Post #619050 by tikicoma on Wed, Dec 28, 2011 10:34 PM

DC, what a remarkable and rare find!
I ate in this building in the late 60's and mid 70's both times under different monickers, and yes a great view of the river (a lit view of falls at night if I remember right). Though I don't remember any polynesian decor I did run across a blog a couple of months ago in which the blogger said that the carved beams are still evident in storerooms of the restaurant and that the carved beams in the dinning room are just encased in a wood surround. As to the artifacts, the Seattle Polynesia had sparse tiki decor, one interior tiki, postcards, a menu and a three face bucket mug (only two in ooga-mooga) marked seattle-spokane, so no surprise no artifacts. As a side note, the Islander in Tacoma and the Polynesia in Spokane were both replaced by Black Angus restaurants (great beef until the 80's when they sold to a Japanese company and stopped raising their own), new western seemed to mean rough-cut wood not cowboy-western (to bad I like cowboy).
So to sum it up, carved beams still there but hidden.

aloha, tikicoma