Tiki Bars
Lanai Hawaiian Food
São João, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (Closed)
Lanai Hawaiian Food was a restaurant in the Auxiliadora neighborhood of Porto Alegre. It was opened by Sarah Wojahn in June 2010, and closed in January 2015. The space was sleek and modern, yet still warm thanks to careful lighting and a smattering of bamboo trim. Two large, pale, Hawaiian tikis overlooked the dining room. The food was upscale, modern Hawaiian.
Tiki Limbo
Santa Elena, Ecuador
Tiki Limbo is a small hotel/hostel, restaurant and surf shop catering to the casual, backpacking tourists who come through this small coastal town. It was created in 2003 by the husband and wife team of Fernanda Solis (from Argentina) and Lorenzo Torre (from Spain). The couple supervised the full construction of the thatch-covered, '50s Americana, Polynesian Pop-inspired building. Every room of the entire building is thoroughly decorated in thatch, bamboo, and other tropical details and there are plenty of tikis.
The hotel has 11 rooms in both group and private configurations. The restaurant specializes in vegetarian fare, as well as seafood. The shop sells surf clothes and accessories, and offers surf rentals as well.
Element Home Furnishings
Santa Cruz, California, United States (Closed)
Element Home Furnishings was established in 2004 and offered a wide array of tropical furniture and decor, including tiki bars and tikis.
They used to be directly across the street at 723 Soquel, but moved some time around 2011-2013 and the old location is now a restaurant supply store.
The final location appears to have closed @2020.
Tiki Town Adventure Golf
San Diego, California, United States
Tiki Town Adventure Golf is a themed, 18-hole mini golf course. It opened in 2013 in Belmont Park, an amusement park in the Mission Beach neighborhood of San Diego. The course is charming and appropriately cartoonish, with tikis and Polynesian Pop elements found everywhere. A large volcano sits by the entrance, there are thatched structures with A-frames, and some of the holes have animatronic features. The course runs both indoors and outdoors.
There is a nearby Dole Whip stand in Belmont Park, under the Sky Ropes Adventure.
The Bamboo
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States (Closed)
Open at least as early as 1954, although the Tiki Room was a later addition.
The Bamboo was a Chinese restaurant that had a Tiki Room lounge. The Tiki Room was decorated with float lights, tiki masks, and of course lots of bamboo.
A Family Dollar Store is currently in this location.
The King Kamehameha Tiki House
Sedalia, Missouri, United States
The King Kamehameha Tiki House was built in 1964 by William Parkhurst, on his own private land. It is owned today by his grandson, Rob Parkhurst. It has been used as a rental facility for many decades, and is still available for rental today.
The building sits off of Highway Y and Dresden Road upon a man-made island in a man-made lake, with an arched bridge from the land to the island. The structure has four peaked roofs arranged in a sort of plus-sign shape.
The space was once decorated with many items acquired during trips to Hawaii, and King Kamehameha imagery was found all around the building and grounds in the form of metal cutouts.
Today it appears to have been renovated and modernized but the structure is still the same.
The Bamboo Grove of Westwood
Seattle, Washington, United States (Closed)
The Bamboo Grove of Westwood is the home of Tiki Artist Dawn Frazier, also known as Sophista-Tiki. It was a single-apartment vacation rental for a time, from about 2008-2016.
It is located in the West Seattle neighborhood of Seattle. The unit is filled with vintage midcentury furnishings including a rattan couch, and has a built-in bar and tiki mural. The unit has a full kitchen, wireless internet, off-street parking and a private bamboo garden. Two twin beds can be pushed together to make one king-size bed, and a third person can be accommodated on a fold-away bed.
Since about 2016, Dawn no longer makes The Bamboo Grove available for rent, and today it is just her private residence. It is still as spectacular as ever and Dawn is continually making improvements and additions.
Trade Winds Tropical Lounge
St. Augustine, Florida, United States
The Trade Winds Tropical Lounge has been in its current location since 1964; it had been located at 1 Aviles Street from 1945 until it was moved to unearth the ruins of an early hospital on the site.
The bar houses some lovely paintings and murals of wahines, and has a non-functional Witco fountain. No tropical drinks are offered; they have hard liquor, but this is more of a beer bar.
Hawaiian Village Motel
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, United States (Closed)
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.
Kon Tiki Camping Resorts
St. Augustine, Florida, United States (Closed)
The Kon-Tiki was opened in 1967 by former WWII veteran Bob Sonntag along with a group of investors.
Prior to opening the Kon-Tiki Mr. Sonntag was a director of marketing for a pharmaceutical company.
The 20' tall tiki was created to compete with other nearby state-run campgrounds.
In 1979 the investors chose to sell the property in large part due to rising value of oceanfront property.
At the time of the closing Mr. Sonntag says his campground hosted over one million guests.
Kon Tiki - Temple City
Temple City, California, United States (Closed)
Served "Authentic Cantonese Food". Also offered "Dining, Dancing, and Cocktails".
This location is now apparently Temple Liquor.
Kahlua Apartments
San Gabriel, California, United States
Built in 1965.
These apartments, now apparently condos, are less than a mile north of the now-closed Bahooka.
In addition to architectural details, the grounds feature some standing tikis and a working waterfall feature.
There is also a kidney shaped pool on the grounds.