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Bar Made Entirely of Ice Opens

Bar Made Entirely of Ice Opens - Saturday, January 23, 2010 at 5:45PM EST

Reported by: Eyewitness News
Saturday, Jan 23, 2010 @ 05:45pm EST
MOUNTAINTOP, LUZERNE COUNTY - A Luzerne County restaurant has a slick new feature -- a walk-in ice bar.

Damenti's in Mountaintop said it's the only one of its kind in the continental United States. It took 11 days and more than 50 tons of ice to build the structure.

The ice bar includes an arched ceiling, ice carvings from world-class sculptors, a playable xylophone and even an ice cannon.

Owner Kevin McDonald said, "We're also gonna make another ice cannon, so the sun dial will point at the fuse so at 1 o'clock, 2 o'clock, three o'clock... the cannon will go off."

The ice bar is based on a pirate theme -- "Dead Men Sculpt No Ice".