Post #500994 by tikiyaki on Sun, Dec 27, 2009 11:14 AM

Interesting thread...Sabu.

I know La Mariana in Honolulu has a piano player, and I'm pretty sure it always has....piano players in restaurants was a very popular thing in those days. My guess is that in alot of these places between sets of music, there was just NO music....maybe to give diners a break to chat. Even more so if there was a combo playing, and it was even more of a "show" as opposed to background music.

It certainly is a good question.

That capeheart device is crazy.

Last year when Tikiyaki PLayed a private show at the Beachcomber for the opening of Malibu pier, I was speaking to an older woman who told me that she used to go to the LUAU all the time in Beverly Hills, because it was one of the few places that had dancing...so,yea, dancing was indeed a big part of the equation.

Can't imagine what dancing would have been like after those cocktails tho'. :o