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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.
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]
A former engineer for Ford, Chin designed the restaurant himself, and had a hand in most of the construction. [3] Inspired by the burgeoning Tiki culture fad of the 1950s and 1960s, the first floor restaurant was ornately decorated "with towering tiki statues, waterfalls and a bamboo bridge." [3] It also featured a large black light aquarium mural.
The Sandtrap, highly anticipated restaurant on Riverview Highlands Golf Course, now open. Gannett. Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press. May 10, 2024 at 10:09 AM.
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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".
Jeff "Beachbum" Berry (born c. 1958 [1]) is an American restaurant owner, author, and historian of tiki culture, particularly the drinks associated with the tiki theme. In addition to researching and reconstructing lost recipes, he has invented and published his own cocktail recipes.
When Riverview Theater opened in Norfolk in 1947, it boasted state-of-the-art amenities for the time: 700 seats, postwar air conditioning and an indoor box office, allowing patrons to stand inside ...