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Trader Vic's (Benson Hotel), Portland, OR (restaurant) |
Dustycajun
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Joined: Nov 16, 2007
Posts: 3936
From: Santa Barbara, CA
|  Posted: 2009-06-13 09:14 am Permalink
Name:Trader Vic's
Type:restaurant
Street:Benson Hotel
City:Portland
State:OR
Zip:
country:USA
Phone:
Status:defunct
Description:
The Trader Vic's located in Portland's Hotel Benson was the 7th restaurant in the TV chain. It opened as one of Vic's Outrigger restaurants in 1959 and closed in 1996.
Here is a postcard of the interior showing one of the more unique looking Trader Vics. Bigbro indicated that those are Barney West masks.
Here is a card showing the exterior of the Hotel Benson with the Trader Vics sign and a peak at the entrance.
A close-up.
A rendering of the entrance from and old TV scarf.
This location had a distinctive logo with the tiki and the entrance in a green color for the matchbook.
And the menu
DC
[ Edited by: Bora Boris - Changed Title. - 2012-03-14 18:21 ]
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Tiki Kupcake
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Joined: May 07, 2008
Posts: 362
From: Portland, OR
| Posted: 2009-06-13 3:10 pm Permalink
I'm so sad this is gone. There was some talk going around for a while that they were going to open a new TV's here. Unfortunately, that talk has died down.
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Dustycajun
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Joined: Nov 16, 2007
Posts: 3936
From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2009-06-17 2:48 pm Permalink
Here is the standard matchbook from Trader Vic's at the Hotel Benson.
DC
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arriano
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Joined: Jun 13, 2006
Posts: 1124
From: Birdland - San Diego
| Posted: 2009-06-18 09:32 am Permalink
Is the Hotel Benson still around? And if so, what's in the Trader Vic's space currently?
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KeithH
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Joined: Feb 15, 2009
Posts: 103
From: Portland, OR
| Posted: 2009-06-18 10:12 am Permalink
The hotel is still there and the space now holds a nice steak house called El Goucho. yummy!
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Bora Boris
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Joined: Mar 25, 2005
Posts: 2404
From: Boogie Wonderland
| Posted: 2009-06-18 10:31 am Permalink
El Goucho has a Mai Tai on their menu. Nice!
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Dustycajun
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Joined: Nov 16, 2007
Posts: 3936
From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2009-06-18 11:43 am Permalink
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On 2009-06-18 10:31, Bora Boris wrote:
El Goucho has a Mai Tai on their menu. Nice!
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BB,
Nice find. What a cool tribute to the man. Trader Vic must be looking down from that great Peacock chair in the sky and smiling.
DC
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tikidon
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Joined: Oct 06, 2003
Posts: 30
From: portland OR
| Posted: 2009-07-02 4:26 pm Permalink
The blocks are still there!
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bigbrotiki
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Joined: Mar 25, 2002
Posts: 10566
From: Tiki Island, above the Silverlake
| Posted: 2009-07-03 04:37 am Permalink
Cool! I could use those modernist patterns for my Look of Tiki book, which will have concrete block patterns from the Chin Tiki, the Mauna Loa and the Beverly Hills Traders in it.
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Sabu The Coconut Boy
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Joined: Aug 20, 2002
Posts: 2784
From: Carson, California
| Posted: 2009-09-03 12:03 am Permalink
Here's a full-page photo from a program promoting Portland's brand-new Memorial Coliseum in 1960:
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Coco Joe
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Posts: 721
From: Los Angeles
| Posted: 2009-09-03 12:23 am Permalink
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On 2009-09-03 00:03, Sabu The Coconut Boy wrote:
Here's a full-page photo from a program promoting Portland's brand-new Memorial Coliseum in 1960:
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reminds me of a place I've been recently
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Dustycajun
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Joined: Nov 16, 2007
Posts: 3936
From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2009-10-10 10:19 am Permalink
Picked up a luncheon menu from the Trader Vic's at the Hotel Benson.
DC
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Dustycajun
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Joined: Nov 16, 2007
Posts: 3936
From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2009-11-01 09:08 am Permalink
Just got another menu from the Trader Vic's at the Benson Hotel in Portland. They sure had a variety of menu covers here.
DC
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Dustycajun
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Joined: Nov 16, 2007
Posts: 3936
From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2011-09-04 11:37 am Permalink
I was reading an article on Oregon Live about the new Trader Vic's in Portland and it had an interesting story about Bob Parsons, a manager at the first Trader Vic's restaurant. He was able to save some artifacts from the original location and has them displayed at his home in Portland. Here are some photos from the article.
Here is a link to the article.
http://www.oregonlive.com/dining/index.ssf/2011/07/trader_vics_brings_tiki_theme.html
Would be interesting to see what else Mr. Parsons has in this collection from the original restaurant.
DC
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Dustycajun
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Joined: Nov 16, 2007
Posts: 3936
From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2011-09-04 11:53 am Permalink
That fish hanging shows up nicely in Sabu's photo On the right).
Also found another photo on Oregon Live from the original Trader Vic's in Portland. Check out those masks!
DC
[ This Message was edited by: Dustycajun 2011-09-04 11:55 ]
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