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

1 1961surf Tiki Socialite Newport Beach, Ca . Joined: May 03, 2007 Posts: 2065	1 1961surf Posted posted on Wed, Sep 9, 2009 9:46 PM Here's my post on Hanford Lemoore's facebook profile.He posted this same article about the Tonga Room . http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/hanford?ref=nf The Tonga room is incredible.This is the same thing that happened to the sad closing of the Beverly Hilton Trader Vic's.That was the oldest still standing Trader Vics -built and opened in 1957...now gone.Corp. greed at it's finest .Damn it...scrap the frickn high rise luxury condos! San Francisco and Oakland had so many cool Tiki establishments...... Skipper Kent's, Zombie Village, Trader Vic's, Tiki Bobs- just to name a few....and they are all gone.What is wrong with the world today ?Why can't we leave something that's so cool and has some significance of tiki pop culture from the past... be cherished and enjoyed for many generations to come and not bull dozed ?

Here's my post on Hanford Lemoore's facebook profile.He posted this same article about the Tonga Room .

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/hanford?ref=nf

The Tonga room is incredible.This is the same thing that happened to the sad closing of the Beverly Hilton Trader Vic's.That was the oldest still standing Trader Vics -built and opened in 1957...now gone.Corp. greed at it's finest .Damn it...scrap the frickn high rise luxury condos! San Francisco and Oakland had so many cool Tiki establishments...... Skipper Kent's, Zombie Village, Trader Vic's, Tiki Bobs- just to name a few....and they are all gone.What is wrong with the world today ?Why can't we leave something that's so cool and has some significance of tiki pop culture from the past... be cherished and enjoyed for many generations to come and not bull dozed ?

Post #482490 by 1961surf on Wed, Sep 9, 2009 9:46 PM