Post #530775 by Dustycajun on Mon, May 17, 2010 4:07 PM

I picked up a matchbook from the Mai Tai restaurant in Excelsior with nice renderings of the exterior.

The bar must was called the Rum Runner

Bonus find on the inside: Jane's phone number!

I researched this place on the web and Scott McGerik the author of this post has his own site with another matchbook that shows two photo scenes

One of the outside

and one of the inside.

I also found a story about a gentleman who used to take his boat to the Mai Tai.

The Mai Tai was a wonderful big restaurant, on the water, with very Polynesian/Hawaiian architecture and a South Pacific cuisine. We docked Sunshine and went in for a grand dinner. My very favorite dish was called the “Flaming Hawaiian Feast”. It was a wok dish with lobster, crab, shrimp, beef, pork, chicken, pineapple, celery, and other veggies and fruits that I don’t remember. They poured brandy over it and served it flaming. It was offered as a dinner for two but it was easily enough for three of us. They also offered the very best scorpion I ever drank, but you had to drink it when you got there so you would be sober enough to drive when you left.

DC