Post #744169 by dewey-surf on Wed, Jun 3, 2015 5:06 PM

On 2015-06-01 08:43, JonPez wrote:
Found a cool little tidbit. The 1985 movie "Summer Rental" with John Candy was filmed in Pinellas County, Florida. Although they didn't film anything at Tiki Gardens, they used Trader Frank and Jo's house as a location for a few scenes (mostly seawall and beach stuff, not interior or exterior of the house - would have loved to see that).
The prop people even put a Tiki Gardens brochure on the dash of the car when the family arrived in town.

What a great catch! Amazing eye on that one. I've been to Tiki Gardens once in my life in the early 1970's. I didn't move to Clearwater until 1990. Even though the Gardens is gone, we had a fun day out there when one of the tropical storms came through. We grabbed our surfboards, and called it the Tiki Gardens Classic. There were only 3 of us, but we figured it was a fun little tribute in our own way. The surfing was actually pretty good too, by Gulf Coast standards anyway.

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