Luau Barbecue served a mix of barbecue and Hawaiian-inspired dishes, likely in the '50s/'60s.

Olmstead is now on this site as of 2021.

The Polynesia cost $500,000 when it was built in 1961. Architect Raymond H. Peck designed the space for owner Dave Cohn. The Polynesia was situated on Pier 51 in downtown Seattle, overlooking Puget Sound; it must have had absolutely breathtaking views.

It closed twenty years later in 1981, when the government condemned the pier... they wanted more space to expand the ferry terminal (it's now part of the Colman Dock complex). The building with three A-frame roofs (minus interior fixtures & furnishings, which had been removed) was put onto a barge and moved to temporary site on the Duwamish River. Owner Cohn sought a new site for some time, and sadly, never found a suitable one. He eventually gave up, and allowed the Seattle Fire Department to burn the building down for practice(!).

Some of the furnishings for the Polynesia included banquettes carved by Witco, large carved posts (these posts were salvaged, uncarved, from the building that had existed on the pier before the Polynesia) by local artists Donald Keys and Donald Ingalls, and a life-size tiki carved from monkey pod from Manila.

There was also a sister restaurant in Spokane.

This Trader Vic's was located in the Shamrock Hilton from 1965-1986, at the southwest corner of Main Street and Bellaire Boulevard (West Holcombe Boulevard after 1963).

The Shamrock was a hotel constructed between 1946 and 1949 by wildcatter Glenn McCarthy southwest of downtown Houston, Texas next to the Texas Medical Center. It was the largest hotel built in the United States during the 1940s. The grand opening of the Shamrock is still cited as one of the biggest social events ever held in Houston. Sold to Hilton Hotels in 1955 and operated for over three decades as the Shamrock Hilton, the facility endured financial struggles throughout its history. In 1985, Hilton Hotels donated the building to the Texas Medical Center and the structure was demolished on June 1, 1987.

Opened in 1971.

A short-lived nightclub in the Tulsa area. Mugs & other serveware were produced by Frankoma, which reused designs they had created a decade earlier for the Club Trade Winds restaurant.

Club Trade Winds was the restaurant in the Tulsa Trade Winds Motel at 51st and Peoria (1120 E. Skelly Drive), which later became Trade Winds West as other Trade Winds motels opened in the area.

At one time, Tulsa was home to three Trade Winds motor hotels. They were located at 51st Street and Peoria Avenue (1120 E. Skelly Drive), 51st and Harvard, and 3141 E. Skelly Drive (added in 1968 and still open as of 2021). There were also two in Oklahoma City and one in Muskogee.

This Club Trade Winds, at 1120 E. Skelly Drive, later became The Tiki Nook.

Frankoma was contracted in 1960 or 1961 to create mugs and serveware for Club Trade Winds. Some of the mugs tend to be oversized. Frankoma reused the designs a decade later (in a more normal size) for a short-lived Tulsa restaurant, The Cultured Pearl. All of these Frankoma tiki ceramics remain highly collectible.

The Indianola was a lovingly-restored, small 12-unit hotel in the Movie Colony district of Palm Springs. The property was originally opened as the Indianola Lodge in 1955, and had fallen into disrepair when it was purchased in September of 2001 by partners Michael Glenner and Steven Rockwell. Glenner and Rockwell turned the run-down hotel into a posh clothing-optional resort for gay men, with a retro, polynesian pop theme. It opened in 2003. Guests were greeted with a lei and a cocktail on arrival; there was a weekly cocktail party where guests were encouraged to wear costumes provided in their rooms, including sarongs and pith helmets.

The Indianola closed in 2008, and today as of 2021, it is home to the Avanti Hotel.

The Waikiki Room was in the Hotel Nicollet -- added there in the 1950s (at least as early as 1954).

The Waikiki Room moved its location to the Hotel Leamington across town in February 1976.

The Hotel Nicollet was built in 1924 and was demolished in 1991.

Opened in 1944.

Skipper Kent's had a sister restaurant, Zombie Village, across the bay in Oakland.

This location for Skipper Kent's is now Kennedy's, an Irish pub.

This Décarie Blvd. landmark, razed back in 1988, was a mecca for the city’s business, social, sports, political and wise-guy elite —­ as well as a magnet for tourists who wanted to hobnob with the latter. Anyone who was anyone congregated there. More than that, though, it happened to serve, in the minds of many, the best damned Cantonese cuisine this side of Canton. But what patrons remember most about the place isn’t necessarily the elaborate Cantonese main courses, or the roast beef served from that sparkling silver trolley, or even the drop-dead gorgeous cigarette girl sporting the sleekest Oriental-style dress years before such frocks were deemed acceptable in public places. No, it was the egg rolls and the garlic spareribs — ­ never really replicated. The resto’s Black Sheep Lounge also attracted a who’s who of performers, including Charles Aznavour. Although this restaurant is gone, there is a "Hotel Ruby Foo's" at 7655 Decarie two blocks down. There is no Polynesian restaurant in the hotel.

Opened on August 25th, 1957 and closed due to fire on February 16th, 1959. Refurbished and re-opened in 1960 to run for 4 more years before being sold in 1964.

It was festooned with tiki idols, torches and artifacts, lots of palms and other exotic flora to frame diners enjoying authentic Polynesian cuisine. They even had a miniature volcano and waterfall built in the tropical garden, which also featured an ornate bridge.

The unusual Polynesian Kava and Tiki bowls in their old menu have fueled many expeditions for these "crypto mugs", and it is thought they must have been available for only a brief time as they are not shown in the later menu version.

In 1964 the Polynesian briefly became Jamaica West (a youth-oriented dancing and nightclub spot) for a year or so, and was then purchased by Hop Louie who re-opened it as Latitude 20 in 1966. Latitude 20 ran through 1980 before being sold to developers who decided to stray from the Polynesian theme and go Country. It was a Waco's and then a Calamity's before the structure was finally leveled in 1984.

The site is now a strip mall.

Open at least as early as January 17th, 1965 as advertised in the Daily Oklahoman.

This restaurant was located in the Rio Motor Hotel.

There was another Outrigger Club about 100 miles away in Ardmore, OK.

This restaurant was located in the Hotel Windsor and opened on December 2nd, 1953.

It was one of the first to put a tiki image next to its name in their logo and advertising.

It also issued several mugs which are thought to be some of the earliest as well, close on the heels of the Tiki Bob mug and some of the early Trader Vic's pieces.

The Kalua Room closed @1968 or 1969.

There is now a large shopping & restaurant complex where the hotel once stood.