Tonga Room SF (Not) to be demolished? - General Tiki

C christiki295 Member LA-2547 mls east Hawaii &5500 Easter Is Joined: Apr 09, 2003 Posts: 3837	C christiki295 Posted posted on Tue, Apr 7, 2009 6:29 PM On 2009-04-07 11:58, scispy wrote: Didn't see this article posted. From last friday. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/05/fashion/05tonga.html?pagewanted=2&em Nice find, Scispy. TC Members reading the New York Times - literary elites - very highbrow! I like this quote: "hotel officials quickly cautioned that no construction was planned until at least 2012." I am also glad they are giving lip service to recreating the Tonga Room experience elsewhere, but I doubt it will be anything more than using the name.

On 2009-04-07 11:58, scispy wrote:
Didn't see this article posted. From last friday.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/05/fashion/05tonga.html?pagewanted=2&em

Nice find, Scispy. TC Members reading the New York Times - literary elites - very highbrow!

I like this quote: "hotel officials quickly cautioned that no construction was planned until at least 2012."

I am also glad they are giving lip service to recreating the Tonga Room experience elsewhere, but I doubt it will be anything more than using the name.

Post #445527 by christiki295 on Tue, Apr 7, 2009 6:29 PM