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Club Samoa, New York, NY (restaurant) |
Dustycajun
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Joined: Nov 16, 2007
Posts: 3923
From: Santa Barbara, CA
|  Posted: 2010-06-23 12:08 pm Permalink
Name:Club Samoa
Type:restaurant
Street:62 West 52nd Street
City:New York
State:NY
Zip:
country:USA
Phone:
Status:defunct
Description:
Picked up a postcard from Henry Finks Club Samoa, a very cool looking pre-Tiki place located on 52nd Street in New York.
Nice tapa and bamboo at the bar
Also found a matchbook on the web.
 
DC
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bigbrotiki
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Joined: Mar 25, 2002
Posts: 10561
From: Tiki Island, above the Silverlake
| Posted: 2010-06-23 12:57 pm Permalink
There is an ad somewhere with Lilly St. Cyr performing there....must find it.
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Dustycajun
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Joined: Nov 16, 2007
Posts: 3923
From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2010-06-23 8:42 pm Permalink
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On 2010-06-23 12:57, bigbrotiki wrote:
There is an ad somewhere with Lilly St. Cyr performing there....must find it.
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I'd like to see that, did Lilly really perform form the 40's to the 70's?
DC
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Dustycajun
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Joined: Nov 16, 2007
Posts: 3923
From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2010-06-23 9:11 pm Permalink
Opps double
[ This Message was edited by: Dustycajun 2010-06-23 21:12 ]
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abstractiki
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Joined: Aug 29, 2009
Posts: 582
From: Lodi, CA
| Posted: 2010-06-23 9:41 pm Permalink
Nice, this place is classic pre tiki. We need to have a local NY urban archaeologist search for artifacts, or even just the building. The exact address is not showing in any listing. Any volunteers?
Here is another matchbook from the web with the same image. The picture is a little better.
This other image is also a matchbook I think. It says Club Samoa N.Y.C. in small letters at the bottom. I'm puzzled as to why there is no other picture or identifying info on this. Also no strike area for matches.
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lucas vigor
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Joined: May 12, 2004
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From: "I've chopped my way through real jungle
| Posted: 2012-11-15 10:05 am Permalink
you can surely see it in this picture of 52nd street, NYC, 1948
according to wiki, it later became a strip club. The whole area has changed, so I doubt there is any remnant. In fact, the street view of that address looks like a parking garage or maybe the bank.
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