At first, I heard that the Imperial Palace and The Palace in Biloxi both survived Hurricane Katrina without great damage. However after reading more reports and viewing the below picture, the Palace’s barge was almost completly destroyed. Looks like the IP (Imperial Palace) suffered the least amount of damage.
This is an older picture of the damage to the Hard Rock Casino in Biloxi, but still amazing to look at. Especially for those who knew this area, and can relate the mass amount of damage to the surrounding area.
It’s unclear what else from Biloxi casino is missing
By TOM WILEMON
Knight Ridder Tribune News
BILOXI, MISS. – Tabatha Murray, a waitress at the Waffle House in downtown Biloxi, walked a line to the restaurant after Hurricane Katrina passed to see if it survived.
The restaurant was gone, but she found what is thought to be a rock ‘n’ roll treasure in the debris — a vintage guitar that appears to have Johnny Cash’s autograph on it.
Seven weeks later, she is shipping the guitar to Hard Rock Cafe’s international headquarters in Orlando, Fla.
Don Bernstine, the manager of acquisitions for Hard Rock, said the company appreciated Murray’s gesture and asked that anyone else who may have memorabilia from the Hard Rock Biloxi Casino follow her example.
He would not say how much of the rock ‘n’ roll memorabilia from the casino is missing.
Katrina destroyed the casino’s gambling barge and heavily damaged its hotel. The memorabilia the casino had leased included a guitar and clothing from the “Man in Black”
“I have had so many people, just by word of mouth, people I trusted, wanting to rip me off to get this guitar,” Murray said. “I’m just happy to get it back to Hard Rock”
Source: Houston Chronicle
