1935 Ballyhoo Magazine South Seas Edition (image heavy) - General Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Mon, Apr 9, 2007 4:01 PM On 2007-04-09 14:33, Humuhumu wrote: ....do you know if there were any others, and if they were as off-base as this? No noooo, the others were MUCH MORE tasteful: ...although the wait staff apparently did not always don the obligatory native garb: The above are both Beachcomber Bars, in Skegness and in lovely Minehead (?), and I believe that since they were modeled after the Mayfair London Beachcomber, the South Seas name was an exception....maybe they thought that totem poles would not fly as beach-combed flotsam, but would pass as some kind of unknown South Seas idols?

On 2007-04-09 14:33, Humuhumu wrote:
....do you know if there were any others, and if they were as off-base as this?

No noooo, the others were MUCH MORE tasteful:

...although the wait staff apparently did not always don the obligatory native garb:

The above are both Beachcomber Bars, in Skegness and in lovely Minehead (?), and I believe that since they were modeled after the Mayfair London Beachcomber, the South Seas name was an exception....maybe they thought that totem poles would not fly as beach-combed flotsam, but would pass as some kind of unknown South Seas idols?

Post #297919 by bigbrotiki on Mon, Apr 9, 2007 4:01 PM