Dumas Walker wrote to MORTAR M. <=-
LOL I remember when daytime gameshows used to have prizes like that.
As a kid in the 1970s/early-80s, I thought that was impressive. :D
I remember watching an episode of The Dating Game, and the "lucky
couple" won a romantic weekend getaway to SAN FRANCISCO!
They showed stock post csard photos of cable cars, the golden gate
bridge, the entrance to Chinatown, and the view from Twin Peaks, and
then told them they'd be staying at the luxurious Villa Hotel.
The only problem was that the Villa Hotel was in San Mateo, a sleepy,
run-down suburb about 20 miles south of The City.
The Villa did have an awesome tiki bar back then... would have been
better if they'd sprung for the Fairmont Hotel with the Tonga Room. It's
right off the California St. cable car line in the middle of downtown
SF, was later the setting for the TV show "Hotel" in the 1980s, and has
a killer tiki bar called the Tonga Room". There's a lake with an island
in the middle, the tiki lounge band would row a fake outrigger canoe to
the island and play. Once every hour or so it rained, complete with fake thunder and lightning.
When I was just starting out, appetizers were free during happy hour.
we'd ride the cable car up California from work, go and nurse a
Singapore Sling, a hurricane, or a Mai Tai and eat a dinner of fried
apps.
https://www.fairmont-san-francisco.com/dine/tonga-room-hurricane-bar/
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