This pre-tiki bar with its classic neon palm tree sign outside dates back to the 1940s but eventually succumbed to the wrecking ball some time after the late 1990s.

Frank Kerwin's restaurant, The Seacomber, “America’s Tropical Showplace,” opened at 22725 Pacific Coast Highway on April 4, 1946.

This pre-tiki showplace included dining and cocktails within The Royal Hawaiian Room, the Coral Sea Cocktail Bar, the Princess Pupule Room, the Marine Deck and the Grand Salon.

Kerwin, a former boxing announcer and sports promoter, had previously managed the Club New Yorker in the basement of the Hotel Christie on Hollywood Boulevard, and The Merry-Go-Round cocktail lounge in the CBS Radio Playhouse on Vine Street.

This venue must have lasted at least through 1950, since newspaper ads proclaim the opening of a sister location on November 1, 1950, when Frank Kerwin opened the Wilshire Seacomber at Wilshire and San Vicente.

It is not clear when these two locations closed.

Today, the original Malibu location is home to a McDonalds.

Opened in 1960.

24 lanes “equipped with automated pinsetters, a billiard room, children’s playroom, coffee shop, and cocktail lounge”.

The top of their exterior sign was a horned tiki mask, which although it is blurry on their matchbook logo, is clear and crisp on their award ashtrays that were given out to exceptional bowlers.

Closed in 1968.

This speakeasy tiki bar opened in 2022 in the basement of the Barney's Beanery in Pasadena.

It is a large space and is lined with several booths, a wall lined with coconut monkeys, and many float lamp lights suspended from the ceiling for atmosphere.

It doubles as their live events space with

KARAOKE NIGHT: Thursdays from 10pm to close, Fridays and Saturdays at 9:30pm

and

COMEDY NIGHT: Every Wednesday Home Cookin Comedy! Hosted by Leonard Smith Jr. & Pasadena's Best Free Comedy Night

Opened at the beginning of 2025 in what used to be the lobby of Oceanside's Brick Hotel (established in 1988), The Lobby Tiki Bar & Grill replaces the former Q&A Restaurant and Oyster Bar.

Owned by Pete Cich, of Grind & Prosper Hospitality.

The space is decorated with lauhala matting on the walls, fake foliage, and tiki masks.

They have a full cocktail menu and serve cocktails in tiki mugs.

Early reviews report that although the interior decor may not be as extensive/immersive as some tiki venues, the food and cocktails are both on point and, exotica music is often played.

So, overall, a good strong start.

The Tiki Mirage cocktail bar started in 2019 as a pop-up in West Los Angeles. It's now a bookable cocktail experience for parties and collaborations, re-located to Chinatown for the time being.

Founders Max Masuda-Farkas, Aaron Girard, and Nick Newberg, decked out a box truck with a detailed tiki interior and crafted it into a show with its own original story.

Those who book the $85 gratuity-included tickets will be asked to meet at a Google-pinned location in Chinatown and get escorted over to the truck. Once seated, bartenders will assemble a cocktail menu by World’s 50 Best Los Angeles bar Thunderbolt while the trio tells a narrative based on tales of a fictional sea explorer named Daniel T. Coleridge.

This liquor store was re-located to this location at 8 41st Avenue when the Lanai Bar & Restaurant closed in 1988 -- later to become a Walgreens.

Before this, from @1960-1988, it was located between the Villa Chartier and The Lanai (right next to the main entrance), in the Villa Square.

The store had a beautiful neon sign and a Barney West tiki out front at one point.

The Barney West tiki was sold off due to the owner's financial difficulties when their liquor license was revoked in 2002.

Closed @ 04/2024. Later became Phillips Liquor, and more recently King's Liquors.

These unnamed Duarte Apartments probably had a very Polynesian or Island-themed name when they first opened, but have switched hands several times and are often just named unimaginatively as "Duarte Apartments" or after whichever managing company owns them from year to year.

This is a 30-unit courtyard-style multifamily property built in 1966, with 23,917 square feet of building and an oversized lot of 52,024 square feet. The property has a mix of two three-bedroom/two-baths, nineteen two-bedroom/one-baths, and nine one-bedroom/one-bath units. The property features two A-frame main entrances with tiki poles forming the frames. A round glass swag lamp hangs from the tallest points.

There are also tiki railings (or there used to be) leading up to these entrances.

Inside is a tiki roof decoration over the tenant mailboxes.

In back is a community pool.

This location had a very nice sign once-upon-a-time and was located on El Centro's motel row @1960s-70s.

Around 2012 it was converted to the "American Inn" and later to "Villa Hermosa Apartments".

This Trader Vic's was opened in 1975, along with the opening of the Hotel Toronto (later the Hilton Toronto).

Closed in 1991.

Now occupied by a Ruth's Chris Steak House.

Opened summer of 2021.

Build-out completed by Northstar General Contracting.

The duo of owners behind the bar are also the owners of Saint Franks, located on Broad Street.

The bar does have a limited food menu and also features a private karaoke room.

This Chinese and Polynesian eatery appears to have opened in the 60s or 70s.

At some point, the very Polynesian interior (seen from an early postcard) was refurbished and all the bamboo and rattan and lauhala matting was stripped out, leaving only the amazing swag lamps to mark that this had been anything other than just a normal Chinese restaurant.

It was open at least through 2016 when these later photos were taken below.