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Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Girls, I Think This Was The Old Vero Beach "Bamboo Lounge" From My Youth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


                               Save for the name change and the sign, it looks exactly the same, as I recognized it right away.  I always thought this was the inspiration for "The Slow Club" in David Lynch's 1986 masterpiece, "Blue Velvet."



                               The tragedy is in all my years of visiting Vero Beach--when my father and his siblings all lived there--I never tot to visit this place.  I did not drive, and I could not get anyone to drop me off there.  Who knows if I would have come back?  Who knows what goes on in there?



                                The building is still sleazy and cheap, as befits it, but I love the Betty Boop logo, and the name "Shadows Lounge" is OK.



                               Ah, youth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  What memories it brings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2 comments:

Victoria said...

Would surely be too dusty in there for my allergies; I want the sign for my living room though!!

The Raving Queen said...

Victoria, I love the sign too. But I would love to have a drink inside. It would be like "Blue Velvet" in real life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!