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.

From its 1945 opening to its 1984 closure, this Décarie Boulevard institution was where Montreal went to see and be seen.

Ruby Foo’s was once a 6,000-square-foot spectacle where politicians rubbed shoulders with Broadway stars, where Maurice Richard slipped in through the back door, and where Pierre Elliott Trudeau ate duck à l’orange almost every Sunday.

This location 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 restaurant'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.

The original restaurant structure was finally razed in 1988.

Ruby Foo's distinctive menu design (with a Chinese, Hawaiian, and Singapore girl on the front and colored rings expanding outward) was also used by Chen's Singapore (ran from as early as 1946 through as late as 1957). Chen's was located in New York City, above the Winter Garden Theatre, in the same spot later occupied by the Lanai and the Hawaii Kai.

Opened in 1944.

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

Open till at least June of 1964.

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

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.

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.

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 (operated during the 70s - 80s).

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. Years later, Wendy Cevola would secure the trademark/copyright to reproduce more Frankoma pieces, especially the War God. She did collaborations with Gecko and other artists, including with the Frankoma company itself.

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.

Built @1979-1980.

After the original The Tikis in Monterey Park closed, owner Danny Balsz attempted to reopen at this new location in Lake Elsinore with some of his old set pieces and tikis at the newly built-out location, but it never happened. It is now a paintball park, Jungle Island; all the landscaping and (now paint-splattered) rock formations remain, but the tikis are long gone.

The Dallas Trader Vic's opened in 1967 in what was then the north wing of the Dallas Hilton Inn. It closed in the spring of 1989, but was kept somewhat intact, with much of the original decor still in place. Over the next 20 years, the space was available for private rentals. In 2006, the hotel became the Hotel Palomar, and plans got underway to reopen the Trader Vic's. Trader Vic's finally reopened, looking every bit the classic Trader Vic's it was, in March 2007. Sadly, a burst pipe in January 2010 led to the restaurant closing.

The hotel site is now known, as of 2024 (and since 2014), as The Highland Dallas.

*Photos below show the original postcard hotel image from 1967 and colorized image of the front entrance of Trader Vic's at the time with a Barney West carving out front. Then, jump to the refurbished 2007 Trader Vic's and its menu.

Located at the Beach Rotana in Abu Dhabi.

When the restaurant originally opened in 1994, it was in the rear of the hotel complex. In April 2001, it moved to a roomier space at the front of the complex.

The Tokyo Trader Vic's opened in 1974, and is located within the Hotel New Otani in Chiyoda City (Chiyoda City is a special ward located in central Tokyo, Japan.). This location remains one of the finer examples of high end Trader Vic's design, with service to match. The Boathouse Bar still serves some drinks in rare Trader Vic's stemware.

Located in the Al Ain Rotana Hotel. Opened in 1999.