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Re: QE2's original Look-out bar, by Theo Crosby
« Reply #15 on: May 07, 2014, 08:01 AM »
Rosie:
After the Lookout Bar closed, it was primarily Club Lido on quarter deck that took over. The Double Down bar was fairly sedate(much like the Theatre bar). It didn't seem to me that the Yacht Club bar actually got going until the early to mid '90s. Club Lido was definitely the "hang-out" place during the seventies and eighties.
The bar tenders in the Lookout bar didn't seem to care as I looked older and sipped responsibility. Generally traveling with my grandparents in those years didn't allow me to get "wild and crazy", at least until they retired for the evening!
Yes, dinner jackets were required for dinner, as we were normally in the Grill. However, as soon as I excused myself, it was back to my cabin ASAP to dress down and head off on the hunt.
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Interesting to know. Thanks!  :)
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Re: QE2's original Look-out bar, by Theo Crosby
« Reply #16 on: May 07, 2014, 01:39 PM »
In the early years, the Lookout Bar was the place to go for late teens and college age people. The disco (where the Queens Grill was built) was mostly older people (30's to 40's) and very uncool to us! However, sometimes in the Lookout, it would get noisy and usually an officer would come in and tell us to tone it down. At a later dinner on the eastbound maiden voyage, the staff captain remarked that noise from the Lookout could be heard in the wardroom and on the bridge and that a recommendation would be that there be no bands playing in the Lookout in the future. I did notice, on transatlantics in 1970 and '71 that there was no loud music in the evenings any longer but in '69 that place rocked!

If the loud music were heard on the bridge and in the wardroom, it must have been rather loud in the captain's and chief officer's quarters.
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Re: QE2's original Look-out bar, by Theo Crosby
« Reply #17 on: May 07, 2014, 01:54 PM »
Yes it must have been June.
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Re: QE2's original Look-out bar, by Theo Crosby
« Reply #18 on: May 09, 2014, 02:39 AM »
Not to mention the Navigator Officer cabins directly behind the Wardroom. Must have been particularly bad for those on the 4-8 watch.
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Re: QE2's original Look-out bar, by Theo Crosby
« Reply #19 on: May 09, 2014, 05:30 PM »
Yes it must have been Graham.
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Re: QE2's original Look-out bar, by Theo Crosby
« Reply #20 on: May 09, 2014, 06:47 PM »
For sure !  J.
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Re: QE2's original Look-out bar, by Theo Crosby
« Reply #21 on: Jan 16, 2015, 12:01 PM »
anyone know why they didn't keep the original observation bar? something about needing a kitchen for the restuarants

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Re: QE2's original Look-out bar, by Theo Crosby
« Reply #22 on: Jan 16, 2015, 04:45 PM »
Alfredo, The answer to your question can be found here in the paragraph on the Columbia restaurant.

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Re: QE2's original Look-out bar, by Theo Crosby
« Reply #23 on: Jan 20, 2015, 07:12 AM »
wow the windows gave in sometimes? they were  not designed very  well then, I wonder if they had the same problem with the normandie's winter garden, makes me think of the michaelangelo's top deck giving in, funny QM2 has numerous room with front views

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Re: QE2's original Look-out bar, by Theo Crosby
« Reply #24 on: Jan 20, 2015, 09:50 PM »
wow the windows gave in sometimes? they were  not designed very  well then, I wonder if they had the same problem with the normandie's winter garden, makes me think of the michaelangelo's top deck giving in, funny QM2 has numerous room with front views

Alfredo, I think you've misunderstood something... I'm not aware of QE2's observation windows ever giving any problems in the brief time they were there, did we say that somewhere?  I have speculated about this on the forum before, because the extension at the front looks so substantial, but have never had anything confirmed.
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Re: QE2's original Look-out bar, by Theo Crosby
« Reply #25 on: Jan 20, 2015, 10:00 PM »
Yes, Rob, is correct.  Some of the forward windows on Queen Elizabeth (not QE2 nor the new Queen Elizabeth) were smashed in at one time during a violent storm.
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Re: QE2's original Look-out bar, by Theo Crosby
« Reply #26 on: Jan 20, 2015, 10:55 PM »
Alfredo, I think you've misunderstood something... I'm not aware of QE2's observation windows ever giving any problems in the brief time they were there, did we say that somewhere?  I have speculated about this on the forum before, because the extension at the front looks so substantial, but have never had anything confirmed.

Rod had mentioned in post 4 about the windows, maybe he could give us more information when he is next on the forum. 

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As I have posted on another thread here........ the Lookout bar was great......except in rough weather! Several brave/stupid people were injured that way.
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Re: QE2's original Look-out bar, by Theo Crosby
« Reply #27 on: Jan 21, 2015, 10:28 AM »
I believe that about 3 months before the LOB was removed,  window/s came in on a NA. I was not on board.
As I said in another post in another thread, I think this was due more to the flexing of the ship rather than the wave pressure.
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Re: QE2's original Look-out bar, by Theo Crosby
« Reply #28 on: Aug 20, 2017, 05:20 PM »
Have a look at "Reltco" 's photo here - https://www.flickr.com/photos/33120597@N03/3451255013/ - its from 1972 and shows, i think, patches already present in the corner of the windows.

Found this in another topic.

I'm assuming where those windows are that are now plated in, was the lookout bar? I also believe that in the nineties, during the Project Lifestyle refit, the golden lion was painted there?
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Re: QE2's original Look-out bar, by Theo Crosby
« Reply #29 on: Aug 20, 2017, 10:27 PM »
Can't resist posting this photo from 'British Marine Progress 1969' as I don't think I've seen it elsewhere.

It shows a stage area on the starboard side, with coloured downlights, and a scarlet piano to match the scarlet compass at the front of the room.

The furniture is black leather, with a moss green carpet.  The back wall is steel and bronzed aluminium and the walls are in cedar.

It must have been something to see.

For some reason I missed this post.  The piano shown has had quite the tour around QE2 since debuting in the LOB.  I'll dig thought my photos to see what I have but I know it at various points in QE2's 1st ten years the piano was in the Theater Bar, Double Down Room and I want to say in the Mid-ships Lobby as well.  I may start a new post to not drag this one off topic.