The Hawaiian was located at 4645 E.Pacific Coast Highway and opened for business on Thursday, July 28, 1955.

It replaced the Golden Drumstick restaurant and operated throughout the 1960s.

The Hawaiian was owned/operated by Don May who also owned Leilani Hut on 2nd Street where Legends is now located.

The Hawaiian closed on June 27th, 1969.

In 1970, the building was repurposed as a Datsun dealership.

Today, a Pep Boys now stands at this location.

Gene's Hawaiian Village was a very early Hawaiian-themed establishment, which opened no later than 1945. The building had a large neon sign across its flat front, and the entrance was flanked by two large, blocky tiki guardians.

At some point, the building was demolished, and today a hotel is on the site.

This was a spinoff location from the original Christian's Hut in Newport Beach. Open from 1940s to 1953.

Later this location became the Doll House and Kona Hut.

This was a spinoff location from the original Christian's Hut in Newport Beach.

It was located at the Jamaica Inn, built by Joe Collins and Bob Ingraham at the corner of Avocado Avenue and Coast Highway.

Today the site of the former Jamaica Inn is a medical office complex.

Opened on or slightly before October 5th, 1961 when they started advertising in the Santa Ana Register.

Akua Motor Inn used to be known as Akua Motor Hotel. The Palms restaurant used to be right next door.

Small old tiki bar, tucked back in a 60s-era strip mall on the Pacific Coast Highway. The decor inside is a mix of great old tiki decorations and horrid modern sports pennants.

Among other items, they have a concrete "Droopy Tiki" just as you enter on the right, also featured on page 229 of The Book of Tiki by Sven Kirsten. Named for the droopy eyelids, less than 10 are still known to have survived in various collections.

The bar keeps irregular hours, but if you do happen to stop by when they are open, their Scorpion Bowl comes highly recommended.

Today, as of 2023, this is a vacant lot.

Open perhaps as early as 1958.

The Outrigger was in the Surf & Sand Hotel. It was one of several restaurants owned by Glenn Billingsley, first husband of Barbara Billingsley of "Leave It to Beaver" fame.

Known for their celebrity bartender, Popo, who worked at several other locations and won some prestigious cocktail contests.

Mr. Vise Grip's Bamboo Bar was the small tiki bar within the 19 Broadway Nite Club, from 2003 until a fire damaged the space in 2009. The Nite Club remains, but the Bamboo Bar is no longer.

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.