Post #805530 by mike and marie on Sun, Sep 11, 2022 6:37 PM

Some of the best threads on TC are the urban archaeology and internet sleuthing, especially when they lead to real-life finds, like the guy who went up to Oxnard and met I believe a cook from the old Trade Winds ... we always liked the tv finds too like hunting for tiki on Fantasy Island ... dustycajun was the master at pulling great lost photos and clippings of forgotten tiki places, like of Kelbo's and stuff in Tarzana ... but there's so much gold like this in the TC archives, like JOHN-O's search for Frank Bowers and all the fun at the Marina del Rey's Don the Beachcomber ... the threads that forward ideas on old places and people are ones we like too, like the thoughts on Don Blanding and Banana Republic.

But now we need some sleuthing help here ... we remember an interesting thread about the edge of Santa Monica and finding stuff there along Chautauqua and W Channel, like traces of nautical and proto-tiki at the SHOREbar, and even posting screenshots of the Bogart film In A Lonely Place which had a scene there ... and we can't find it. There's tons of stuff buried deep in these archives ...