Post #424649 by bigbrotiki on Thu, Dec 18, 2008 10:06 AM

Cough..cough...sniff...weeell, youngens, over the many years that I have been on this board (and they are many!) --Cough!--there have been NUMEROUS posts about the Polynesian restaurant scene in "The Apartment", and many discussions about it being a set or not, with many photos posted. It is sort of THE Tiki newbie discovery of Tiki in a Film. As a matter of fact, "Tikis in Films" should have something in there --Cough!--and other threads too, though regrettably the transient nature of the virtual world might have resulted in the loss of some images. I myself have spent sleepless nights over the "set vs real place" conundrum, but basically the fact that 98% of all Hollywood movies during that period were not filmed on location but on sound stages (they basically didn't know how to light and shoot in original interior locations back then) leads me to believe that some art director who was very fond of Trader Vic's built this interior as a very authentic set. Zzzzzzzz...