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Greetings. I was living in Kuwait when Hard Rock opened. It was late ’04 or early ’05. Surely post war. I thought the building was new. If there was war damage to the building, then obviously the building predated the war but Hard Rock definitely did not. Again, I remember the grand opening and it was ’04 or ’05.
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