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Jimbo Luznar

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2012

    Jimbo Luznar Doesn't Want to Forfeit Jimbo's Place After All, According to Latest Letter to City

    Remember how Jimbo Luznar, the 85-year-old founder of the bizarre Virginia Key hangout Jimbo's Place, agreed to turn the site over to the City of Miami? Well now -- according to a letter signed by him -- he wants to keep the site in his family, to become a "green" kayak rental and active ... More >>

  • News

    March 22, 2012

    Jimbo's Place is closing, and a crazy family feud is to blame

    Remember how Jimbo Luznar, the 85-year-old founder of the bizarre Virginia Key hangout Jimbo's Place, agreed to turn the site over to the City of Miami? Well now -- according to a letter signed by him -- he wants to keep the site in his family, to become a "green" kayak rental and active ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2012

    Jimbo's Family Feud: The Sordid Real Story Behind The Iconic Bar's End

    ​Miamians reacted with horror this week to news that the end is nigh for Jimbo's, the open-air beer-and-smoked-fish joint that's been Miami's weirdest, most beloved hangout for nearly six decades. But no one has yet told of the Old Testament-style sibling feud -- including accusations of drug use, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2012

    Jimbo's Sad Letter to Tomas Regalado: "I Would Like to Give the Site Back to the City of Miami"

    Here is the nail in the coffin of Jimbo's, Miami's weirdest bar which has existed in a state of quasi-legality for almost six decades. We couldn't believe it when we heard that founder Jimbo Luznar's daughter was exercising her power of attorney over the ailing 85-year-old man to close the Virgini ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 13, 2012

    Jimbo's Closing For Good? Noooooooo!!!

    ​Say it ain't so Jimbo! WPLG reports that Miami's favorite low rent sea-side hang-out is finally shutting down after surviving through several hurricanes, a fire, and the city's draconian bureaucracy. In 1954, shrimper Jimbo Luznar established his little beach head on Virginia Key, which became on ... More >>

  • News

    December 1, 2011

    Reader Mail: People Issue Props

    ​Say it ain't so Jimbo! WPLG reports that Miami's favorite low rent sea-side hang-out is finally shutting down after surviving through several hurricanes, a fire, and the city's draconian bureaucracy. In 1954, shrimper Jimbo Luznar established his little beach head on Virginia Key, which became on ... More >>

  • News

    November 24, 2011

    Miami People 2011

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  • News

    November 24, 2011

    Udonis Haslem: Standing Tall for the Kids

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  • News

    November 24, 2011

    Jimbo Luznar: King of the Island

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  • News

    September 29, 2011

    Cops raid Jimbo's over fishy business

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  • Blogs

    September 27, 2011

    Jimbo's Raided for Unlicensed (But Delicious) Fish

    ​Jimbo's -- the venerable Virginia Key hobo den, petting zoo, and bocce pit -- was recently named one of Esquire's best bars in America. It looks like a Mad Max gang hangout. In a figurative sense, the smoked fish sold there is like an enema. Some people swear by it. The more squeamish, however, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2010

    Party to Save Jimbo's Place This Sunday

    Claudia KatzJames "Jimbo" Luznar prepping his fish for the smoker.​Like Coral Castle and Tobacco Road, the ex-shrimper hideaway known as Jimbo's Place (Duck Lake Rd., Virginia Key) is one of those odd outcroppings of the subtropical landscape that provides an increasingly necessary contrast to Mia ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 1, 2010

    For Jimbo's Sake

    Claudia KatzJames "Jimbo" Luznar prepping his fish for the smoker.​Like Coral Castle and Tobacco Road, the ex-shrimper hideaway known as Jimbo's Place (Duck Lake Rd., Virginia Key) is one of those odd outcroppings of the subtropical landscape that provides an increasingly necessary contrast to Mia ... More >>

  • News

    November 2, 2006

    Aluminum Can Omen

    The movie about Jimbo’s place is hipper than thou, and Studio A suffers

  • News

    January 12, 2006

    Net Loss

    Jimbo's, a beloved chowder of old Florida and innocent days, is adrift

  • News

    March 23, 1995

    Treasured Isle

    This time next year an RV campground will occupy Virginia Key. Say sayonara to one of the city's last patches of green.

  • News

    February 19, 1992

    Shrimp

    This time next year an RV campground will occupy Virginia Key. Say sayonara to one of the city's last patches of green.

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