Originally called the Waikiki Lounge & Supper Club.

The Green Turtle Restaurant was part of the Hawaiian Inn resort complex. Teauila's (pronounced like "tequila" would sound if the q was silent) Hawaiian Luau Dinner Show took place here four nights a week. The dinner show was a package deal, including the entertainment and a Chinese-food buffet; tropical drinks were extra.

The room featured lamps from Oceanic Arts, and a very heavy use of black-light. The show itself featured a full band, male and female hula dancers, and included a dramatic use of fire. A handful of male visitors were selected from the audience to try their hand at hula-ing on stage while wearing a coconut bra and grass skirt.

NOTE: This restaurant was closed as of 2017, although the Hawaiian Inn Resort still hosts a Hawaiian Luau Dinner Show in this space, but you should check for scheduling.

Just up the street you can find the Aku Tiki Inn and Traders Restaurant.

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 is the second Tropics restaurant opened by Peaches & Tony Guerrero. They also operated The Tropics at Waikiki.

Tony Guerrero was an "Island Boy". In the 1930's he went to Hollywood and acted in several movies. While there he meet the beautiful Peaches Jackson, who was pursuing her career in the movies. Tony co-owned his first bar/restaurant, the Hawaiian Hut, in Hollywood. When he sold it they moved to Hawaii. In 1940 they bought a waffle place and made it into the first Tropics restaurant (at Waikiki).

It was situated opposite the Royal Hawaiian Hotel.

The Tropics at Waikiki flourished and became an institution for visiting Hollywood stars to hang out at. It was eventually renamed "The World Famous Tropics at Waikiki".

In 1952, Peaches and Tony went to Paris to study at the Cordon Bleu, opening this second restaurant upon their return to Hawaii, the Tropics Ala Moana. This restaurant was as successful as the Tropics and the special house dressing became so much in demand that it was eventually bottled and to this day, Tropics Salad Dressings are popular on the West Coast and of course, in Hawaii, where they are made.

Dates are unsure for the close of The Tropics at Waikiki (still in business as late as 1955) but it became the Royal Lanai by the early 1960s.

This Ala Moana location existed until 1958 when the property was bulldozed to make room for the Ala Moana Shopping Center.

Why the Ala Moana location chose a wolf in an Aloha print cabana set as their mascot is unknown, but it was undoubtedly some sort of inside joke. This was, after all, pre-tiki times and the tiki iconography had not caught hold as the default for most mascots and advertising.

Tony died in 1985 and Peaches in 2002.

This circular 9-story Quality Inn Hawaiki was Destin's first high-rise building when it debuted in 1972.

The most impressive feature the tower once boasted was the revolving floor in the restaurant, Hawaiki. While the restaurant itself didn’t rotate, a large ring of tables on a track gave diners a 360 degree view of an area that had more beach than condos. It took about an hour to come full circle, and the concept, which was hailed as “ahead of its time” took some time getting used to.

The restaurant closed in 1987 due to high operating costs.

The tower was demolitioned in 2013.

This location had their soft opening at the end of August 2025.

Nestled right beside the entrance of LA’s Oldest Bowling Alley, Highland Park Bowl.

Metered street parking is available, and there’s also a parking lot just behind the building.

Run by Bobby Green and the 1933 group.

In keeping with the speakeasy theme established at the West Hollywood location, you must figure out the secret entrance...in this case, look to your left for your old sailing buddy, and play a little shell game for entry.

Once inside, the interior is decorated much like the West Hollywood location, with a plethora of fantastic swag lamps hanging from the ceiling, as well as lit netted glass fish floats, thatching, tapa cloth, actual carved tikis, and a large outrigger canoe suspended from the ceiling as well.

There have been several unaffiliated Blue Hawaii restaurants over the years.

This one, located in Lafayette, Louisiana was owned by Lionel Barrilleaux Jr. and was opened in the late 60s or early 70s.

In 1974, it underwent a name change to become the "Royal Hawaii Restaurant." Richard Kao became the new part-owner-general manager.

Not long after this, the property was acquired by Don Landry Sr. He adapted it to become one of the locations in his Don's Seafood chain, and the location is still part of that chain today (as of 2025).

This Pago Pago location (so many unaffiliated locations share the name) was known for its detailed mural on the front of the building.

It was a pre-tiki establishment that thrived in the late 40s and early 50s, serving Chinese and American dinners and "enchanting nectars of the South Seas".

It was certainly one of Marysville's most popular nightclubs. This was, in part, due to their bartender, Louie Ajuria. The chefs at Pago Pago were John and Katie Lim, prominent members of Marysville's Chinese community who were instrumental in developing and continuing Marysville's Bok Kai Festival after World War II.

Many years later, this space was home to Gigi's Nightclub (1990-1996), to the Pub and Grille, to Crocodile Grundies, to Martini's 227 (from 2003-2009), and lastly to Knockouts Sports Bar & Grill (2011).

The historic building that housed the original Pago Pago was destroyed in a fire on September 24th, 2011.

This is the oldest surviving tiki bar in Mexico (open since 1958).

It got pretty badly damaged during Hurricane Otis (2023), but it's been repaired and is up and running again.

It's on an island (La Roqueta) so you have to buy a tour which includes the boat trip and some food and drinks once you're at Palao.

"Malahini" translates to "stranger" or "newcomer" in Hawaiian.

This 35-room-motel opened at least as early as 1969.

The motel is a 7 minute drive south of where Oceanic Arts used to be, so it is a good guess that the tikis shown in the postcard photo were acquired there.

By at least as early as 2011, the motel was converted to the "Friendly Hills Inn" and all previous signage and tiki decor was removed. However, the structure is still intact and remains much the same.

In 2019, the Whittier City Council passed a law that would force this motel and at least three others in the area to close in 20 years, by 2039.

Neighbors blame the small motels along this corridor for a proliferation of crime. So, the Friendly Hills Inn's days may be numbered...

Opened @ 2018.

This is a small outdoor Tiki Bar/ Snackbar south of Leipzig/Germany.

The Tiki Room started out at the Toltec Building in December of 2020 and then moved to this new space in January 2023.

By all accounts this is a larger space. However, customers will recognize the tikis and other design elements from the old location.

There is also continuity with a similar drink menu to the old location. The food menu, however, is expanded.

Situated next to historic Duranguito in Union Plaza, The Tiki Room is located near Southwest University Stadium, the El Paso Convention Center, the Museum of Art, San Jacinto Plaza and more.

This was the sister location built in the late 1950s after the first location in Laguna Beach was already thriving.

The plans were announced publicly in the Santa Ana Register on January 16th, 1957.

It was located on South Los Angeles Street and Ball Road in Anaheim, which is now re-named Anaheim Boulevard. It was a converted home previously known as the Flynn Residence.

Plans were stated to include 5 acres of tropical gardens, swimming pool, luau parties, ukulele parties, aquaria with tropical fish, and Hawaiian and Cantonese foods.

Today, this location is occupied by the Anaheim Global Medical Center.