Other nostalgia interests besides tiki and exotica - Beyond Tiki

UT Urban Tiki Member The Tropical Isle of Manhattan Joined: Aug 18, 2004 Posts: 529	UT Urban Tiki Posted posted on Tue, Aug 9, 2005 6:16 AM SOme really cool responses and I have to admot a certain degree of interest in all of them. I would love to travel back in time (for just a little while) to Manhattan in the 30s or 40s. It was so elegant then with the supper clubs with floor shows and places like the Stork Club and Copacabana. Men wore tuxes and women wore gowns. Automats, diners, and trains are also very cool. I particularly love the old art deco streamliner trains. Come to think of it, I love anything art deco. Being in Mnahattan, I love to visit some of the great buildings here that reflect art deco. Besides the great Empire State Building, there's the Chrysler Building, The GE Building and Rockefeller Center. There are still alot of places in NYC where it feels like your stepping back into that era. One of my favorites is the Monkey Bar in the Hotel Elysee. The bar still has these cool scenes with monkeys drinking cocktails in that very 30s style of illustration. The dining room is decorated like the 30s and has pictures of the celebrities that used to hang out there. Many movie stars lived in the Hotel Elysee including Marilyn Monroe and Joe Damagio, Tellulah Bankhead, and others. It is said that in the bar is where Tennessee Williams discovered Marlon Brando to star in Streetcar Named Desire. Johntiki, a little Empire State Building trivia question for you: Inthe lobby they have discplays of the seven wonders of the ancient world. Can you name them?

SOme really cool responses and I have to admot a certain degree of interest in all of them. I would love to travel back in time (for just a little while) to Manhattan in the 30s or 40s. It was so elegant then with the supper clubs with floor shows and places like the Stork Club and Copacabana. Men wore tuxes and women wore gowns.

Automats, diners, and trains are also very cool. I particularly love the old art deco streamliner trains. Come to think of it, I love anything art deco. Being in Mnahattan, I love to visit some of the great buildings here that reflect art deco. Besides the great Empire State Building, there's the Chrysler Building, The GE Building and Rockefeller Center. There are still alot of places in NYC where it feels like your stepping back into that era. One of my favorites is the Monkey Bar in the Hotel Elysee. The bar still has these cool scenes with monkeys drinking cocktails in that very 30s style of illustration. The dining room is decorated like the 30s and has pictures of the celebrities that used to hang out there. Many movie stars lived in the Hotel Elysee including Marilyn Monroe and Joe Damagio, Tellulah Bankhead, and others. It is said that in the bar is where Tennessee Williams discovered Marlon Brando to star in Streetcar Named Desire.

Johntiki, a little Empire State Building trivia question for you: Inthe lobby they have discplays of the seven wonders of the ancient world. Can you name them?

Post #178241 by Urban Tiki on Tue, Aug 9, 2005 6:16 AM