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Kissimmee, Florida: Big Bamboo Lounge (Gone)

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Big Bamboo Lounge

This confirms that the Big Bamboo Lounge is definitely alive and well. We saw your posting about the decrepit looking exterior...it's a real shame you didn't make it inside. The bar opens at 3 pm daily. Inside, it's a Hawaiian tiki bar motif, with everything from WWII flyboy memorabilia to scads of really great early Disney stuff, including original line drawings by animators who dropped by and left the drawings as "tips" for the bartenders. The Big Bamboo was the only thing out there on HWY 192 when Disney was under construction -- and thus, became a hangout for construction workers, artists, executives, you name it. Now it is home to a cast of regulars including lots of chefs, caterers, and characters who remain nameless. It reminds my fiance and I of Cabbage Key (accessible only by boat) in Southwest Florida. We like Big Bamboo so much, we're holding our wedding reception there in October.

[JoNell Patterson, 09/28/1997]
Big Bamboo Lounge

The last Xanadu, Home of the Future, is closed in Kissimmee, FL. The tourism electricity on Hwy. 192 has moved off in both directions, and this little jog in the road is dead dead dead. Right across the street is the mysterious, decrepit and, by all exterior inspections -- DESERTED -- Big Bamboo Lounge. Guess we were there too early in the day -- Tom Genovese informs us that "this establishment is alive and well, having just celebrated it's 20th year of operation."

[RA, 06/09/1997]

Big Bamboo Lounge

Hours:
Hurricane ravaged - closed 2004.
Status:
Gone

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