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Hawaiian Village, Myrtle Beach, SC (motel) |
uncle trav
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Joined: Apr 27, 2005
Posts: 1543
From: Kalamazoo
|  Posted: 2009-06-21 4:58 pm Permalink
Name:Hawaiian Village
Type:motel
Street:U.S. 17 Nth. at 39th Ave.
City:Myrtle Beach
State:SC
Zip:unknown
country:USA
Phone:
Status:defunct
Description:
The Hawaiian Village was originally built in 1948 as the El Ranch Motel. It was renovated in 1965 and renamed the Hawaiian Village. The large grounds contained many small buildings including guest rooms and the Hawaiian Village Restaurant featuring The Bora Bora Room. A large pool with it's own island with palm trees was also on the property. The motel lasted until it was torn down in 1979 to make way for a new strip mall. I am not sure how Tiki the place was but the sign would make the top twenty list at least. I have many pictures with descriptions to post so give me a few and I'll get them right out. Thanks
First up a great rendering of the motel
And another from the collection of Tim Haack
A great interior shot of the restaurant
A menu from the collection of Wayne Aiken.
Now a little signage.
The lobby.
Check-in time.
Cooking for the luau.
Meeting room.
The pool.
That's all for now.
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uncle trav
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Posts: 1543
From: Kalamazoo
| Posted: 2009-06-21 6:33 pm Permalink
The menu is an obvious ripoff of the Hawaiian Village Tampa menu. Wonder if they did the matchbook as well, as many other establishments did.
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bigbrotiki
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Joined: Mar 25, 2002
Posts: 10601
From: Tiki Island, above the Silverlake
| Posted: 2009-06-22 06:10 am Permalink
Great material, Unc. Is it from a brochure? The "El Rancho" turns into "Hawaiian Village", what a classic. 
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tikiyaki
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Joined: May 18, 2004
Posts: 2677
From: The Exotic Port of REDONDO BEACH, CA
| Posted: 2009-06-22 08:52 am Permalink
Wow, that dining room looks great. Love the bridge going over stream, right in the middle of the place.
Why don't people do that anymore ?
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Swanky
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Joined: Apr 03, 2002
Posts: 4815
From: Hapa Haole Hideaway, TN
| Posted: 2009-06-22 09:54 am Permalink
My blather hawaiian-village-ii/" TARGET="_blank">post number 1 and hawaiian-village-restaurant-myrtle-beach-sc/" TARGET="_blank">post number 2 with relevant comments.
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bigbrotiki
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Joined: Mar 25, 2002
Posts: 10601
From: Tiki Island, above the Silverlake
| Posted: 2009-06-22 11:22 am Permalink
Good find, Tim. And the Tikis sure are Witco.
In Tiki Modern page 168 (the first image of Part 2) there is a rendering of those guys, the catalog being from 1962. Westenhaver sure peppered Florida Hotels with his wood!
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Grand Kahu
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Joined: Jul 31, 2006
Posts: 143
From: Dallas, TX
| Posted: 2009-07-29 10:05 am Permalink
See prior comments about the Hawaiian Village here:
hawaiian-village-restaurant-myrtle-beach-sc/" target="_blank">http://www.swankpad.org/blather/2006/09/15/hawaiian-village-restaurant-myrtle-beach-sc/
I frequented the restaurant as a kid - and yes, it was tres tiki with waterfalls, tiki mugs galore, etc. My first tiki experience (who can ever forget?). And yes, the restaurant burned to the ground and I doubt it was done in by a flaming Pu-Pu tray.
I was hoping the photographer of the interior of the restaurant might still have more interior shots, but he told me he had to use so many flash bulbs to just get that one shot, that was the only one he could take of that space!
GK
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Tiki-Kate
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Joined: Sep 21, 2003
Posts: 1700
From: Yucaipa, CA
| Posted: 2009-10-29 5:10 pm Permalink
Matchbook
 
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Max_Power
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Joined: Aug 09, 2009
Posts: 1
From: Columbia, South Carolina
| Posted: 2009-12-16 2:07 pm Permalink
I too stayed there as a child. I have old Polaroid photos of family and me lounging in tiki bliss. I remember drinking way too many Shirley Temples, walking over the bridge, and swimming to the island in the pool. I showed this thread to my wife to try and explain my tiki fever. I guess growing up in Philippines it is no big deal. But to dumb old county boy high on cherry juice and sprite it made a lasting impression. I’ll scan the Polariods and post over the Christmas break. Thanks for all of the details.
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My mother Patricia S. Bishop by the pool.
The Village July 1965
Check out the roof line.
The Village July 1966
The island in the pool.
The Village July 1967
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bigbrotiki
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Joined: Mar 25, 2002
Posts: 10601
From: Tiki Island, above the Silverlake
| Posted: 2009-12-16 6:36 pm Permalink
I love this thread, those brochure pics are too cool. This matchbook has a nice rendering of the Asian A-frame:
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Dustycajun
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Joined: Nov 16, 2007
Posts: 3951
From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2012-01-04 08:03 am Permalink
Bigbro,
I like this thread too. That is a great matchbook. Here is a photo that is for sale on-line showing the Asian A-Frame and another neon Tiki that was on the grounds. I am assuming that is the restaurant building.
Speaking of the restaurant, found this article. It met a fiery death on September 7, 1974.
Sure a lot of Poly Pop places that went up in smoke. Something to do with the "flammable decorations inside" no doubt.
DC
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Dustycajun
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Joined: Nov 16, 2007
Posts: 3951
From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2012-05-26 3:47 pm Permalink
I just got these three orange swizzles from the Hawaiian Village. I am assuming they had to be from this place as the Hawaiian Villages in Hawaii and Tampa had their own logo swizzles.
The Tiki looks a bit like the PMP Tiki mug.
The font on the swizzle also looks a lot like the font on the matchbook that Bigbro posted.
DC
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bigbrotiki
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Joined: Mar 25, 2002
Posts: 10601
From: Tiki Island, above the Silverlake
| Posted: 2012-05-28 4:15 pm Permalink
Did you say ORANGE swizzle sticks? Three of them? 
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