Hotel Taharaa, Papeete, Tahiti (hotel) - Locating Tiki

NN No No Tiki Centralite Jackson, Calif. Joined: Mar 25, 2013 Posts: 19	NN No No Posted posted on Sat, Aug 24, 2013 12:51 PM Well, where to begin? At the beginning is a good place I guess. Joseph M. Long was born in Covelo, Calif. A one room school house provided him with all the education he would get prior to heading off to U. C. Berkeley with his first pair of store bought shoes in tow. His mother was the teacher at this little school house and done him right proud. With a couple of degrees under his belt, he set about to build a retail empire with his brother, Tom. Over 450 stores in 7 states unfortunately culminated in the sale of the Longs Drug Store family run chain to CVS a few years back. Somewhere along the line, Joe developed a love affair with Polynesia and the fruition of that dream was: Societe Hoteliere De Tahara'a, more commonly referred to as Hotel Tahara'a. Got to go for now. I will post more later [ Edited by: no no 2013-08-25 15:06 ]

Well, where to begin? At the beginning is a good place I guess. Joseph M. Long was born in Covelo, Calif. A one room school house provided him with all the education he would get prior to heading off to U. C. Berkeley with his first pair of store bought shoes in tow. His mother was the teacher at this little school house and done him right proud. With a couple of degrees under his belt, he set about to build a retail empire with his brother, Tom. Over 450 stores in 7 states unfortunately culminated in the sale of the Longs Drug Store family run chain to CVS a few years back.
Somewhere along the line, Joe developed a love affair with Polynesia and the fruition of that dream was: Societe Hoteliere De Tahara'a, more commonly referred to as Hotel Tahara'a.
Got to go for now. I will post more later

[ Edited by: no no 2013-08-25 15:06 ]

Post #691248 by No No on Sat, Aug 24, 2013 12:51 PM