An anonymous OCThen reader asks if anyone remembers a tiki-style restaurant in Newport Beach during the 1960s...
Does anyone remember a restaurant on Pacific Coast highway in Newport Beach where Billy's is currently--called Kon Tiki? I recall going there on a date in the 1960's. I was there recently and recognized the Polynesian touches that are still there, but I am not sure I am remembering the name correctly.If you know anything, please "Post a Comment" and share with us...
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Okay, let's go back to the 60's
ReplyDeleteON Euclid Avenue in Anaheim, used to be this WONDERFUL restaurant.. you crossed a bridge and admired the huge koi to get to the door.. It was called SAMPAN. Before I left CA there was some Mexican restaurant there in its stead. I fell in love with shrimp in lobster sauce as a kid there.
I remember a Polynesian restaurant in Newport Beach, but don't remember the location or name. I do remember an Indonesian restaurant on the corner where the freeway hits highway 1 in Corona del Mar. Don't remember the name, but they served the traditional Indonesian banquet style dinner, Rijsttafel, and it inspired me to travel to Bali when I grew up.
ReplyDeleteI remember Christian's Hut on Balboa Bay. Somewhere in the back of my mind I recall a tropic themed place on PCH basically across the highway fom Merle's so that would have been in CdM - not Newport.
ReplyDeleteI really don't recall any Polynesian type places where Billy's is. All I remember are some old cafe's and boat supply places along there when the old, slow Catalina ferry used to dock there.
Just across the bridge and west of where the Dune's was there was a place called the Beach Boy.
Our favorite tiki place was Kono Hawaii on Harbor in Santa Ana.
Never hurts to Google. The place in Corona del Mar was called Trader Island
ReplyDeleteYES BEEN THERE A FEW TIMES MYSELF. GOOD FOOD THERE.I WORKED AT THE RESTRUANT ON CORNER OF COAST HWY AND NEWPORT BLVID.
ReplyDeleteTHINK IT WAS CALEDD THE ACTINIT MARINER WAS A COOK THERE FOR AWHILE.
THEN LATER 60'S THE VILLA NOVA ON PACIFC COAST HWY NEWPORT BEACH.
Don the Beachcomers! My friend Henry Wong was the Matre'd and that was early in the 60's. My pal John Dye worked at Christen's Hut as a dishwasher. How about the Ocean Toad - inside the Dunes...when I worked briefly and they had a shooting and a robbery..cause the owners were organized crime? How about JJ Mack playing at the Red Lion? How about the Whitehorse Inn across from the NB City Hall? How about Isadora's and the Road Home? How about The Magic Island" on the Lido Peninsula? How about the "Chef's Inn" on the Coroner of Marguarite and PCH? How about....
ReplyDeletea million more memories?
Berkshire's too! Lido.....I was there the night they closed that place. The great Chart House on the inland side of PCH in Newport Beach!
ReplyDeleteDon the Beachcomer was located at:
ReplyDelete3901 E. Coast Hwy, Corona del Mar
I love that place. My family would always stop by there when we were at my aunts house in San Juan Capistrano.
ReplyDeleteI am trying to find out if Dillman's.where I spent many of my wasted afternoons in the 50's and 60's in Balboa is still in existance.
ReplyDeleteSorry, Bill, but Dillman's was sold maybe 12-15 years ago. It's now the Shore House Cafe, and really quite pedestrian. Dillman's was a great place for fish, and do you remember Big Game Night? I miss the fish tanks, too.
ReplyDeleteAny one remember the Gaslight Broiler? One in Laguna and one in Newport Beach on PCH near the old Pontiac dealer?
ReplyDeletea couple other popular hang outs in newport beach were the beach ball and charlies chili!
ReplyDeleteWhat about the Dari Delite in Garden Grove.... that was a popular hang out too.
ReplyDeleteYou remember when Bob's Big Boy was on Balboa Island in the late 50's? How about the Flying Butler on the Penninsula or the Blue Dolphin? One I remember well is Howard's restaurant (I think its a Thai restaurant now) on PCH near Superior. As a kid it was a big deal to go there for dinner. Those were good days!!!
ReplyDeletedoes anyone remember a tiki restaurant on supulveda in Torrance
ReplyDeleteGaslight Broiler on Coast highway is now Pizzeria Mozza. Was owned by Persian Bob Manavi and his wife. Later known as to Shiraz. I worked there with many friends and relatives. Planted the ficus trees that were there until demolition.
ReplyDeleteKen Carpenter