Post #229907 by Matterhorn1959 on Mon, May 1, 2006 9:00 PM

I purchased a grouping of vintage New Yorker Magazines for resale and as I was looking through them, I saw the following restaurant review:

Broadway's newest spot, the Beachcomber, has little in common with the others. It's located above the Winter Garden, and I understand, is supposed to be for people who like to sit back and relax. The proprietors have made it dark and gloomy and have tossed in a few palm fronds and bamboo Venetian blinds for tropical atmosphere. Numerous Hawaiians or Filipinos or some such stand ready to ply the hardy with strangely named and reputedly potent drinks-Missionary's Downfalls, Vicious Virgins, and Zombies are three I jotted down. The nicest aspect of the place, to my mind, is the excellent music of Matty Malneck, after many years in Hollywood, has finally brought his band East, and, because of the distinctiveness of his instrumentation and arrangements, he is a welcome visitor. By the way, there are innumerable Oriental dishes at the Beachcomber, but unless things have changed since I was there, you can't get a cup of coffee- not even a demitasse to offset the Zombie.

Sounds like Tiki restaurants and bars have always been looked down upon by the upper crust!

For those interested, the New Yorker magazine the review is in is the January 13, 1940 issue with a great hockey cover.

[ Edited by: Matterhorn1959 2006-05-01 21:01 ]