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Humu Kon Tiki » Blog Archive » Las Vegas Don the Beachcomber Menu — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 07:24:34 +0000

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By: wg

wg — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 06:47:18 +0000

hey guys, im doing this research project for english and well im related to the family who created Guggi. Could anyone help me out and tell me your opinions

By: Humuhumu

Humuhumu — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 18:41:49 +0000

Ah, the old ask nicely gambit…

By: Derrick Bostrom

Derrick Bostrom — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 12:50:00 +0000

Mine had the matchbooks as well. That collection, alas, has not survived!

The trick to procuring a menu collection back then was to simply ask for one. It was part and parcel of the whole unctuously polite gracious dining experience. “We’ve had an absolutely delightful experience this evening. Would it be possible to take one of your beautiful menus home with us as a souvenir of our memorable visit to your estabilshment?”

By: Humuhumu

Humuhumu — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 06:28:15 +0000

I’m looking forward to the knocking out! So, I’ve gotta ask… do you know how your grandparents managed to pinch so many menus? Did they work as a team — did Grandpa cause a distraction while Grandma stuffed it in her suspiciously-oversized purse? Did they slip a fiver to the maitre d’? Did grandpa stuff a menu up his shirt on the way to the washroom? I wish I could have seen them in action.

My grandmother had a 3 ft tall glass jar full of matchbooks; when I was a kid, I used to dump them all out and look at them and sort them, probably much like you used to gaze at your grandparents’ menus… what I wouldn’t give to have those matchbooks now!

By: Derrick Bostrom

Derrick Bostrom — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 16:53:13 +0000

For maximum collaborative power, perhaps you should install a TikiWiki (sorry; couldn’t resist).

You will be knocked out by this Don The Beachcomber menu from 1948 I have in my collection. All I need is the time and energy to scan it!

By: Humuhumu

Humuhumu — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 16:29:20 +0000

These are beautiful, thanks for sharing them. Vintage menus are such a rich source of graphical inspiration — I designed the look & feel of my blog after being quite taken with an old menu from Don the Beachcomber in Hollywood.

Thanks also for linking to my site, Critiki — I’ve recently added a feature that lets people like yourself add items from their collections to Critiki. If you’re interested in adding your own menus to Critiki, they would be a great addition!

The Islands in Phoenix

Don the Beachcomber at the Sahara in Vegas

I’m hoping that Critiki will become a useful historic record of what these places were like — we’ve already lost so many of them.

By: Staci

Staci — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 05:09:58 +0000

Wow. I lived at the Colony apartments on 68th & Camelback. My little bro and i would walk across the (then) empty lot to Fashion Square and have cherry cokes for 25 cents at Guggy’s! What memories, thanks Derrick.

p.s. Loved all the MP shows i saw, in LA and here.

By: Kristen

Kristen — Sun, 06 Aug 2006 21:01:42 +0000

I got on this site by a link from mymorningjacket.com. As soon as I saw your name I knew it was familiar. I grew up in Phoenix too (Scottsdale and Mesa) and I remember Guggy’s. I also believe that you lived in the guest house by the dogpark before me. In fact, I went to look at it and you were still there with crates of Meatpuppet recordings all over the place. I don’t remember the street but it was in old school Tempe (I don’t live there anymore so my memory fails me).If this is the wrong person, sorry but wow, this jogged some serious memory.
Thanks!

By: Steve H.

Steve H. — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 19:09:11 +0000

Man oh man! Crab Bengal at the Island all for under $3…and you probably also get the toast points with it. Thanks for another great menu read!