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sad to report that the balinese was destroyed. here is their home site with historic info and interior exterior photos.
A historic Galveston, Texas, nightclub that once attracted some of the world's top entertainers was washed away by the storm surge of Hurricane Ike. The 79-year-old Balinese Room was once a popular dance and gambling hall. It hosted performances by Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope, George Burns and the Marx Brothers in the 1940s and '50s. Howard Hughes was a patron. The structure along Galveston's sea wall had extended 600 feet out into the Gulf of Mexico. The building was added to the Natoinal Register of Historic Places in 1997. It had survived Hurricane Carla in 1961 and Hurricane Alicia in 1983, but Ike was too much for it as the storm's surge ripped the building apart early Saturday.
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Some 7,000 documented historic buildings are located on Galveston, an island that served as a gateway to Texas in the state's early days. Of those, it is estimated as many as 1,500 of the structures sustained serious damage during Hurricane Ike.
An early assessment by the Galveston Historical Foundation shows the following conditions at historic sites.
Employees at the Farnsworth House used boats to reach the home on Saturday and lift the designer furniture away from the water. Some pieces, including a custom-designed wardrobe bound to the floor, could not be saved. Officials could not yet estimate the cost of damages.