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The Beachcomber, Victoria, Canada (restaurant) |
Dustycajun
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Nov 16, 2007
Posts: 3946
From: Santa Barbara, CA
|  Posted: 2013-02-26 6:59 pm Permalink
Name:The Beachcomber
Type:restaurant
Street:711 Broughton Street
City:Victoria
State:
Zip:
country:Canada
Phone:
Status:defunct
Description:
This is one of those Holy Grail postcards. The first time I have ever seen photos of the Beachcomber restaurant that was located in Victoria, British Columbia.
It is an oversized card with three great photos of the restaurant interior and the exterior.
First, the exterior. That A-frame entry with the Tikis holding it up is super cool. There is even a PNG-style storyboard painting on the A-Frame entrance. And that waterfall in the window to the right - WOW. More Tikis on the wall to the left.
The bar area crammed with lots of visuals.
And the dining room, also full to the brim with all of the Poly Pop classics, from fish-trap lamps, fish net floats, Leeteg nudes and jade tiles. And those great Tiki table lamps.
Back of the card.
As many of you know, this was one of five Beachcomber restaurants located in Canada – as listed in these matchbooks I posted previously.
Very happy to get this beauty.
DC
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bigbrotiki
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Mar 25, 2002
Posts: 10600
From: Tiki Island, above the Silverlake
| Posted: 2013-02-26 7:27 pm Permalink
Wow, great blow-up of the front! The neon A-frame supported by those cool Tikis, and that Tiki diorama window - wonderful!
As for those interiors: One has to be reminded that nobody knew how to light and photograph Tiki temple interiors in the dim, atmospheric lighting that they were designed with. Inside, the customers never saw the rooms lit up into every corner like these postcard photos show them. Really kinda destroys the mystery, doesn't it.
Looks like they had "Luau" table lamps.
[ This Message was edited by: bigbrotiki 2013-02-26 19:33 ]
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MrsSmith
Member
Joined: Jun 07, 2013
Posts: 1 | Posted: 12 days ago; 10:51 am Permalink
HEY! My grandfather ran the defunct Beachcomber in Victoria for some years. Here are some images from the menus from the Edmonton restaurant. Pretty cool!!!
I even have two tiki statues (I'll have to take photos) and my mom had some of the original green chairs and tables from your pictures - they were in our basement for years.
[img]http://tikiroom.com/img/77804x51b21ce3.jpg[/img]
[img]http://tikiroom.com/img/77804x51b21c61.jpg[/img]
[img]http://tikiroom.com/img/77804x51b21cb2.jpg[/img]
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Captainwhoopass
Tiki Centralite
Joined: Jun 28, 2011
Posts: 21
From: Edmonton AB
| Posted: 12 days ago; 10:59 am Permalink
Great postcards.
Welcome MrsSmith. I would love to hear any stories you can recall about your grandfather's involvement in the tiki scene and his restaurant. Can't wait to see the photos of the tikis.
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Hakalugi
Site Administrator
Joined: Aug 10, 2004
Posts: 2816
From: Redondo Beach, CA
| Posted: 12 days ago; 1:23 pm Permalink
Here are the images from MrsSmith that for some reason are not showing up for everybody (anybody?).
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