Post #279114 by Hau 'oli Tiki on Mon, Jan 15, 2007 10:36 PM

I have neglected to read this whole thread as I thought it was done. I can't tell you how happy we are to read that Sam's will be restored and reopened!! We should have a big shin dig to re-christen her!

Since the close of Royal Hawaiian and all, well, we've been starving down here in south county. We were looking at pix of RH and Sam's the other day and the heartache I felt was physical. Specially The Royal. The air of the past clung to the walls with layers of memories. You could almost here the chats that took place there in the past; Sputnik, Kennedy, the Cuban missile crisis, oil embargos, free love, I'm starting to sound like a Billy Joel song... The swank seeped into that place and stayed. God I miss it.

So lets make Sam's just as great! Someday our grandkids will look at old pix of us in our retro swank, Hawaiian shirts, and funny hats and they'll wonder if that cool looking place is still open. Hopefully, when they walk in, the memories will reach out from the walls and embrace them. They'll feel our presence as they sit at the bar. Here our laughter and ice clinking in our glasses as they study the tikis. Realize that we lived, laughed and loved just like they do. And left a bit there, sandwiched between the dust layers on the lamps and walls.

Wow. Those old qualudes I found in an old purse seem to be just fine! I think they have no potency left. Sgood.