Lanai Island, Waltham, MA (restaurant) - Locating Tiki

H HopeChest Member East Bay, CA Joined: Oct 19, 2015 Posts: 508	H HopeChest Posted posted on Mon, Jun 25, 2018 10:33 AM ...and a bit of local colour: Right off the highway exit for Totten Pond Road there used be a shopping center that housed The Waltham Cinema and one of our city’s only Chinese restaurants, Lanai Island. There was also a liquor store in that complex. It is long gone now and has been supplanted with newer fancy buildings but what used to be is the stuff of memory. Where now sits a 16-plex fancy movie house with all the bells and whistles was once a modest two-movie cinema where people from Waltham enjoyed coming attractions, popcorn, beers in the seats (smuggled in of course), and feature presentations. The movie theater, the liquor store, and Lanai Island functioned as an equilateral triangle of fun and good times for kids from Waltham in the 80s and years prior. https://walthamboy.wordpress.com/

...and a bit of local colour:

*Right off the highway exit for Totten Pond Road there used be a shopping center that housed The Waltham Cinema and one of our city’s only Chinese restaurants, Lanai Island. There was also a liquor store in that complex. It is long gone now and has been supplanted with newer fancy buildings but what used to be is the stuff of memory.

Where now sits a 16-plex fancy movie house with all the bells and whistles was once a modest two-movie cinema where people from Waltham enjoyed coming attractions, popcorn, beers in the seats (smuggled in of course), and feature presentations. The movie theater, the liquor store, and Lanai Island functioned as an equilateral triangle of fun and good times for kids from Waltham in the 80s and years prior.*

https://walthamboy.wordpress.com/

Post #788003 by HopeChest on Mon, Jun 25, 2018 10:33 AM