How Chris South Converted a School Bus into a Premiere Birmingham Mobile Lounge

By Sym Posey | The Birmingham Times Welcome to The Lion’s Den, a Birmingham mobile lounge where the city’s nightlife can be experienced on wheels with signature cocktails in a fully stocked bar, exotic hookah flavors, cigars and a deejay. Chris South, owner of The Lion’s Den, a Birmingham mobile lounge, began the business in 2022. (Amarr Croskey, For The Birmingham Times) Chris South, who owns and began the business in 2022, said he’s always aspired to create his own lounge for people to visit and wanted it to be different. He saw an opportunity and after he placed a $500 bid on a school bus on eBay, South then learned that he won his bid. “I called my cousin, he’s a diesel mechanic. I told him I had won a bus and that we needed to go check it out. I sent the man that was selling it $500 and took off from work I went to Mobile (Alabama) and drove it back home.” South says when he first told people about his plan for the bus, “they couldn’t see it.” He told them to “trust the process.” After getting his bus to Birmingham, South said he put in...