Jumbo Floating Restaurant (1st generation) [????-1971]

Submitted by David on Mon, 11/15/2021 - 12:11
Current condition
Demolished / No longer exists
Date closed / demolished
(Day & Month are approximate.)

I've set the 'demolition' date to 1971, when the restaurant was gutted by a fire, though the burned-out wreck appears in photos from 1973 so it was a while before it was removed.

A second generation Jumbo Floating Restaurant was built as a replacement, and opened in 1976.

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Photos that show this Place

JUMBO fire in progress
1971
JUMBO RESTAURANT
1972
JUMBO restaurant after the fire
1972
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Comments

SCMP from 2020 reports that the first generation Jumbo never was operative. "However, while the vessel was being furnished in October 1971, a fire broke out which killed 34 people and left 42 injured". The fire occurred on the 30 October, 1971. Possibly construction started in 1970.