New Downtown Club “Voodru” Opens
FairCityNews.com | Feb 22, 2010 | Comments 0
Springfield, MO—The Ozarks newest nightclub, Voodru, opened this past weekend amid the Mardi Gras bar crawl. The club is located in the Woodruff building in downtown Springfield at St. Louis Street and Jefferson Avenue.
The Woodruff Building, originally opened February 1, 1911, has seen several businesses come and go including local lawyer offices and the Missouri Court of Appeals. However, nobody expected the opening of a club on the property including current owner Warren Davis properties.
“We recently rented the upper floor to a group and immediately notices shrines to Bondyè, and other Lwa deities that contained perfumes, foods, and other things, but didn’t really think twice about it. Once, on the elevator, we found a rooster with its neck slit amid a mess of candles, I guess that would have been a sign that something was amiss,” said a property representative.
According to sources, The Voodru club joined the Mardi Gras pub crawl last week, several months after the entry deadline. The pub crawl organizer, Harold Shiffer, was approached by a man who had severe physical decomposition such as rotting flesh, discolored eyes, open wounds, and moved with a slow, shambling gait.
“Yeah, so this zombie lookin fella asked to put their club into the crawl and well, I tried to explain that the deadline had passed and posters were already printed etc, but he continued to grunt and moan until I agreed to drop off bracelets to Voodru,” said Shiffer.
The first 100 Voodru Club goers were presented with collectable “Voodru dolls” as an opening night gift. Those who attended the club enjoyed dancing to a series of Catholic prayers and songs in French; most made it out alive.
Warren Davis representatives confirmed that they did not stipulate charges for a “purification ceremony” in the lease agreement but are looking for a way to sneak it back into the language of the contract.
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