NEW TENANTS OF THE HISTORIC PALM LOUNGE SAY IT WILL BE HUNKY-DORY

(Ed.'s Note: It's been months that the old Palm Lounge on Elizabeth and Eighth streets closed and the property owner acquired a writ of possession of the premises after the former tenant was asked to vacate the premises. Since then, many local residents – who used to drop by the lounge and grab a famous hamburger and quaff a few brewskies – have been wondering what is to become of the historical building.

Well, one of our readers inadvertently walked into through the wrought iron gate and walked inside the doors, only to be met by a cavernous shell of what the Palm used to be. There was no sign of the bar that ran almost the entire left side of the wall, no tables or chairs, no televisions sets, wall paintings or decor.

A crew of workers was scraping the floor and a person who appeared to be the supervisor in charge – or maybe one of the owners – hurried over to met him and tell him that the old Palm Lounge did not exist anymore.

"What's it going to be now?," he said he asked the man.
"It's going to be called the Hunky Dory," replied the man. "It'll be a lounge, but with a unique twist that you have never seen in Brownsville. That's all I can tell you.
According to our source, by the look of things, the new tenants have a lot of work to do before the new business opens, and it may be quite different than what it looked like under Johnny Quiroz, or even after Edwin Hernandez ran the place.

For now, however, we hope that the work gets done before Charro Days, so we can go back to crowding in there to watch the Brownsville Independent School District's Children's Parade and hook up with old friends in February.)