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Chub
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From: Detroit, MI but now in sunny Los Angeles
|  Posted: 2009-03-12 11:03 pm Permalink
Name:Trader Vic's
Type:restaurant
Street:1539 Washington Blvd.
City:Detroit
State:MI
Zip:48226
country:USA
Phone:
Status:defunct
Description:
This Trader Vic's location was on the ground floor of the Statler-Hilton Hotel in downtown Detroit. The entire hotel was razed in 2005.
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Chub
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From: Detroit, MI but now in sunny Los Angeles
| Posted: 2009-03-12 11:06 pm Permalink
Pictures from Wayne State Collection
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Chub
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From: Detroit, MI but now in sunny Los Angeles
| Posted: 2009-03-13 12:06 am Permalink
Post card
This next pic is from the www.forgottenmichigan.com site. I believe this to be the Chinese ovens.
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arriano
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| Posted: 2009-03-13 09:25 am Permalink
Out of curiosity, what's at this site now? I'm betting on a parking lot.
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Dustycajun
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From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2009-03-13 11:39 am Permalink
Chub,
Nice post. First time that I have seen the TV in Detroit. Please tell me it is not a parking lot!
DC
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Chub
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From: Detroit, MI but now in sunny Los Angeles
| Posted: 2009-03-13 11:58 am Permalink
Since 2005, it's been nothing but a dirt lot. Not even used for parking as far as I know.
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arriano
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From: Birdland - San Diego
| Posted: 2009-03-13 2:14 pm Permalink
Well, thank goodness they tore it down then.
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uncle trav
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From: Kalamazoo
| Posted: 2009-03-13 3:29 pm Permalink
Chub. Thanks for posting those great Michigan images. Keep up the great work.
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TabooDan
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Joined: Jul 18, 2004
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From: BC, Canada
| Posted: 2009-03-13 5:27 pm Permalink
Hey Nice one Chub!! Cool to see as I have only heard of it and had never seen anything on it before.
Glad it has a home on here now.
TabooDan
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mudbone
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Joined: Nov 12, 2008
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From: michigan
| Posted: 2009-03-13 5:35 pm Permalink
From all us people from Detroit, thanks Chub. Most of us don't know what the golden age of Tiki was like in Detroit.Warm tropical breezes, tikis,rum drinks,hula girls,I guess we will never know.
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uncle trav
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From: Kalamazoo
| Posted: 2010-06-26 07:01 am Permalink
Here is a small matchbook from my collection.
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Chub
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From: Detroit, MI but now in sunny Los Angeles
| Posted: 2010-06-28 10:07 am Permalink
Nice matchbook Uncle Trav. Strangely, I never came across one of those while living in Detroit.
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bigbrotiki
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From: Tiki Island, above the Silverlake
| Posted: 2010-06-28 10:42 am Permalink
Hey, I had missed this thread somehow. Looks like this Vic's had two nice and simple Barney West entrance Tikis, amazing what you can pull out of the shadows still (wish I knew how to save the zoom in):
Too bad that the second B&W pic was framed right between the two Tikis! I mean what was that photographer thinking! 
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Chub
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Posts: 258
From: Detroit, MI but now in sunny Los Angeles
| Posted: 2010-06-28 11:13 am Permalink
Don't know if this really that much better, but I tried...
 
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Java Jim
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Joined: Jul 19, 2010
Posts: 2
From: Michigan
| Posted: 2010-07-26 1:58 pm Permalink
Wow! I would have never even DREAMED we had a Trader Vics in Detroit!!! Thank you for posting that!
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