Post #784247 by GiaGia on Thu, Feb 22, 2018 6:14 PM

Thanks Bam Bam for the videos. I stopped in yesterday. It’s currently the second Indian restaurant to occupy that location, and the new owners could not have been more gracious. They had no information about the early tiki bar. But they were interested to see these posts and learn about the history of the building. The space has been cleaned out and renovated many times over. The only vestige of the tiki lounge are the two “lava rock waterfall” features that flank the front door on the interior. The current owner tried to revive the waterfall but he said that it didn’t look quite right because the water pumps didnt function properly. Based on the historic photos in this forum, the current space has the same general interior form (three square posts that line the central part of the room by the former “stage”. Alas, my high hopes of finding a stash of dusty matchbooks, menus, photos or mugs from the former Beachcomber were dashed. But discussions with a long-time Harrisburg native confirmed that the Beachcomber was once a swinging and popular tiki lounge in its day!