It's a thatched-roof, open-air, low-cost, shorts-and-sandals throwback to a different era, perched high above the sand on the Newport's fishing pier (known to old-timers as the Sunny Isles pier).

He’s accused of killing Ronald Gaskey in Gaskey’s Newport Beach home on Dec. 13, 1983, police said. Getty Images/iStock photo A 70-year-old man faces a murder charge in a cold-case slaying ...