Post #777839 by mike and marie on Fri, Jul 14, 2017 4:14 PM

Windward Passage is an American gem

How tikiskip just described it is exactly how it is every time we go there

It's just like all these old nautical places in this thread, but it still exists. We love it so much!

CosmoReverb, yeah, Captain Jack's!

Oh, another thing about Harpoon Harry's. There were a lot of rooms in there, different themes. So in the back the fine dining area with C-shaped black leather booths and white tablecloths and the Rat Pack playing and the lighting was down to 2 from just the candlelights, and up front past the big fishtank is the nautical bar area with the long laquered or varnished wood bartop and the whole room looked like the inside of a ship ... but there was tiki in there, and that's really the main reason why we wondered how come no one in the LA tiki or retro scene ever seemed to care about the place. When you left the bar to go down the hall to the restrooms there was an alcove room, very small, just big enough for a couple of two-tops ... and there were a few old time phone booths recessed in the wall ... but this room was all done in old tapa cloth, and there was big bamboo trim and some stuff about Hawaii in there, but again this stuff was old, like it was all stained dark amber as if it had hung in a cigar shop for 80 years ... like the old stuff in the Hawaiian Room. We took a few shots and regrettably not enough, and we weren't there when the new owners took over and probably threw it all in the dumpster.