The Polynesian Inn Restaurant was in a big box of a building, with five peaked roof structures forming a zig-zag across the top, with the middle one being higher than the others. There was a large, bold sign at the street with "Polynesian Inn" supported by two crossed spear-like structures. It also had a "Tahitian Room."

The owners were C.L. "Vern" Hostetler (Vern passed on November 26th, 1990 -- aged 55) and Dolores "Dee" Hostetler (Dolores passed on July 5, 2014 -- aged 79). In addition to the Polynesian Inn, they also owned and operated the Dutchman Florist in Albuquerque and Rio Rancho.

The Polynesian Inn looks to have been operated during the late '50s or '60s (at least as early as 1966 according to one news article advertising a private party and one postmarked postcard) but it's possible this location was very short-lived.

It's highly unlikely that there is any connection to the Polynesian Cocktail Lounge, which opened in 1990.

There is a Denny's (that looks to date from the '60s or '70s) and a small park in the area where this restaurant used to sit.

Built in 1979.

Hawai Waipahu Paradise is a small bar on the outskirts of Madrid. The front facade features beautiful, intricate tile work in the shape of Papua New Guinea masks. There is an outdoor patio in the back. Drinks are served in the gorgeous tiki mugs that are common to all tiki bars in Spain. The decor in the space is simple, but the bar back has some nice, elaborate carved details.

KonTiki is a restaurant and bar located in the Old Town section of Nrnberg, in old fishermen's houses along the Pegnitz river. It originally opened in 1978; a fire in January 2002 forced the KonTiki to close, after replacing some of the damaged furnishings with new replacements it reopened in the summer of 2002. KonTiki features a restaurant (Polynesien World), and two bars (Sea Bar and Tiki Bar). The space is elaborately decorated, with beachcomber lighting, rock walls, bamboo and plenty of carved details.

The Beachcomber was a Canadian chain of elaborate Polynesian restaurants in the same vein as other popular chains like Kon-Tiki, Don the Beachcomber and Trader Vic's. Aside from this Vancouver location, there were also locations in Calgary, Edmonton, Victoria and Winnipeg.

This location opened in 1960, and was briefly closed in December 1961 after a fire. The restaurant was also called The Hawaiian Village during part of its time of operation. It eventually closed in 1981.

This space has been occupied since 1984 with the newly constructed Grosvenor Building at 1040 West Georgia St.

California native and self-taught cook Tsutomu “Jack” Kaya moved to Omaha after war’s end, and in 1947 opened his first restaurant, the Grass Shack Cafe. In 1965, Jack and wife Alice opened the Mt Fuji Inn, Omaha's first Japanese restaurant; the cuisine on offer spanning from Japanese to Cantonese to American.

After the loss of the restaurant by fire in 1969, the Mt Fuji Inn re-opened in a new, larger location that afforded the addition of a dedicated cocktail bar on the lower level. While the main restaurant was a pretty standard affair, the Mai Tai Lounge was a dimly lit drinkery decorated with port holes, black velvet paintings, fish tanks, bamboo over the bar and Orchids of Hawaii beachcomber lamps. There were a few other tiki touches including tiki door pulls and a tall tiki pole at the entrance.

The Mai Tai Lounge boasted a menu of “25 Original Polynesian Cocktails,” including their own spin on classics such as the Zombie, Fogcutter and its namesake Mai Tai, served in customized Mt. Fuji Inn Moai tiki mugs. Throughout the 1970s, occasional live music by such acts as “Big Al” Kaulia and The Kanakas played the “sounds of the islands.”

A family business to the end, the Mt Fuji Inn and Mai Tai Lounge closed in October 2017.

Luau is a Chinese restaurant in the Zona Rosa section of Mexico City. The building has a large Chinese pagoda facade, and the interior is decorated in an Asian style, with dragons and porcelain pieces. There don't appear to be any specifically Polynesian elements in the decor, but there are "tiki adjacent" elements present like their green ceramic Chinese tiles (utilized by Trader Vic's and other tiki locations) and a nice indoor koi pond made with what looks like lava rock. But in keeping with the seemingly incongruous Polynesian name, tropical drinks are served, and tikis have appeared in advertisements.

From their website:

"In 1957, Mr. Fong, an immigrant of Chinese origin, decided to rent a small space of just a few meters, in a house located on Calle de Niza in the Zona Rosa of Mexico City, to sell Chinese-Cantonese food using the original recipes of the family and naming the restaurant Luaú a word of Hawaiian origin that means "Banquet".

The delicious flavors of said foreign food soon caught the attention of Mexicans and the Chinese themselves, so the restaurant had to expand little by little until it became the restaurant it is today, with more than 1000 square meters, 2 lounges and a capacity for 200 diners, and with more than 100 dishes on the menu."

Bali-Hai Hotel is just a short distance from the beach in the heart of Acapulco. There is a restaurant and bar on-site. There are several tikis at the entrance, and there appears to be a thatch-covered building with swooping A-frame ends near the pool.

Opened in 1982. This bar north of downtown Lisbon serves tropical drinks and has Polynesian art on the walls. There was another Bora Bora on Rua da Madalena in Lisbon. Next door you can see the A-frame remains of the entrance to the now-closed Tangaroa Hawaiian Bar.

Tiki Tonga was a cocktail bar and nightclub in the Kreuzberg quarter of Berlin. It may not have had any connection to Polynesian Pop beyond a misleading name.

Closed @ 2020.

Deluxe was a retail store catering to the rockabilly crowd, selling clothes, tiki mugs, art, books and some carved tikis.

The High Commission of Papua New Guinea is PNG's embassy to Australia, and is located near Australia's Parliament House in the Yarralumla section of Canberra. The main building is in the style of a PNG longhouse, with painted artwork adorning the A-frame ends of the building. There are several carved pieces on-site, and there is an Exhibition Centre.

This was the seventh restaurant in the Kon-Tiki chain, owned by Stephen Crane. It opened on August 23, 1965. It was located in the Sheraton-Gibson Hotel, on the edge of Fountain Square in downtown Cincinnati.

Closed February 1974.

The Sheraton-Gibson Hotel was demolished in 1977.