Post #353357 by Mai Tai on Sun, Jan 6, 2008 4:35 PM

On 2007-05-08 20:37, RevBambooBen wrote:

On 2007-05-08 14:13, bigbrotiki wrote:

On 2007-05-04 20:04, RevBambooBen wrote:
My Mom worked at the "Sea" for a while...No tiki spirit there. Pure slave drivers!

Well, THAT was, historically speaking, and all romance aside, actually more the NAUTICAL spirit! :)

Here's a fine matchbook I found from a cool looking place in Oakland. One can only assume that it was nautical inside, being named after one of the finest (partially South Sea) writers and skippers there ever was:

Is that Yoshis Now?

Saw the Sax player for the Stones play there.

Danny,

Post working photos???

I got's a nautical coming up next week but will be out of town so pics will have to wait.

Great Stuff Peoples!

That place is still there, and nope, it's not Yoshi's. It's now Scott's Seafood. (Yoshi's is across the street). My dad also remembers The Bow and Bell restaurant - he's not sure if it was the same building as this one or different. Evidently Joe Dimaggio was partner in one of these. I've been pumping my dad for East Bay tiki info, since he's pretty much an East Bay native - did a lot of running around on San Pablo avenue back in the day.

He remembers Trader Vic's, but doesn't remember much of the other stuff around there, tiki-wise. But he definitely remembers one of his favorite haunts on San Pablo, the It Club, which is right next to where the Cerrito Speakeasy movie theater is.