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Trader Vic's, Scottsdale, AZ (restaurant) |
uncle trav
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Joined: Apr 27, 2005
Posts: 1531
From: Kalamazoo
|  Posted: 2010-06-26 06:51 am Permalink
Name:Trader Vic's
Type:restaurant
Street:77 W. Fifth Ave.
City:Scottsdale
State:AZ
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country:USA
Phone:
Status:defunct
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I did not see a thread for this old location so I thought I would put one up. Opened in 1962 and closed in 1990. That's about all I know. Here are a couple of vintage photos from the Scottsdale Historical Society ca.1960's
and a matchbook from my collection.
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Dustycajun
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Posts: 3916
From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2010-06-26 07:54 am Permalink
Trav,
That Arizona historical site has got some nice photos, good research.
Here are the postcards I have from the Trader Vic's in Scottsdale.
The rendering of the building from the TV scarf on Tiki Gallery.
And a photo of the interior from a mag I grabbed on the internet.
The gal is drinking a Fog Cutter and splitting a Volcano Bowl, should be a fun date!
DC
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Slacks Ferret
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From: Calgary
| Posted: 2010-06-26 08:49 am Permalink
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On 2010-06-26 07:54, Dustycajun wrote:
The gal is drinking a Fog Cutter and splitting a Volcano Bowl, should be a fun date!
DC
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LOL!
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Digitiki
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Posts: 749
From: L.A. baby!
| Posted: 2010-06-26 4:24 pm Permalink
Here is picture of the old Trader Vic's Scottsdale building as it is now. Sad, but you can still see the old Vic's ghost in the roof line.
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abstractiki
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Joined: Aug 29, 2009
Posts: 582
From: Lodi, CA
| Posted: 2010-06-27 08:20 am Permalink
I was hoping someone would post a currant photo. I was searching the internet for one yesterday and couldn't find anything. Whenever I learn about a temple that is defunct or vanished I always wonder what is there now and what traces or artifacts might be left behind.
It is very sad to see these tiki temples desecrated and ruined. But these photos are also necessary to document their historical record.
Thanks Digitiki for this updated photo and nice postcards-n-stuff DC!
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danlovestikis
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Joined: Jun 17, 2002
Posts: 3553 | Posted: 2010-06-27 09:08 am Permalink
Thank you for these photos, what a loss.
Last week we drove by the Stockton Islander location and it had been demolished. Just flat land. Such a sad view. Thank you Abstractiki for the bamboo piece from there. Wendy.
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bigbrotiki
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Posts: 10558
From: Tiki Island, above the Silverlake
| Posted: 2010-06-27 12:57 pm Permalink
The above BEFORE and AFTER photos are such a great example of how the changes in architectural taste went parallel to car design, how the soaring A-frame phase (both in Tiki and in Googie architecture) only lasted from the late 50s to the early 60s, just like the tail fin phase for American cars.
Tail-finned cars and buildings!
Castrated A-frames
The fact that they capped the tips of A-frames like the one above, (and added more cut-off A-frames in front), has another parallel in that at the beginning of the 80s they sawed off the Outrigger beams jutting out of A-frames gables
It was like one big push to castrate the enthusiasm of mid-century America: What "jet-age" !!? WHO says "The Sky is the Limit" !?...Let's put a lid on that !
Cars-
1959:
1964
Outrigger beams:
Contemporary "huts":
Funny thing is that chain architecture has become so boring, that nowadays we might
think that the Pizza Hut photo is cool !
Also in the 1980s, the so-called "browning of America" did away with such amazing interiors as this coffee shop
...and created flat hung ceilings, with hanging plants, brown "rustic fabric" curtains and brown seating areas:
Aaaah! 
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thejab
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Joined: Mar 25, 2002
Posts: 2984
From: Forbidden Island, CA
| Posted: 2010-06-28 3:55 pm Permalink
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On 2010-06-27 12:57, bigbrotiki wrote:
It was like one big push to castrate the enthusiasm of mid-century America: What "jet-age" !!? WHO says "The Sky is the Limit" !?...Let's put a lid on that !
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Very well put! It corresponded with the changes in most popular music in the late 60s/early 70s too: mellow and laid-back.
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I do think it's pretty cool, mainly because I used to go there when I was a kid. The graphics and signage were definitely better than the new ones (which I won't insert due to copyrights, but we all know what they look like).
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Dustycajun
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Posts: 3916
From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2011-06-17 11:07 pm Permalink
Back to the Trader Vic's in Scottsdale. I picked up this postcard with a view from Fifth Avenue that has a little peak at the Trader Vic's building.
DC
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bigbrotiki
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From: Tiki Island, above the Silverlake
| Posted: 2011-06-18 12:07 am Permalink
Aaah, the quaintness of a small town shopping mall street, with the Tiki temple being the highest building. And all those great cars! Is that a golden Studebaker Hawk turning in on it there?
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Dustycajun
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From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2011-06-18 08:28 am Permalink
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On 2011-06-18 00:07, bigbrotiki wrote:
And all those great cars! Is that a golden Studebaker Hawk turning in on it there?
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A 1957 golden Studebaker Hawk indeed.
What a cool car that was - those great 57 fins.
DC
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JenTiki
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Posts: 1817
From: An island in the bay
| Posted: 2011-07-12 3:41 pm Permalink
This just in from the Trader Vic's Scottsdale Facebook page:
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We regretfully announce that after dinner on Saturday, July 30, we will no longer be in operation. Please come and visit us before then! Stay tuned for an exciting new dining concept from Hotel Valley Ho; details will be announced soon.
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tiki-tina
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Joined: Sep 04, 2004
Posts: 118
From: Phoenix
| Posted: 2011-07-12 4:38 pm Permalink
Yep! Just heard this.
Too bad, so sad, but we kinda saw this coming .
Happy to have thrown our bash there when we did.
AZ tiki is dying out...
1st Drift, and now TV's.
Happy we still have Hula's, The Bikini, and Kon Tiki!
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tropicali*honey
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Joined: Oct 15, 2007
Posts: 109
From: Austin, TX
| Posted: 2011-07-13 12:17 pm Permalink
UGH! I just saw this and I have a tiki road trip to AZ planned in September!
Boohoo!
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Dustycajun
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From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2013-02-08 9:28 pm Permalink
I got another postcard showing the view down 5th Avenue in Scottsdale starring Trader Vic's!
Close up of that crazy Tiki out front.
DC
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