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Tiki Central / Locating Tiki / Pieces of Eight, Marina Del Rey, (restaurant)

Post #594126 by LikaNui on Fri, Jun 17, 2011 9:09 PM

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Great to see all of this -- mahalo!
I've been there countless times over the years. My family had one of the very first boats there when Marina del Rey was built in 1963 (I was 12) and I've been in PO8 all while it was open and also after it changed to Shanghai Red's. I've even played music in there over the years, until I moved to Hawaii in the early 1990s.
Back in the beginning there was just a dirt road leading down to PO8 and no other buildings around it. They used to always have a guy in a pirate costume out on the main street waving people in, with a large bird on his shoulder, of course. Anyone find photos of that?

[ Edited by: LikaNui 2011-06-17 21:12 ]