Post #417772 by Tom Slick on Fri, Nov 7, 2008 9:05 AM

Here is what I promised. It came out ugly when I scanned it, due to the pixelation of the article, so I took a photo.

In case you cant read the picture:
March 12,1969
Putting on the finishing touches isn't always easy. It took a helicopter to fly in a 40 foot sign to the top of the new restaurant at Redondo Horseshoe Pier. The Polynesian is opposite Castagnola's Restaurant.

And the final snipit from April 9th, 1969:
REDONDO FESTIVAL PLANNED
Merchants of the Redondo Fishermans Wharf will hold a 3-day festival April 11 through 13 to celebrate the opening of the Polynesian Restaurant on the municiple pier.
The celebration will feature an 8 piece mariachi band, the distribution of 6,000 helium filled balloons by Miss Bikini, Miss Surfer, Miss Hot Rod, and Bozo the Clown. The Restaurant will offer typical South Sea Cuisine and a variety of Hawaiian Cocktails.

Now my questions and curiousities are:

1. Why did it take just over 6 years to complete, when it was supposed to open in 1963?
2. Up until what year was the Polynesian open and running?
3. Was it the pier fire, or the fierce storms of the 80's that destroyed the Polynesian?
4. Where the hell did Bozo the Clown fit in all this!? :lol:

This is all of the research I could dig up and find. I'd like to know if they had OMC mugs as well as the above screened glass, which I have been looking for to add to the collection....Stuff from this place is extremely rare due to the Restaurant being engulfed in flames and finally falling off into the ocean. I wonder if anything like the barware was recovered?

[ Edited by: Tom Slick 2008-11-07 11:08 ]