Subj : Re: 2o fOr beeRS' 50,000t
To   : POINDEXTER FORTRAN
From : Dumas Walker
Date : Fri Nov 07 2025 11:31 am

>  DW> LOL I remember when daytime gameshows used to have prizes like that.
>  DW> 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.

Were you ever tempted to visit their tiki bar to see if the contestants
were there?  ;)

> 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.

Sounds like a pretty elaborate setup they had going there.  Sure you had
great fun there.


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