Tiki Bummed - General Tiki

L LavaLounger Member The Great Plains of Kansas Joined: Dec 27, 2005 Posts: 81	L LavaLounger Posted posted on Thu, Feb 9, 2006 8:58 AM On 2006-02-09 08:00, Johnny Dollar wrote: On 2006-02-09 07:49, LavaLounger wrote:I got my first job and we loved going to the Mainlander for lunch in St. Louis and dinner at Trader Vic's at the Belaire East Hotel. lavalonger... you wouldn't happen to have any PHOTOS of the mainlander would you? i've been searching for them for years. my family is from st. louie and i asked my uncles who went to the mainlander, but no dice... http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=9485&forum=1 Ohhhhhhh boy, I wish I could help. But we were young and into drinking fast and never had a clue just how fragile the whole tiki business was back then. We went often with a group of EA's from Western Electric that were working across the street in the Hanley Bldg (I believe it was the Hanley Bldg - don't have "total recall" anymore). We didn't take the mugs and stuff very often because the guys walked to lunch and they didn't want to get busted holding tiki mugs for drinking at lunch. This was 1968-1969. Toward the end of 1969 they started moving the engineers to the new WE facility in Ballwin, MO, and that ended the tiki lunches. I know we had a lot of stuff from both TC and the Mainlander when we got married in 1970, but over the years we deemed it "junk" (ohh the sacrilige!) and it's all gone now. I could just CLOBBER myself! I'll ask around to our old friends as I see them and see if anyone saved any of that stuff or has photos. I remember falling over the doorway though...it was a few steps DOWN into the place and it was so dark it would take 10 min for your eyeballs to adjust. Boy, I'd give anything to go back and do one more lunch there. It's all like a dream now. LavaLounger-nostaglic

On 2006-02-09 08:00, Johnny Dollar wrote:

*On 2006-02-09 07:49, LavaLounger wrote:*I got my first job and we loved going to the Mainlander for lunch in St. Louis and dinner at Trader Vic's at the Belaire East Hotel.

lavalonger... you wouldn't happen to have any PHOTOS of the mainlander would you? i've been searching for them for years. my family is from st. louie and i asked my uncles who went to the mainlander, but no dice...

http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=9485&forum=1

Ohhhhhhh boy, I wish I could help. But we were young and into drinking fast and never had a clue just how fragile the whole tiki business was back then. We went often with a group of EA's from Western Electric that were working across the street in the Hanley Bldg (I believe it was the Hanley Bldg - don't have "total recall" anymore). We didn't take the mugs and stuff very often because the guys walked to lunch and they didn't want to get busted holding tiki mugs for drinking at lunch. This was 1968-1969. Toward the end of 1969 they started moving the engineers to the new WE facility in Ballwin, MO, and that ended the tiki lunches. I know we had a lot of stuff from both TC and the Mainlander when we got married in 1970, but over the years we deemed it "junk" (ohh the sacrilige!) and it's all gone now. I could just CLOBBER myself! I'll ask around to our old friends as I see them and see if anyone saved any of that stuff or has photos.

I remember falling over the doorway though...it was a few steps DOWN into the place and it was so dark it would take 10 min for your eyeballs to adjust. Boy, I'd give anything to go back and do one more lunch there. It's all like a dream now.

LavaLounger-nostaglic

Post #213626 by LavaLounger on Thu, Feb 9, 2006 8:58 AM