This live music venue was originally located on Pico Boulevard at the old Wan-Q building at 8751 W Pico Blvd. (circa 1994), but then re-located to this second and final location. It lasted here from 1995-1999 before closing for good.

The interior had a bamboo bar and a mural in back of Thurston Howell and his wife, Lovey, from Gilligan's Island.

The Jacks Sugar Shack locations (never an apostrophe in its name) featured an eclectic mix of blues artists and American roots music. It also hosted the long-running Ronnie Mackʼs Barn Dance.

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.

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.

Alfredo's Beach Club had 6 locations up and down the Belmont Shore.

This location, Alfredo's Beach Shack, opened @2010.

This was a snack bar -- no liquor license. It was part of an in-line skate shop. They rented themselves out and helped with private parties, sometimes luaus or other Hawaiian-themed events.

There were a couple of tikis on premises but this was by no means a full-time tiki establishment.

Closed @2019.

Alfredo’s Beach Shack was demolished in 2021.

Now home to Saltwater Deck as of 2022.

Opened in 1965. The name "Eli Kai" translates to "Peaceful Garden" in Hawaiian.

The complex sports a nice A-frame. There is an underground parking garage and the units start on the second floor. A unique rock wall fountain, long ago turned off, still evokes the time period, and there are a plethora of tikis, from the Marquesan tiki beam holding up the ceiling outside the manager's office to the more decorative beams all throughout the complex.

Built in 1963.

The structure looks to have stayed intact and it still appears to have its original fish-shaped sign.

From postcards, it appears that the lobby once had hanging globe lights and some Witco furnishings that did not survive remodeling, but much of this motel is still very much the same.

Built in 1950.

Interior design by Clif and Lou Sawyer who are shown standing together in an interior shot below.

This restaurant at the Villa Hotel closed in 1988.

The Lanai had a dramatic neon palm tree sign, and an almost identical one stood at The Leilani in Fresno until 2014.

The Villa Hotel has now been converted to apartments -- The Villa at San Mateo.

Originally, this location was named Lo Curto's Gardens in 1933.

It was renamed Lo Curto's Hawaiian Gardens in 1938 and remained so until 1966, so it spanned both the pre-Tiki and Golden Tiki Eras.

The last incarnation was Italian Gardens, a banquet hall specializing in weddings and Lockheed Christmas parties.

Today it is Italian Gardens Family and Italian Gardens Senior, two government housing projects.

This location stood adjacent to a Sambo's restaurant in 1975.

Around 2012, this site became the Presidio Parkway Inn.

Lilo Lounge was an early modern tiki bar in Potrero Hill that opened sometime before the end of 1996. It quickly became a hotspot during the first dot-com boom, and particularly attracted the early tiki scene in the San Francisco area. The dot-com bust took Lilo Lounge with it, and it closed in 2001. The space later became Lingba.

Trad'r Sam is the oldest, longest-operating tiki bar in the world. Trad'r Sam opened in 1937, and was originally owned by Sam Baylon. This small and very old bar started as pre-tiki, and is an extremely rare example of the bamboo bars that were in some cities in the '30s.

Back in the day there were huge bunches of bananas hanging from the ceiling and the bartenders were dressed in pith helmets and safari clothing.

Today, there are still tropical drinks available, but this bar is now more of a loveable dive than anything.

It had closed for a very short time and re-opened in November 2023 after a makeover that refreshed the floor, walls, and seating. Much of the rattan and the bamboo is still intact, but a series of seating areas around the perimeter of the bar which were named after islands, and framed in rattan, had fallen into disrepair and have been removed -- replaced with newer tables and rattan chairs.

The biggest feature, the bar itself -- a large, rattan encrusted horseshoe-shaped structure -- still remains. They have also added a few small inexpensive tikis throughout.

While in the area, cocktail enthusiasts shouldn't miss the world famous tequila destination bar across the street just a block and a half away, Tommy's Mexican Restaurant.

Open from 1951 to 1994.

Cosmo Place is actually an alley. The unusual location didn't stop the San Francisco Trader Vic's from becoming a powerful center for city nightlife. In fact, in 1983, Queen Elizabeth II had her very first experience eating out at a restaurant here. (She had a Tanqueray gin martini.) This Trader Vic's location closed in 1994, and the space then hosted a popular French Vietnamese restaurant, Le Colonial, for 26 years, before closing in 2024. As of 2025, the location is in development...