Mai Tiki was the business of tiki carver Wayne Coombs, and his Mai Tiki Gallery opened in 1973. Wayne started carving tikis in 1967, and continued carving tikis for 45 years. He was the pioneer of what has become a distinctive style for tikis out of Florida. He did custom work not just in carving, but also painting, and other tiki decor. His showroom offered a variety of one-of-a-kind tikis and masks.

Wayne Coombs passed away of a heart attack in September 2012, and the gallery closed in November 2013.

Opened in 1996.

Aloha Cruz was a vintage Hawaiiana store with some tiki offerings. Vintage tiki mugs, tikis and other tiki collectibles were for sale, along with vintage aloha wear and rattan furniture.

Aloha Cruz used to be located in Hermosa Beach, but in April 2004 relocated to a smaller space in Redondo Beach.

The storefront has been closed, and the owner now sells items online only.

For 10 years (1998-2008), Aloha Cruz organized a large vintage Hawaiiana collectibles event, called "Da Show."

The Green Garden Restaurant was established in 1948 on the south side of Kauai, and had a number of tikis inside. It closed in 2005 and appears to have been abandoned.

Opened in 2003.

Polynesian restaurant that was located in a strip mall, serving tropical drinks in tiki mugs, and featuring Oceanic Arts lamps and a few tikis.

It closed in July 2004 after being in business for a bit over a year.

This was a bar in Barrymore's Music Hall with a vague tropical theme -- a basic dive bar with some thatch here and there and a few plastic tikis. Tropical drinks were available.

Appears to have closed @2012 with some promotion for a comeback in 2020 that never materialized.

Spa Tiki was a large full-service spa. The spa took up two floors, and had tikis by Bosko sprinkled throughout the place. It felt very much like a modern, upscale spa, with relaxing music and dim lighting. There was a shop near the front counter with beauty supplies and soaps with a Hawaiian bent.

The investors in Spa Tiki were also investors in nearby Mister Tiki's Mai Tai Lounge. Spa Tiki opened in 2003, and closed in late 2009.

Built in 1968.

This 30-room motel features an A-frame at the front and a sign with spears, although it is now much shorter than the original sign.

There used to be many more tikis around the grounds, but it appears a previous owner in the 1990s cleared out many of the weathered original tikis and tried to remodel things for a more Japanese aesthetic.

Despite this, there are still quite a few Witco tiki lamps in many of the rooms as can be seen in their promotional materials.

*Not to be confused with the Tiki Village Supper Club that once existed in Prince George.

This used to be Samoa Hut.

The Harbor Hut has been family owned and operated since 1951.

There is also a fish and chips take-out building on the property called "The Li'l Hut".

Their original outdoor tikis have deteriorated and they have replaced some of them with more modern carvings. One old standing rootball headed tiki has lost his body and just the head remains if you compare earlier to later photos below...

Built in 1962.

This manufactured home community consists of 90 one-story units.

The community lies very near the Pacific Ocean, and once boasted a Manager's Office built to look like a long house, with two large tikis guarding the entrance. The tikis were removed sometime @2006, and today nothing noteworthy remains.

The Crowne Plaza, originally the Hanalei Hotel (built in 1959), was remodeled and expanded just a few years later to include features like flaming Moai and Tikis atop its towers. This 1964-1966 expansion was by Hendrick & Mock, architects.

This hotel was also host to Islands Restaurant and Islands Sushi and Pupu Bar.

The hotel became part of the the Crowne Plaza chain, and was later formally called the Crowne Plaza San Diego. Before becoming a Crowne Plaza hotel, it was a Red Lion hotel, and before that it was a Best Western. The sign for the Hanalei used to be a fantastic example of Googie signage, but tragically, it was replaced with an exceedingly bland sign when "updated" by Best Western. The "Hanalei" name was dropped entirely from use when it became the Crowne Plaza in 2007.

For many years, the Crowne Plaza was able to retain a little bit of its Polynesian feel, including tikis salvaged from Steve Crane's Luau in Beverly Hills. It is a large hotel, and the remaining tiki touches were more scattered than immersive.

In late 2006, the Islands Restaurant was gutted for "renovation", and the amount of tiki to be found here dwindled to near nothingness by 2024.

*This site was a host of the ever-growing Tiki Oasis event (2006-2019) before it moved and was held at San Diego's Paradise Point (2020) and later re-located to San Diego's Town and Country in 2021. From 2001 to 2005 Tiki Oasis was held at the Caliente Tropics in Palm Springs.

In the beginning of the Covid pandemic the hotel was contracted by the city to house homeless Covid victims (and then later, apparently immigrants) and this restaurant was closed since @2020 to the public. Fences and security were put up and those not registered to stay were turned away. Then, another remodeling was completed and the hotel opened back up in 2024 to show that nearly all traces of Tiki decor had been removed from the premises, save some lava rock on some of the walls and some tiki railings.

So, although you can visit the hotel now, as of 2024, it is essentially finished as a tiki point of interest, save for the memories.

*NOTE: House of Buzz (Buzzy Meeker) was able to salvage much of the removed decor and tikis. He sold them through direct sales and through an auction, complete with auction catalog. The catalog could be purchased through his Etsy store. One particularly large and noteworthy tiki (seen below with model) and attributed to Mexican artist Deme Chavez (carved from South American hardwood in the 1950s) stood proudly in the Hanalei garden atrium for decades but now has a new home at False Idol in San Diego.

The last remains of Bali Ha'i at the Beach in New Orleans were relocated to this park next to city hall in Kenner (near the New Orleans airport). There are two tikis, and an A-frame gazebo at picnic shelter #4.

Opened in 1992, the White Elephant was a Polynesian/Asian restaurant in the Andromeda Hotel, an upscale boutique hotel. Suiting the hotel, this restaurant was decorated in a manner considered more elegant to the mainstream -- no tikis.

It did have wicker-backed chairs with leopard spotted upholstery on the seats but that was about as far as the exoticism went.

It is unclear when the conversion happened, but this location appears to be home to a Best Western Plus Embassy Hotel and the White Elephant is no more.

It appears they still have the wicker chairs...