Quinn's Kanamit [This post is under construction.]

    Recently a Facebook post highlighting actor Richard Kiel's early film work in the sci-fi genre, prompted to recount my real-world "run-in" with him (unbeknownst to me) later in life. 

    I wrote: 

"Richard Kiel once sat, back to back, directly behind me to enjoy a birthday lunch with family. When he left the restaurant, I was the only one who did not know he had been there, all 7’2’’ of him!

I was also the only one who knew his name, with everyone else present clamoring 'Jaws' after the fact.

Nothing escapes me! Kanamits, Solarites notwithstanding!"

 

Richard Kiel as a Kanamit in The Twilight Zone episode 'To Serve Man' (1962)

         For true, for true, it actually happened one September 13th, Saturday early afternoon at Quinns Lighthouse Restaurant & Pub in Oakland, California! I was residing in Oakland at the time and had walked to the establishment to join my twin sister, Georgene, her then boyfriend John, to celebrate the birthday of Harro Kleem, the husband in 2003, of my eldest sister Yvette

 

Quinns Lighthouse Restaurant & Pub, Oakland, California Photo credit: Teena Tran

 

 

Richard Kiel, wife Diane, and Family (1982)

  

 

 

 Keep Watching the Skies by Bill Warren (1982)

The Phantom Planet (1961)

“There follows a funny scene in which the Solarite dabbles at the controls, which emit bleeps, causing the Solarite to turn to the camera blankly, not unlike the masked apes of Ernie Kovacs’ Nairobi Trio.”

 

QUINN’S LIGHTHOUSE RESTAURANT & PUB

Saturday, September 13, 2003 or 2008 (I think it's the former date, however).