The Chi-Chi was one of a chain with locations also in Palm Springs, Hollywood, Riverside and Long Beach. The San Diego location opened in 1946 and included the South Seas Room. It closed in 1951.

As of 2023, this location is home to Urban India Restaurant & Bar.

The Hurricane was a tropical cocktail lounge opened in 1945 by Sam Stutz and Edward Bolander, who operated a number of other bars/restaurants in town. The bar went through a long series of owners before closing in 1960.

Opened in 1938, Bradley's Puka-Puka was a pre-tiki tropical rum bar that managed to remain open until 1970.

The bar was located on the mezzanine level of Bradley’s 5 & 10.

All drinks served were priced at five or 10 cents each and the menu featured 150 varieties of rum.

The original building was demolished in the early 1980s.

This lightly-themed tiki bar and restaurant was located below the South Beach Bar & Grill. Opened in late 2020, but closed just about a year later.

Opened June 10th, 2021.

This bar was next door to Palmetto and from the same team behind both The Kon-Tiki and Palmetto. In fact, it shared a door with Palmetto and served food out of the Palmetto kitchen. However, the Kon-Tiki Room was a dark tiki bar and felt entirely different from its next door neighbor.

The interior leaned heavily toward the nautical side and was designed by artist Woody Miller (Wood Tiki).

*NOTE: In an Instagram post by Palmetto on 10/06/2023, they announced that both the Palmetto and The Kon-Tiki Room would be closing for good on 10/29/2023.

King's Tropical Inn was opened in 1927 in Los Angeles/Culver City.

The inn stood at 5935 Washington Blvd. and was built in a Spanish/Moorish style.

Users recount that: "the place had tables in little roofless bamboo 'huts' and the painted night sky had moving stars and clouds. And 'tropical' music played."

They were known for their chicken dinners with biscuits and honey.

It was also a major pre-tiki location that updated and changed over the years. The Treasure Island Bar appears to be a newer edition, added in the late 50s or more probably, the 60s.

They did produce some souvenirs, including a ceramic ashtray with a chicken on it for their 25th anniversary in 1952.

Closed in 1968 and the building was later demolished.

This tiki bar appears to have been active @1961-1962.

It was later the location of the Bali Hai which ran from June of 1963-1969.

The Tropic Isle's tiki mascot figure was issued in mug form, both with and without dry ice pockets on top rim.

As of 2022, this location appears to be a Vans shoe store or adjacent to where the shoe store currently stands.

Opened in 2019 on the site of what used to be Buchanan Arms, a British pub.

Upon opening, there were minimal changes made to the decor (some skeletons and cutlases and nautical netting) but this was in keeping with what the owners described as a pirate bar serving up British pub fare (Fish n’ Chips, Bangers n’ Mash, and Shepherd’s Pie).

However, from early on they had a heavily tiki influenced cocktail menu.

The cocktail program and regular food menu received excellent reviews and customers were told that they were going to lean more heavily toward tiki with future updates.

Further remodeling took place and in November 2022, the bar re-opened with a much more heavily tiki influenced interior including tons of rattan and thatched huts. The pirates and skeletons are still there also, but the overall tropical ambiance is much enhanced -- right down to Jose and Juan, skeletal versions of the parrots found in Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room.

The name phased out from "The Burbank Pub" and into "Broken Compass" some time around the beginning of 2023.

Opened April 20th, 1958, specializing in Chinese style smoked ribs and tropical drinks. They did have branded tiki mugs as well.

Owners Tex Loving and Howard Lee spent $300,000 on this location, which replaced the original Samoa House located on Van Nuys in Sherman Oaks.

The building and furnishings were designed by Architect John Hutchison of Sherman Oaks, former partner of Hutchison, Kinsey, & Boeke. Structure was of contemporary styling and featured a roof of reinforced gypsum slab design. It was completely air conditioned.

Samoa House was a Valley institution and became a successful jazz club in the 1960's and 1970's...and closed by 1975.

Today, this is the location of a Chase bank.

This 1940s Pre-Tiki tropical bar was built inside of a WWII quonset hut with bamboo and thatch. Next to it was the Oxnard Airport where a military training squadron was and Howard Hughes kept some aircraft there.

Built in 1964.

32 units spread over 2 stories.

This apartment complex still has 14 tikis standing and they are in decent shape. This includes 12 guardians around the pool, one under a small shack to protect the map/directory, and a cool fern tiki by the pool fence.

It is located near the intersection of Garden Grove Boulevard and Brookhurst Street.

This location was built in 1962.

The theme was "pirate" with a good dose of Polynesian Pop, especially with the drinks.

This was one of the eight (at least) restaurants operated by the Specialty Restaurant company in the LA area that had various degrees of Poly Pop and Nautical themes.

Later, this site became Shanghai Red's, and then Whiskey Red's and at some point the roofline and interior were remodeled but much of the bones remain.

Most people associate Pieces of Eight with the cocktail of the same name which originated here and was later re-printed in Beachbum Berry's Re-Mixed.

Pieces of Eight: ½ oz Lime juice, 1 ½ oz Lemon juice, 1½ oz Passion Fruit syrup, and 1½ Aged Rum.

Shake or flash-blend with crushed or pebble ice. Pour unstrained into a tall glass, goblet, or tiki mug. Top with more crushed ice if needed and garnish with a lemon slice, a pineapple wedge, an edible flower – or all of the above!