Dark Side, St. Louis MO - General Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Thu, Jan 7, 2016 6:38 PM This could have been a Polynesian-style hideaway with another name once, and when it failed it became the "Dark Side". If someone could cross-check the address with local Poly pop places…? Because even as Tiki was at its height, older, out-dated Pre-Tiki "bamboo huts" closed down, as told about in this 1961 movie "The Right Approach": Synopsis: Army buddies return home to Pasadena, California, and convert a restaurant known as The Hut into a five-man bachelor pad. One of them has a brother, Leo Mack, who will stop at nothing in his desire to succeed as an actor. Leo cons the guys out of clothes and money. He also conspires with a carhop, Ursula, who hopes to seduce one of the roommates. The young man happens to be from a wealthy family, so Ursula and Leo intend to split whatever they can get. A magazine writer, Anne Perry, is romanced by Leo and persuaded to do an article about The Hut, which is mainly about him. Leo gets an agent and Hollywood offers, and seems on top of the world until a scorned Anne exposes him publicly for the cad he is, as does Ursula, who is pregnant with his child. More info: http://lecinemadreams.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-right-approach-1961.html [ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2016-01-07 18:39 ]

This could have been a Polynesian-style hideaway with another name once, and when it failed it became the "Dark Side". If someone could cross-check the address with local Poly pop places…?

Because even as Tiki was at its height, older, out-dated Pre-Tiki "bamboo huts" closed down, as told about in this 1961 movie "The Right Approach":

Synopsis:
Army buddies return home to Pasadena, California, and convert a restaurant known as The Hut into a five-man bachelor pad.

One of them has a brother, Leo Mack, who will stop at nothing in his desire to succeed as an actor. Leo cons the guys out of clothes and money. He also conspires with a carhop, Ursula, who hopes to seduce one of the roommates. The young man happens to be from a wealthy family, so Ursula and Leo intend to split whatever they can get.

A magazine writer, Anne Perry, is romanced by Leo and persuaded to do an article about The Hut, which is mainly about him. Leo gets an agent and Hollywood offers, and seems on top of the world until a scorned Anne exposes him publicly for the cad he is, as does Ursula, who is pregnant with his child.

More info: http://lecinemadreams.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-right-approach-1961.html

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2016-01-07 18:39 ]

Post #756951 by bigbrotiki on Thu, Jan 7, 2016 6:38 PM