Canadian Tiki Part Deux - Collecting Tiki

T TabooDan Tiki Socialite Coast of BC now in Crowsnest, AB., Canada Joined: Jul 18, 2004 Posts: 691	T TabooDan Posted posted on Tue, Aug 2, 2011 10:37 PM On 2010-01-04 17:12, Sabu The Coconut Boy wrote: Here's a view of the 100 block of East Pender Street in Vancouver's Chinatown. Photo was taken in 1974 and you can see a sign for the "South Seas Dining Lounge" Does anyone know if the place is still there? Hey Sabu, I tried quite hard to find something out about this place but nothing comes up at all. There is nothing listed for South Seas Dining Lounge that I could find. I searched from about 1969 to to 1979 and got nothing. I am wondering if that sign is just advertising what the place was and not the actual name of it? I don't have access yet to any cross reference catalogs which tell you what was listed at that specific address and who was on title during certain years. These catalogs are much harder to find at libraries and the like and alot just don't keep them on hand. The ones that do have them just don't have the old ones. So I guess the hunt will continue! Mahalo, TabooDan EDITED TO ADD THIS RAMBLIN' :wink:: I managed to look into a couple of the years around the photo and it's reported date of 1974 in the cross check reference books but still found nothing that was called South Seas Dining Lounge or anything that may have worked out. I basically went through the whole block for the years I could get but of course I did not have 1974's catalog! In the 1978 catalog, I did find a "Hawaii Barber Shop" that would have been near by but that was about it. These books are basically a reference catalog (a big phone book) that allows you to look up the address and it will tell you what the name of the person or business was at that location for that year. Also, if you just have a phone number, you can look up the phone number and it will tell you the name and address for that number so they can be quite helpful. Especially if you have an Ad or Match Book with no address and just the ph. number. The problem is many collections at libraries, archives, etc., are incomplete or don't go back far enough. I don't really have any other tools to dig with right now so I think this one is going back to sleep for a while. I still love that photo though showing every day life just passing by!! [ Edited by: TabooDan 2011-08-04 15:42 ]

On 2010-01-04 17:12, Sabu The Coconut Boy wrote:
Here's a view of the 100 block of East Pender Street in Vancouver's Chinatown. Photo was taken in 1974 and you can see a sign for the "South Seas Dining Lounge"

Does anyone know if the place is still there?

Hey Sabu, I tried quite hard to find something out about this place but nothing comes up at all. There is nothing listed for South Seas Dining Lounge that I could find. I searched from about 1969 to to 1979 and got nothing.

I am wondering if that sign is just advertising what the place was and not the actual name of it? I don't have access yet to any cross reference catalogs which tell you what was listed at that specific address and who was on title during certain years. These catalogs are much harder to find at libraries and the like and alot just don't keep them on hand. The ones that do have them just don't have the old ones. So I guess the hunt will continue!

Mahalo, TabooDan

EDITED TO ADD THIS RAMBLIN' :wink::
I managed to look into a couple of the years around the photo and it's reported date of 1974 in the cross check reference books but still found nothing that was called South Seas Dining Lounge or anything that may have worked out. I basically went through the whole block for the years I could get but of course I did not have 1974's catalog! In the 1978 catalog, I did find a "Hawaii Barber Shop" that would have been near by but that was about it.

These books are basically a reference catalog (a big phone book) that allows you to look up the address and it will tell you what the name of the person or business was at that location for that year. Also, if you just have a phone number, you can look up the phone number and it will tell you the name and address for that number so they can be quite helpful. Especially if you have an Ad or Match Book with no address and just the ph. number.

The problem is many collections at libraries, archives, etc., are incomplete or don't go back far enough.
I don't really have any other tools to dig with right now so I think this one is going back to sleep for a while. I still love that photo though showing every day life just passing by!!

[ Edited by: TabooDan 2011-08-04 15:42 ]

Post #600628 by TabooDan on Tue, Aug 2, 2011 10:37 PM