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Tiki Central / Locating Tiki / Orchid 7 - [A Rather Sordid Story, With New OA Input], Washington, DC (restaurant)

Post #576918 by Johnny Dollar on Sun, Feb 20, 2011 3:21 AM

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act ii:
some success in the face of TIKI DEVOLUTION:

1978

THE WASHINGTON SCENE: ... The birthday reception of Dr. Charles Clark began at his Crestwood home where 54 guests boarded a double decker bus and journeyed past the White House Kennedy Center, Watergate and Key Bridge to Orchid 7 Restaurant for cocktails and canapes...

http://books.google.com/books?id=dL8DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA40&lpg=PA40&dq=%22orchid+7%22+washington&source=bl&ots=kGuLQef3WJ&sig=2mhGPCReMhSQ8bb2Uexo-tByZCU&hl=en&ei=9TZfTb2PCIO78gbzl9S1DA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAzgK#v=onepage&q=%22orchid%207%22%20washington&f=false

1979
The Washington Restaurant: A Socio-Economic Comestion Strategy by Anne Crutcher, The Washington Star, 1979.

"The Chinese-Polynesian mix, well achieved at moderate prices."

http://www.jstor.org/pss/419082