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Tiki Central / Locating Tiki / Beachcomber, Darwin, NT, Australia (bar)

Post #624957 by Kane Tiki on Tue, Feb 14, 2012 12:27 AM

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Name:Beachcomber
Type:bar
Street:Located n the "Welcome Koala Inn", Smith Street
City:Darwin, NT
State:
Zip:
country:Australia
Phone:
Status:defunct

Description:
A forgotten Australian tiki bar, oddly, located in one of Australia's most remote towns. Opened in 1975, closed... who knows? Most likely only open for a few years at most. I have the matchbooks below (apologies for the bad scan). I've seen very little other evidence of it's existence except this job ad in google news archive that confirms a 1975 opening date:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=PPpjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YeYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6550,2185418&dq=beachcomber+darwin&hl=en

[ Edited by: Kane Tiki 2012-02-14 00:33 ]

[ Edited by: Kane Tiki 2012-06-07 15:17 ]

[ Edited by: Kane Tiki 2012-08-22 04:59 ]