Name:Two Harbors / Twin Harbors / the Isthmus
Type:other
Street:
City:Catalina island
State:CA
Zip:
country:USA
Phone:310 510 0303
Status:operational
Description:
Although having a military presence since the Civil War, Two Harbors really became a town thanks to Hollywood films such as "Mutiny on the Bounty" and "Old Ironsides". It's a one horse town, consisting of 2 restaurants, a bar, (Harbor Reef Restaurant and Saloon and the West End Galley - which are all connected) a marketplace (Two Harbors General Store), some rental places, camping areas outside of town, a few houses, a couple of roaming bison and some neat history.
On a side note to our pirate lovers, Two Harbors is the final resting place for the famed Chinese pirate ship Ningpo that spent 159 years engaged in acts of piracey along the chinese coast. Read more about this cool ship:
http://www.visitcatalinaisland.com/twoHarbors/poin_ningPo.php (actual photo is not of the Ningpo - maybe the Llewellyn J. Morse re-worked to resemble the USS Constitution in "Old Ironsides"?)
http://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/58october/ningpo.htm
http://www.cawreckdivers.org/Wrecks/Ningpo.htm (great history and pictures on this site)
You can also don your favorite pirate costume and head out for Buccaneer Days. In October.
The tiki stuff:
The Harbor Reef Restaurant/Saloon contains tikis, Hawaiian style pen and ink drawings, bamboo trimmed lampac/potog ceiling (redone in 2000 by the master BambooBen), pictures of celebrities, film stills and a great collage of two harbors over the years (located at the entrance to the West End Galley, which is attached to the restaurant). The collage also shows what the restaurant used to look like. Very hawaiiana-ish.
More information:
An article written by Bambooben in Tiki News issue #17 entitled "The Life and Times of Bamboo Ben: Job #396: Two Harbors, Catalina, CA (aka the Isthmus)
There's a little information about two harbors being the original starting point for Christians Hut in the BOT on page 133 (see picture below, as well)
Tiki Central threads:
HMS Bounty
More information about Two Harbors and how to get there:
http://www.visitcatalinaisland.com/twoHarbors/
[ Edited by: Polynesiac 2008-05-02 14:39 ]
