Post #215866 by mbonga on Sun, Feb 19, 2006 5:07 PM

On 2006-02-19 16:08, TikiJosh wrote:
Now, everyone thinks California is always nice year round, but it can get cold during December, well cold enough that you wouldn't walk around with no shirt.
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The main reason I think this is Hawaii, this guy's at a bar or liquor store. You can see the booze bottles in the background. They look like the odd shaped bottles for Tequila, but that doesn't necessarily imply Mexico. You can get Tequila in any bar, right. So, anyway, if this is a bar, and it's open air, it's gotta be Hawaii. These types of structures in the so cal beach scene would be things like surf rental shacks or something, not bars.

Good reasoning. A theme park like Tiki Gardens isn't likely to have tourists walking around inside without shirts, and wouldn't be openly stocked with booze since those are family places. And California is definitely too cold in December, and I haven't seen any open bars like that near any California beach, either. All of which suggests the guy just walked in from a tropical beach in December to visit an open bar.

Why couldn't it be an open bar in Mexico, though, rather than Hawaii? I think more of the evidence mentioned suggests Mexico: beer, dark wood, light bulb eyes, etc.

One discouraging thought: the photo could have been taken in the summer and the film not turned in for prints until December. Or maybe the guy's girlfriend developed the photos first, and didn't get around to making him reprints of their trip later. What we need is a volunteer from Interpol or something to run an ID on this guy for us. :)