Post #715906 by congawa on Sun, May 4, 2014 9:18 PM

Thanks for noticing that, Boris...looks logical to me!

And I just found an earlier memo of my grandfather's vacation that shows I had the wrong date for the photos that were shot. He was on his own on 1/18/61. But earlier, on December 23, 1960, he typed the following:

He mentions that he and my mom (who was getting over a bought with the flu) went to Westward Ho Market (which was near the apartment, at San Vincente and Barrington), then "went to Basket Bazaar, took pictures in front of a Tiki shop. We also went to and broused [sic] through a second-hand book-store. After all this walk Doris felt much better. (Tikis are South-Sea-Island "totem poles" carved right in this shop on Barrington Avenue from huge redwood logs.)" Basket Bazaar was at 11675 Wilshire, on the northeast corner of Barrington. The Tiki Shop was probably somewhere just above that on Barrington, not on Wilshire like I initially thought.

Here's a 1960 LA Times ad for Basket Bazaar (sounds like possibly a Pier 1/Cost Plus kind of place), showing the Wilshire/Barrington address.

I wonder if there could have been any connection between the Tiki Shop and Basket Bazaar?

Caltiki Brent