Fire Consumes Bimini Landmark

Posted Jan 18th 2006 2:59PM by Willy Volk
Filed under: Media, Stories, Atlantic

The sign marking the entrance to The Compleat Angler For those of you who’ve had the good fortune of diving in Bimini, this news might be sad for you. So sit. Please, sit down.

Early Friday morning, a fire consumed the Ernest Hemingway museum and The Compleat Angler bar. Owner Julian Brown is presumed dead. Police said the blaze leveled the wood structure in Alice Town and destroyed hundreds of the photographs and various Hemingway memorabilia the Angler showcased. Ugh. I’m sick at the thought: the Compleat Angler made the best rum runners in the world. Moreover, you could easily spend hours in there looking at the old photos on the walls.

FYI – Hemingway hung out in Bimini in the 1930s, chugging at The Angler between fishing trips. His novel The Old Man and The Sea was said to be inspired by his fishing exploits in the Bahamas and Cuba, and he worked on To Have and Have Not in Bimini.

[Via Dive-Spots]

Reader Comments

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1. We just read the news of the tragic fire in Southern Boating and would like to express our deepest sympathy at the loss of Mr. Brown and the Angler.

Both will be missed,
Ross and Susan

Posted at 8:09AM on Mar 9th 2006 by Ross and Susan Davis SUE'S SUN

2. My name is lindsay ellis and i have been going to bimini and the compleat angler all my life. The news about the compleat angler and julin brown made me sick and it still does today. I am going to do waht ever i can to try to restore the hemingway pictures and donate money to help rebuild it. I wish i could actually help build it but i have school in key largo, but you never know anything can happen..

- RIP Julian -

Posted at 12:17AM on Mar 24th 2006 by Lindsay Ellis

3. Been in contact with some folks, we would like to try to collect any and all pics from inside and outside the Angler. There is already talk of rebuilding. We need to try and reproduce all we can of that history.

e-mail is Doogle101@aol.com

Capt. Doogle on Boondoggle (Ken)

Posted at 12:00AM on Jan 22nd 2006 by Ken VanderWerf

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