Shit. The Balinese is gone.

[Gold Metal Flake]

http://www.balineseroom.net

http://www.khou.com/topstories/stories/khou080913_mh_balinese_destroyed.71c98401.html

GALVESTON, Texas -- A historic Galveston, Texas, nightclub that once attracted some of the world's top entertainers was washed away by the storm surge of Hurricane Ike.

The 79-year-old Balinese Room was once a popular dance and gambling hall. It hosted performances by Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope, George Burns and the Marx Brothers in the 1940s and '50s. Howard Hughes was a patron.

The structure along Galveston's sea wall had extended 600 feet out into the Gulf of Mexico. The building was added to the Natoinal Register of Historic Places in 1997.

It had survived Hurricane Carla in 1961 and Hurricane Alicia in 1983, but Ike was too much for it as the storm's surge ripped the building apart early Saturday.

[panader0]

1. Too bad. I had never heard of it until the ZZ Top song

[Venceremos]

2. What a shame

[nickyt]

3. Hate to see our old places go. Sad news.

[TomInTib]

4. Oh, damn. I had some High Old Times at that place.

I thought I saw the site on one of the news clips.

There has never been, and there will never be, another place like The Balinese Room.

[MuseRider]

5. Is there any news

About The Strand Theater or the Opera house?

This is such sad news.