The little sheep, a genuine product of Scotland, and named, appropriately, Haggis, traveled extensively with my girl and made a brief appearance at Kona Village Resort where he was sometimes found at the Shipwreck Bar. He preferred these:
but he was happy with anything with alcohol in it and a smoke. Sadly Kona Village was destroyed by a tsunami several years ago and hopes fade that it will ever be reborn. It was a timeless place that exuded happiness.
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Sadly a classic "Tiki" restaurant & bar on the New Orleans lakefront--the Bali Ha"i--another timeless place-- burned down a few years after the lakefront amusement park, Pontchartrain Beach on whose grounds/beach it sat, closed in the 80s. Opened in 1952, it and the amusement park owned by Harry Batt Sr, father of Brian Batt of the TV series Mad Men.
Curtis, you've simply GOT to read the hist of it in the local weekly "Gambit" on-line @ www.bestofneworleans.com/gambit/bali-hai-revisited/Content?oid=1278850 A GREAT article about an "only in New Orleans" "institution."
Very nice and I'll bet it's sorely missed. I was amused to hear it called lush since that was the overwhelming New Orleans left me with. Lush. There was a lot of lush. Next post up is for another celebrated place I enjoyed.
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