Visitors to bangordaillynews.com reminisce about the Bounty

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Al, Derry, N.H.

“Remember when all the wrestlers – including Andre the Giant – showed up after a wrestling show at the Bangor Auditorium and held up a girl on each arm! I liked the one on the right arm!”

Robert, Plymouth

“The Bounty was the place to go in the Eighties!”

Tracey Grant, Augusta

(John Bapst Memorial High School, Class of 1983)

“Wow the Bounty is closed! I remember it from high school in the early ’80s. On the weekends, it would open in the afternoon for the underage crowd. The lights, the music, the dark smoky atmosphere -we were SO cool hangin’ at the Bounty.”

Cathy, Glenmoore, Pa.

“Didn’t go there often … Mostly heard stories from those who did, but the couple times I went – dance, dance, dance.”

Wendy, Jamison, Pa.

“We would leave Mike’s Place in Brewer and get to the Bounty before last call. It stayed open until 3AM and we would dance our butts off. Sunday was oldies night and we would go watch the guy with the nonfunctioning guitar jam up and down the speakers. I cannot recall his name. Yet more of my youth gone!”

Anne, Sebago

“Wendy – the man on the speakers, his name or the name he went by, was Kenny Rogers. What a blast from the past. Kind of sad to know it is gone.

Robin O’Connor,

South Portland and Brewer

“I remember the Bounty quite well. My mom, Barbara, was a bartender back in the ’70s (before she moved to Pete & Larry’s) as I was a young girl then. I sat there and had sodas and watched them spin the wheel for free drinks. When I became of age, I was there quite frequently. I do miss it because it’s a part of my past. Thank you for the memories.”

Gerald McLellan, Leesville,

Fort Polk, lowa

“It was Bangor’s nightspot when I frequented it during the early seventies. A lot of fond memories and casual fun!”

Joanne, Millinocket

“The Bounty was always hopping. My friends and I went every weekend and we had so much fun. Remember Mike, the manager, and Seth at the door. There was always something happening there. Too bad it has to close because back in those days it was the place to go.”

Kathy Peterson,

Lindsborg, Kan.

“I was 20 when the Bounty opened and it was THE place to go. Had a lot of good times there. Sorry to hear it is closing.”

Perley J. Thibodeau,

New York, formerly Bangor

“I ran into two of my local ‘Catholic priests’ there one night. They were regular patrons!”

Scott, Bangor

“My memories were in the 90s drinking $1 wide-mouth Bud bottles and checking out the girls dancing on the speakers. WTOS night was a lot of fun. Wish I could remember most of it.”