Post #624354 by naugatiki on Thu, Feb 9, 2012 3:09 PM

On 2012-02-09 13:32, arriano wrote:
This has nothing to do with tiki, so bear with me: About 25 or so years ago my dad worked for a movie producer named Ted Field. Field bought the old Harold Lloyd mansion Green Acres in Beverly Hills. While it was being restored, my dad took me on a tour of the place. It was amazing in many ways, but one of the coolest things was when you went downstairs into the basement, you could walk down a corridor that eventually led to a secret bar/lounge. The house had been built during Prohibition, and the story was that when the lounge's fireplace was lit, the smoke from the chimney could be seen by neighbors Charlie Chaplin, DW Griffith, etc. and it was a signal to them that the bar was open.

They planned to make his Greenacers mansion a museum but sadly it never panned out, too bad it had 44 rooms and was basically unchanged since the 1920's, even in the 70's, kind of like Moby's ex-tiki space.