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Longtime 'Lake of the Ozarks'
establishment burns
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Dummy, a longtime lake fixture on the Gravois Arm at Lake of
the Ozarks, burned to the ground last week-end.
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River
Rats visiting the "Dummy" restaurant on Lake of the
Ozarks in July 2002
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Located on the
Gravois Arm 6MM,
the Dummy had been in business for almost two decades.
Our River
Rat Crew recently returned from a weeks vacation in the Ozarks and
took this
picture at the Dummy just a week before the fire.
For more
pictures taken at the Dummy and other locations around the lake,
click on the link:
RIVER
RATS INVADE LAKE OF THE OZARKS 2002
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Editors Note:
The following article appeared in the Lake Sun Leader and was written by Marsha Paxson
A popular watering hole that has been serving boaters and landlubbers alike for nearly two decades at Lake of the Ozarks burned to the ground over the weekend.
Four people escaped injury at the Dummy at the six-mile marker on the Gravois Arm when flames broke out at around 2 a.m. Sunday morning.
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"I was asleep and the smoke and flames woke me up," Joe Flader said. Flader, a friend of Dummy owner Frank Steepleton is credited with waking everyone up and getting them out.
"All I knew was that fire was in the attic and it was coming down to the lower floors below where four of us were sleeping," he said Steepleton said those inside got out with little more than the clothes on their
backs.
"I was able to grab underwear, a pair of shorts and my slippers," Steepleton said. "I'm just glad no one was hurt."
Not long before the fire broke out, a big weekend crowd was bustling inside the bar below Steepleton's home.
Morgan County emergency dispatchers said the Moreau Fire Department was called out to the blaze, but nothing could be done to save the business, Steepleton's attached home or its contents. The cause of the blaze is under investigation.
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Steepleton said he has no clue how the fire started.
"I'd estimate my loss at about $500,000," Steepleton said. "The sad thing is that we just celebrated our 17th year on Friday. I opened for business the same weekend in 1985."
As Steepleton looked around at piles of melted dining tables and ash, he said he's not sure he wants to rebuild.
"I just can't say right now," Steepleton said Monday. "It's too soon."
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