This hotel, located about 40 minutes southeast of Chicago, featured a tropical atrium with an indoor pool, a waterfall, fake palm trees and some large tikis. There was a bar in the atrium, called the Khaki Club, that had live entertainment on Fridays and Saturdays.

The Radisson was leveled to make room for new development in 2017.

Owned and operated by Charles Chang and family, Fiji Island was around for at least thirty years, and at one time had a sister location in a Holiday Inn in Charlottesville, VA.

Food was typical Chinese, and drinks were served in tiki mugs (one of the bartenders here once worked at Trader Vic's).

There were tikis throughout, but they were of the brightly-painted variety that appears to be more common in that part of the country.

The basement of Fiji Island hosted a sometimes loud dance club, called the Club at Fiji.

Closed August 2016.

This property started out in 1948 as "El Rancho" and was built by Jack Nelson on 13 acres along Highway 17.

In 1965, it was renovated and re-themed as the Hawaiian Village Motel and Restaurant.

The restaurant had a small river running through it, with bamboo bridges to get across, and live bands in the "Bora Bora" room for entertainment.

The restaurant was destroyed by fire on Sept. 7, 1974. At the time, it was owned by Marion Cannon of Myrtle Beach, and Jack Shaw of Greenville, SC.

Currently, and since 1979, the site is home to the Village Square Shopping Center -- which is one of the earliest strip malls built in the area.

The Luau was located in the "County Airport," a.k.a. Borrego Valley Airport, and opened some time in the '50s or '60s. Open at least as late as 1967. The restaurant in the airport today is The Propeller Bar & Grill at 1816 Palm Canyon Drive, but it is not clear if this is the same space that once held the Luau.

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. Other locations were in Edmonton, Vancouver, Victoria and Winnipeg.

The Calgary location was open at least as early as 1967, judging by newspaper advertisements.

However, it burned down on April 19th, 1972, and there is now an office building where it once stood.

Opened in the late 1960s.

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. Other restaurants in the chain were located in Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver and Winnipeg.

This location was demolished to make way for the Broughton Tower in the 1980s, the ground floor of which housed a Fogg & Suds location.

Before becoming a Don the Beachcomber (around 1977 or so), this location was Tonga Lei.

It closed in 1987, and this location is now the non-tiki Malibu Beach Inn.

This was the original location for Psycho Suzi's Motor Lounge, which opened on this spot in an old A & W Drive-In in 2003.

In November 2010, Psycho Suzi's moved to its last location, which was much larger and more grand, just down the street. That location closed on August 19th, 2023.

Tonga Lei was a restaurant and motel right on PCH in scenic Malibu, and operated from 1961 until around 1977, when it became a Don the Beachcomber.

It had an Aloha Room, Waterfall Room, and Tonga Room.

The beachside property had been a common celebrity-sighting spot. Jayne Mansfield, the platinum blond ‘50s pinup, attended the opening of the Tonga Lei and the restaurant bar was the favorite hangout of the late television star David Janssen.

The decision to raze the property was made in 1987.

It's now the non-tiki Malibu Beach Inn.

*NOTE: Photo of entrance to the "Aloha Lounge" below is speculated to be a side entrance, not the main entrance.

Open as early as 1942, one of the best places in Portland to find a Polynesian Island escape was Pago-Pago at Southwest Sixth and Stark Street. It showcased a tropical theme from its bar to its live band. According to The Oregonian, materials from seven different countries were used to decorate the club, which cost $25,000 to build. On the menu were tropical cocktails, which weren't common at the time. In the 1950s, Pago Pago and its adjoining Turf Club came under the scrutiny of police during a crackdown of secret gambling dens. It closed in 1952 after lease difficulties and battles with City Hall over its liquor license.

Pacific was a newer bar and restaurant, and featured several large tikis, a koi pond, pufferfish lamps, and a Polynesian pianist. Private huts were available on the second level. The restaurant went out of business in July 2008, but the drink menu has reportedly been preserved at its sister restaurant, Cheng's Oriental Restaurant, also in Sterling.

This location became home to a Sushi King restaurant from 2017-2020, but is vacant as of 2022.

This was the restaurant on the top floor of Harvey's Wagon Wheel Hotel and Casino, also known as Harvey's Lake Tahoe. The Top of the Wheel featured a Polynesian lounge with decor by Eli Hedley, and had a logo "Sneaky Tiki." Mugs from Harvey's are still quite easy to come by.

The lower floors of the casino were heavily damaged by a bombing in 1980, part of a failed extortion attempt. The Top of the Wheel closed sometime in the early-to-mid 1980s. Harvey's Lake Tahoe has since rebuilt, but there is no tiki bar there today.