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The Castaways, Miami Beach, Miami Beach, FL (restaurant) |
uncle trav
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Joined: Apr 27, 2005
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From: Kalamazoo
|  Posted: 2009-04-10 05:01 am Permalink
Name:The Castaways, Miami Beach
Type:restaurant
Street:16375 Collins Ave.
City:Miami Beach
State:FL
Zip:
country:USA
Phone:
Status:defunct
Description:
I picked this card up a while back. This is the earliest Castaways image I have seen. Dated 1956. This maybe the original incarnation before it became a major resort complex. Question is did the Castaways ever have any Tiki decor at all during it's run or was it the typical tropical style resort. The card image obviously predates classic poly-pop but is a great image. Thanks
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Tipsy McStagger
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From: HELL
| Posted: 2009-04-10 05:08 am Permalink
I believe castaways was always asian in theme..... i was actually there once with my family. The designers borrowed from poly pop which was bigat the time but i think they wanted to go in a new direction while still catering to the popular trend of the time.....those roof lines are very reminisent of tiki but asian was the theme throughout....
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uncle trav
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From: Kalamazoo
| Posted: 2009-04-10 05:19 am Permalink
Thanks for the info Tipsy. The Castaways is listed in both Critiki and TRT but not much out there about the place other than a mention on a couple of websites. One has some history and a few pictures from late in it's run. Thanks again.
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Humuhumu
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| Posted: 2009-04-10 08:03 am Permalink
The Castaways predominantly Japanese/Asian in theme (The Shinto Room was the main restaurant), but there was also a Tahitian Cocktail Lounge (sometimes called the Tahitian Bar) at The Castaways. Here's an old newspaper article that gives a pretty good description:
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Feb 8, 1961 in Google
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Dustycajun
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From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2009-04-10 08:35 am Permalink
Here is a postcard of the famous Stanley the Entertainer from the Tahitian Bar at the Castaways.
DC
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bigbrotiki
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Joined: Mar 25, 2002
Posts: 10557
From: Tiki Island, above the Silverlake
| Posted: 2009-04-10 10:22 am Permalink
Great info about him in the article! Where is Stanley Klim now? And where can I get some of those Mai Tai tumblers with his portrait on them? And all the names of those other Motels!: Thunderbird, Aztec, Surfside Six, Carib, Driftwood and The Dunes...where is my time machine!?
Besides the great night exterior on page 258 of Tiki Modern, this shot from "MiMo-Miami Modern" gives a great sense of the whole complex:
Trav, your postcard must show the original part of the place, across the street from this island part.
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uncle trav
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From: Kalamazoo
| Posted: 2009-04-10 10:57 am Permalink
Thanks for all of the input. I used to live down in Southern Florida. I wish I could have done some more digging around back then.
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tiki leki
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From: Point Loma
| Posted: 2009-04-11 05:58 am Permalink
I love the high dive diving board, you don't see those anymore in our lawsuit crazy world.
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christiki295
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Joined: Apr 09, 2003
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From: LA-2547 mls east Hawaii &5500 Easter Is
| Posted: 2009-04-11 3:46 pm Permalink
Nice.
What is in that location now?
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Humuhumu
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Joined: Aug 22, 2002
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From: San Francisco
| Posted: 2009-04-11 3:53 pm Permalink
Massive condominium towers.
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icebaer69
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Joined: Feb 03, 2007
Posts: 191 | Posted: 2009-04-11 11:59 pm Permalink
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On 2009-04-11 15:53, Humuhumu wrote:
Massive condominium towers.
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it´s unbelievable how many beautiful old hotels/motels were destroyed
in the miamibeach-area to make way for that condo-crap -
due to creditcrunch a lot of this stuff unsold/empty now ...
picture:
our last years rental car at the beautiful (former) sahara-hotel
(now apartments) -
background: fucking boring ugly condominium-crap creeping closer and eating everything 
... but there are still some amazing old places with beautiful neons around !
thank god that due to the recession nobody touches them at the moment ...
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uncle trav
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From: Kalamazoo
| Posted: 2009-05-28 5:19 pm Permalink
A couple of new cards.
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Dustycajun
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From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2009-05-30 1:57 pm Permalink
Trav,
I have about 20 cards from Castaways and have never seen one that shows a yellow roof on the Shinto Room. That is awesome.
DC
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bigbrotiki
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Joined: Mar 25, 2002
Posts: 10557
From: Tiki Island, above the Silverlake
| Posted: 2009-05-30 6:21 pm Permalink
I agree. That is the best shot of that building I have seen so far. I want to use that for one of my future books, please! 
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Tiki-Kate
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From: Yucaipa, CA
| Posted: 2009-05-31 4:39 pm Permalink
I picked this up recently. Nice dusky view of the place.
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