Post #303279 by Swanky on Tue, May 1, 2007 12:57 PM

Don't call Trader Vic's HQ. Trader Vic's is a franchise. The owner of a franchise can do whatever they want. Close it or not. Thay can't renovate it into a non-TV place, but the corporate office of TV is not to blame here and has nothing to do with it.

It sucks, but, it's business. We on TC are not going to keep any place open by writing letters. Dollars keep a place open. We can help spread the word and encourage more people to seek these places out, but we can't keep them open. We can only encourage others to have a better appreciation for the past and the icons of the past and to see them in a new and intersting light.

If America would stop thinking that Tuscany or Athens was the ideal and we should build our places to look like theirs, we might get somewhere. But when every new shopping center has a vaguely Meditereanian vibe going on, getting people to be excited about mid-century moderm or primitive is just not happening. Maybe Mahiki will start a wave in the UK that will spread to the US...