Don the Beachcomber - The Locations (Updated 01-09-20) - Collecting Tiki

T TIKIBOSKO Tiki Socialite Joined: Oct 17, 2004 Posts: 336	T TIKIBOSKO Posted posted on Wed, Oct 27, 2010 9:50 AM Hey Sabu great job as usual, the whole Barefoot bar then Don’s then back to Barefoot bar is nuts, I’ve never seen interior photos from any of the eras of the Barefoot Bar so it would be hard to say what they did or didn’t do. It looked similar to the exterior photo you posted up (although much more lush) until a few years ago when they really denuded the place and made it contemporary style. Before that phase back 10-15 years the interior was all black and creepy there was a palmwood (?) Tiki around back and the war club door handle out front; I think the door handle was still there last time I went by. As far as a “Poor Mans Polynesia” I think they used the term very loosely, everyplace on Mission Bay was technically “Polynesian”. Although very cool Vacation Village had very little Polynesia that I have seen, it is a jumble of all kinds of styles that I presume were incorporated or added as the place grew over the years, Spanish, early California, that insane sculpture tower, the post and wave awning motif, I have a 60’s post card that had a barn yard petting zoo attraction where you fed ducks, it’s all very eclectic. I covered some of this in my San Diego talk at Oasis and it looks like I’ll be doing another one this year. Bosko [ Edited by: TIKIBOSKO 2010-10-27 09:54 ]

Hey Sabu great job as usual, the whole Barefoot bar then Don’s then back to Barefoot bar is nuts, I’ve never seen interior photos from any of the eras of the Barefoot Bar so it would be hard to say what they did or didn’t do. It looked similar to the exterior photo you posted up (although much more lush) until a few years ago when they really denuded the place and made it contemporary style. Before that phase back 10-15 years the interior was all black and creepy there was a palmwood (?) Tiki around back and the war club door handle out front; I think the door handle was still there last time I went by.
As far as a “Poor Mans Polynesia” I think they used the term very loosely, everyplace on Mission Bay was technically “Polynesian”. Although very cool Vacation Village had very little Polynesia that I have seen, it is a jumble of all kinds of styles that I presume were incorporated or added as the place grew over the years, Spanish, early California, that insane sculpture tower, the post and wave awning motif, I have a 60’s post card that had a barn yard petting zoo attraction where you fed ducks, it’s all very eclectic. I covered some of this in my San Diego talk at Oasis and it looks like I’ll be doing another one this year.

Bosko

[ Edited by: TIKIBOSKO 2010-10-27 09:54 ]

Post #561858 by TIKIBOSKO on Wed, Oct 27, 2010 9:50 AM