Post #27073 by tikivixen on Mon, Mar 17, 2003 10:44 PM

It irks me too.

The plates look very plain..no custom design. The letters on the lamp DO look a lot like "comber"...or conker or at least the last three letters also look like "mer". The writing on the wall looks like "tunungtu," whatever that means--sounds more African/Middle Eastern than Polynesian? And I think those round things are actually not three-dimensional, but part of a mural or collage or poster on the wall...

I found on a website a list of restaurants Beth Short frequented in the months before her death. Most all of them are in and around Hollywood, so maybe that'll help narrow things down, at least, if this was a place she was supposed to have gone. I don't understand the connection though as she is not the woman in the picture...

Florentine Gardens (Zanzibar Room) - 5955 Hollywood Blvd.
Roseland Roof (Dance) - 833 So. Spring St.
Pla-mor Ballroom (Dance) - 937 W. 9th Street
Hollywood Canteen (USO Club) - 1451 Cahuenga Blvd.
Boogie Woogie Club - 1304 S. Western Ave.
Ross Five Four Ball Room - 5409 So. Broadway
Acorn Room - 5309 Melrose Ave.
Playboy - 5347 Melrose Ave.
Vagabond Isle - 6202 Santa Monica Blvd.
Pick Up Cafe - 6023 Sunset Blvd.
Streets of Paris - 6729 Hollywood Blvd.
Mayflower Coffee Shop - 6349 Hollywood Blvd.
Pig ‘N Whistle - 6301 Hollywood Blvd.
Lime House Chinese Drink/Dance - 708 New High St.
Club 49’er - 460 So. Main St.
Melody Lane - 6303 Hollywood Blvd.
Susie Q Dance/Drink - 6700 Hollywood Blvd.
Stardust Cafe - 6445 Hollywood Blvd.
Tom Brenenman's Hollywood Night Club & Breakfast Café - 1522 N. Vine
Jack O’Brien Cafe - 1645 N. Wilcox
Oblaths Cafe - 723 N. Bronson
Snow White Waffle Shop - 6769 Hollywood Blvd.
Spanish Kitchen - 7373 Beverly Blvd.
Rhapsody Club - 504 So. Main St.
Bimini Bowling Bowl 16 Alleys - 122 1/2 SO. Vermont Ave.
5-30 Grill - 1640 Vine St.
Steve Boardner's Bar - 1652 Cherokee Ave.
Waldorf Cellar - 521 Main Street
Toto's Restaurant - Hope St. @ 7th St.
Dugout (now Toro) - 506 Main St.
Majestic Malt Shop - 555 Main St.
Old Oriental Hotel (A1ameda & Commercial) (reportedly posed for nude photos here - not confirmed - and meeting and dining with Chinese gentlemen)
Italian Kitchen - Commercial & Los Angeles Streets
Newsreel Theater - Broadway & 8th St.
Gaslights (& Under the Gas Lights) - 732 N. Highland Ave.
Zenda Ballroom Cafe - 936 W. 7th St.
Pucci Café - 3132 Sunset Blvd.
Radio Artists Agency - 6630 Hollywood Blvd.
Harout’s Har-omar - 1605 N. Ivar
Green Dragon Cafe - Ord St.

Boardner's, and, I hear, the Snow White Waffle Shop are still open. Also, the Pig 'n Whistle reopened a year or two ago.

From the above list, that Bimini Bowl, Harout's Har-omar, the Chinese places, the Zenda, the Zanzibar Room and the Vagabond Isle all sound rather exotic, at least...

Hmmm.