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Tropical Acres Reopens Tomorrow

Tropical Acres reopens to the public tomorrow at 4:30 p.m. for dinner, its first since the restaurant was stricken by a fire August 30. Since 1949, Tropical Acres has stood as a relic of an era in Florida when men wore jackets to dine and the Everglades started just west...
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Tropical Acres reopens to the public tomorrow at 4:30 p.m. for dinner, its first since the restaurant was stricken by a fire August 30.

Since 1949, Tropical

Acres has stood as a relic of an era in Florida when men wore jackets

to dine and the Everglades started just west of the Florida East Coast Railway train tracks.

The restaurant was as known for the simple steaks and fried shrimp it

served as it was for its neon sign pointing tourists west from Federal

Highway.

Michael Greenlaw says that while assessing damage, workers found the

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original tongue-and-groove walls behind paneling, inspiring his family

to restore the restaurant to the way it had looked in the 1940s. The

rebuild included plumbing and electrical work in

the kitchen as well as new carpet and wall coverings in the dining room.

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Seventy-five percent of the kitchen equipment was salvaged.

“The city has been great in helping us get

back on our feet,” says Greenlaw. Between 55 and 60 of the original 65 workers

are slated to return.

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This 1970s menu is part of an exhibit in the Broward County Library:

“Eating in South Florida: 1880s -1980s,” on display through the end of

the month. Can’t make the reopening? Look to this space Wednesday for the update.


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