Post #309703 by PremEx on Wed, May 30, 2007 1:35 AM

I was fortunate to be able to visit some of the classic West Coast tiki places in their heydays...places like Trader Vic's Beverly Hills, and Don The Beachcomber's Hollywood, and Bali Hai and many others. I have my dad to thank for the very early days. He loved places like that, and my brother and I often got to tag along. I didn't really appreciate them for what they were back then. And even later visiting as a young adult, I was mainly interested in the quick effects that those "fruity tropical drinks" had on my dates. :wink:

Of all of them (that I really know about to date) that I never visited and wished I had...is Don The Beachcomber's at the International Marketplace in Waikiki. I did get to visit Vic's place upstairs there in later years...but never that Don's in it's heyday. I think that would have been great!