Post #806171 by tikiskip on Thu, Oct 27, 2022 7:35 AM

When I talked with Bill he told me that there were some vice cops there at the party and I said "well if you need somebody to burn your place down they are the guys to do it"

He was adamant that that was not what they did and I told him I was joking.

The joke was that way back when if you had a bar restaurant that was not doing well you would burn it down as you could not sell it so burning it down and collecting the insurance was what happened many times in that case.

Not saying that is what went on it was a joke and I never heard anybody else say they heard anything else.

In fact till I heard that from Bill nobody knew of Bills birthday story.

I think he said it was a small hotdog joint before the Grass skirt and they just enlarged that place to make the Grass skirt and then they just enlarged The Grass skirt to make the Kahiki as that way it was less costly or something that made better to enlarge a place than to just start a new one.

I think that The Top was done the same way.

Would be nice to find out how many years the Grass skirt was open and the name of the place that was there before them even.

Hopefully one of the Kahiki books will put that in a book, it would be kinda easy to find as all one would do is go and find the listing in a phone book for that address or maybe even the property's history would have something.

Just start at say 1961 and work your way back from there.

I was told that Lees relative (dad, grandfather?) invented the yellow pages and was really well off and that is how Lee had some ready cash on hand.