered in decaying dark wood paneling, the room just seemed like it must have been a pretty cool lounge area back in the day. I kept wishing I could see pictures of it from that time.

We recently needed to make some repairs to the walls, so the old broken paneling had to be removed. Imagine my heartbreak when panels on the upper part of the walls came off and revealed this:

Naturally, none of it's salvageable. I guess we really did buy the right house. Just 4 or 5 decades too late.

Post #580678 by bamalamalu on Thu, Mar 17, 2011 4:44 PM