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Tiki Central / Locating Tiki / Trad'r Sam, San Francisco, CA (bar)

Post #483180 by atomictonytiki on Sun, Sep 13, 2009 10:40 AM

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Trad'r Sams was listed in the Guardians top San Francisco dive bars...

San Francisco's famed Tonga Room features indoor rain showers in its tiki-themed splendour. The dive bar equivalent is Trad'r Sam (6150 Geary Boulevard, +415 221 0773) - no one knows what happened to the "e" - which features enough bamboo to choke a panda and, as an impressive touch, a pinball machine themed around Johnny Mnemonic - a terrible pre-Matrix Keanu Reeves film that hardly deserves to be eulogised in an arcade game).

The Guardian, Saturday 12 September 2009

Full article here - San Francisco's best dive bars
A real American drinking den should be dark, slightly seedy and full of local characters. Nowhere does the dive bar better than San Francisco.