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MCGLENN FAMILY COLLECTION
The Rev. Michael Beerhalter is flanked by Oakley and Marie Lueg and surrounded by many
other St. Anastasia students on the stage of the auditorium at the Orange Avenue school during
his 25th jubilee celebration in 1951.
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Bartender’s recipe and price cards from the Moon Islander restaurant found their way onto a tiki restaurant blog. The drinks were much cheaper back then
and were served in fanciful containers (right).
his restaurant because there was nothing
like it in the Titusville area.
DAUGHTER’S MEMORY
In November 1964, the family suffered
a tragedy. Daughter Ida, who
had recently married and moved to
the New York area with her husband
to help manage the family’s small
distribution center in New York
City, was hit by the side mirror of
a pick-up truck while walking on a
road near the family’s New Jersey
farm and killed. The family presented
the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Beerhalter with an
ornate carved table and chairs and
a large framed portrait of Ida Lueg
Song for a special meeting room at
the newly-built John Carroll High
School.
Around that time, Moon Lueg had
decided to move the restaurant business
to Titusville, purchasing land on
the east side of U.S. 1 and also two
parcels, one 50 acres and the other 25
acres, in Brevard County for farming.
Once Moon Islander, a Polynesianstyle
restaurant and lounge, was
ready to open, he closed the doors at
the Moon Garden.
Moon Lueg, who died in 1984,
operated Moon Islander for many
years prior to his death. In the article
that appeared in Florida Today, ten
years before his death, Moon, 66, was
working five acres of the land he had
purchased in Brevard County in the
mid-60s. Noting that “it is hard to
find good labor for the 50 acres,” he
worked five acres himself to provide >>
ZOMBIE $3.25
1 oz. lemon juice
1 oz. orange juice
1 oz. pineapple juice
.5 oz. Creme de banana
.5 oz. apricot brandy
1 oz. dark rum
1 oz. 151
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