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Old menu cover, original Trader Vic's, Oakland. Trader Vic's is a restaurant and tiki bar chain headquartered in Emeryville, California, United States.Victor Jules Bergeron, Jr. (December 10, 1902 in San Francisco – October 11, 1984 in Hillsborough, California) founded a chain of Polynesian-themed restaurants that bore his nickname, "Trader Vic".
In 1997, the restaurant was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. At the time, it was the only tiki restaurant in Ohio, and the only remaining supper club in Columbus. [3] It closed on August 26, 2000 due to prohibitively high maintenance costs and a significant loss of business, and so the property was sold to Walgreens.
The restaurant has a tiki theme. The interior is dark and decorated with carved masks, bamboo art, and artwork by Bosko and other revivalist tiki artists. [1] [3] Background music includes exotica and reggae. Artwork on the menu includes photographs of historic tiki-themed restaurants. [1] Surf films play on the bar's televisions. [4]
The Backstage Bar & Grill is slowly transforming into Tiki on Main, with a menu of Mexican and American favorites from Jalisco Mexican Restaurant and Tiki Time Bar and Restaurant.
The interior of the 58-seat restaurant remains mostly the same but with some subtle changes, such as Oriental bowls for the noodles, tiki-shaped mugs for drinks and music with a surfer vibe.
Bahooka was founded in 1967 in West Covina, California [10] and expanded to a second location at 4501 Rosemead Boulevard [7] in 1976 after losing its lease. [11] This allowed the Rosemead location to expand its dining area, adding a new room as well as more custom wooden/fiberglass aquariums, which then exceeded over 100 aquariums, many over 100 gallons in capacity. [12]
Pago Pago Lounge was a mid-twentieth century Tiki Bar named for and inspired by the capital city of Pago Pago on South Pacific Ocean island of American Samoa.Opened in 1947, it was the first Tiki themed restaurant and bar in Tucson, Arizona located in the Miracle Mile Historic District.
The drink menu included well known tiki drinks such as the Sharks Tooth, Head Hunter, and Fog Cutter, as well as the Chin Tiki Punch and the Chin Tiki Special, which was a communal drink meant for sharing, served in a large clam shell with long straws, and described as "a fusing of fine rums, brandy, liqueurs and fresh fruit juices crowned with ...