TIKI TOWN: The restaurateurs saving South Bay staples and tiki culture

TIKI TOWN: The restaurateurs saving South Bay staples and tiki culture

by Laura Garber  Brian Eldridge and Patrick Mescall are on a mission that is partly cultural, oddly archeological, and wholly audacious. They are collecting and reviving South Bay restaurant classics that otherwise would have fossilized as only a nostalgic memory. “They’re like our dinosaurs,” Eldridge said, “that we just keep alive, keep going, keep growing.”  Eldridge and Mescall met in 2007 at Salt Creek Grill in El Segundo. The East Coast-bo…