While gidgeting in San Diego(now a hooded surf bum in Pacifica), living at Windansea…..we used to frequent the hipster night at the Hanalei 5 dollar unreal all you can eat happy hour Polynesian Buffet in the original restaurant “wear a fez and get in free night”. All the ad agency, hairdressers, DC comics folk, Spike & Mike kids,vintage shop scalpers, 91X scatter, and other cool kids used to frequent this and it was unreal. The hotel looks nothing like it does now and the little fountain is just a compromised appetizer of what it was. The place was pretty big -(4 times the size it is now)and had a river like situation going through there with bridges, lots of fish tanks, Outriggers hanging from the ceiling, a giant seashell stage in the cocktail bar area of the restaurant with a dance floor, and my favorite was a life size carved statue of a native holding a spear in one hand and a shrunken head type thing in the other, the giant clamshell weeping wall fountains were all over, They used to play old school muzak with a lot of Elvis tunes. It was the Tahitian Terrace on steroids. They gutted it to be competitive for the superbowl. Lame-O that place was sooooo cool.