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The Hawaiian, Long Beach, CA (restaurant) |
Mongoloid
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Joined: Apr 25, 2008
Posts: 578
From: Long Beach
|  Posted: 2008-12-17 5:13 pm Permalink
Name:The Hawaiian
Type:restaurant
Street:4645 E. Pacifc Coast Hwy
City:Long Beach
State:CA
Zip:
country:USA
Phone:3-7407
Status:defunct
Description:
The Hawaiian was a restaurant/bar that served Cantonese Cuisine,charcoal broiled steaks and tropical drinks. They had a buffet at 12 daily. I bought a matchbook on Ebay then did a little more research and found some pictures of a postcard, which have some more interior shots. The building is now a Pep Boys.
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Mongoloid
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Joined: Apr 25, 2008
Posts: 578
From: Long Beach
| Posted: 2008-12-17 5:17 pm Permalink
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Dustycajun
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Joined: Nov 16, 2007
Posts: 4086
From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2008-12-18 11:42 am Permalink
Mongoloid
Here is another postcard that I have from The Hawaiian.
I also have this menu from the Hawaiian.
Don't think I have seen the matchbook from this place, maybe you could post that.
DC
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Tiki Shaker
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Joined: Jun 28, 2008
Posts: 702
From: Menifee, CA
| Posted: 2008-12-20 3:16 pm Permalink
I knew I had something a bit out of the ordinary from The Hawaiian. I dug thru my stuff and found it.
A business card, front and back.
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Dustycajun
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Joined: Nov 16, 2007
Posts: 4086
From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2008-12-20 4:00 pm Permalink
Tiki Shaker,
Very nice, the old business cards are hard to come by. I have been enjoying your posts, keep up the good work.
I still want you to add that Mark Thomas Outrigger postcard to the thread I started under Locating Tiki
Here is the matchbook I saw on ebay.
DC
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RevBambooBen
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Joined: Nov 12, 2002
Posts: 7420
From: Huntikington Beach
| Posted: 2008-12-21 09:09 am Permalink
the Brick is interesting.....
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Tiki Shaker
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Joined: Jun 28, 2008
Posts: 702
From: Menifee, CA
| Posted: 2008-12-23 5:55 pm Permalink
Stained napkin.
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bigbrotiki
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Joined: Mar 25, 2002
Posts: 11004
From: Tiki Island, above the Silverlake
| Posted: 2008-12-23 6:17 pm Permalink
That napkin, stains or not, allows for a much better view of the cool graphic on the back of the post card.
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On 2008-12-21 09:09, RevBambooBen wrote:
the Brick is interesting.....
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Maybe that place was some other unsuccessful restaurant venture (like Italian?) that was turned Polynesian because it was the rage? I like the lamps, simple balls and tubes with what looks like rattan swirls bent around them. Very tropical modern.
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Tiki Shaker
Grand Member (6 years)
Joined: Jun 28, 2008
Posts: 702
From: Menifee, CA
| Posted: 2008-12-23 6:52 pm Permalink
Yeah, I thought it was interesting how they combined two separate parts of the big logo - the tiki and the fruit bowl - to create the napkin graphic.
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Dustycajun
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Joined: Nov 16, 2007
Posts: 4086
From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2009-04-11 11:24 pm Permalink
Here is a better view of that really cool napkin.
DC
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1961surf
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Joined: May 03, 2007
Posts: 1910
From: Newport Beach, Ca .
| Posted: 2009-04-13 09:41 am Permalink
Ahh the good ole' days , when the air was clean and sex was dirty!
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Jason Wickedly
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Joined: Jan 01, 2008
Posts: 704
From: LBCTIKI
| Posted: 2009-04-14 12:04 am Permalink
How cool is that...I live less than five minutes away from that Pep Boys and I had no idea that was there. I'll have to ask my mom if she ever went there. My earliest memories of that corner are of it being a used car lot, but hell I'm only 34. Nice finds everyone.
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Bay Park Buzzy
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Joined: Apr 07, 2006
Posts: 2795
From: West Bay Park, San Diego, CA
| Posted: 2009-04-27 12:48 am Permalink
The Hawaiian matchbook...
with the inside text:
For the sake of being thorough...
Buzzy Out!
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Dustycajun
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Joined: Nov 16, 2007
Posts: 4086
From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2009-11-06 12:25 pm Permalink
Just nabbed this matchbook from the Hawaiian that has two new pictures that we have not seen before.
Here is the exterior, looks like there was a cool patio area on the side with bamboo fencing.
And the interior, another shot of those cool lamps. Looks like some nice place mats on the tables.
Also another version of the Tiki and the Hawaiian girl logo.
DC
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Dustycajun
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Joined: Nov 16, 2007
Posts: 4086
From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2010-01-15 10:54 pm Permalink
This matchbook from the Hawaiian Restaurant shows that it was once owned by Don May, who also owned the Leilani Hut in Belmont Shores (aka Long Beach). A small Tiki world indeed.
Here's a link to the Leilani Hut thread.
http://www.tikiroom.com/tikicentral/bb/viewtopic.php?topic=32715&forum=2&hilite=leilani
DC
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