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Saxony South Seas, Milwaukee, WI (restaurant) |
meega
Tiki Centralite
Joined: Aug 19, 2007
Posts: 39
From: Pewaukee WI.
|  Posted: 2011-11-14 11:41 am Permalink
I believe Saxony's started out as a more Germanic style such as Mader's/Karl Ratzsch's Restaurants(local) German fare, and began moving to more international fare in 1960 as these ads indicate:
It wouldn't be a stretch seeing the Luau nights becoming more & more popular at this point in time.
I'm not sure if this following ad is pre or post fire grand opening:
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Dustycajun
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Nov 16, 2007
Posts: 3923
From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2011-11-30 5:30 pm Permalink
Meega,
Hard to imagine Mader's turning into a Poly Pop joint! I think I still have my Boot stein from when I went there.
Reminds me of another Tiki-German twist, the Trade Winds Tiki motel with the Duetche Hof Restaurant.
But I digress. It's been a good month for Saxony South Seas stuff for me. I just got this really big drink and diner menu.
The cover with the Tiki and the Conch Blower.
Back of the menu salutation.
The best part - the illustrated drink page, what an eye popper.
I don't remember seeing the Trader Vic's style Suffering Bastard mug available at other Tiki places. And, you could buy all of the mugs there. They must not have been marked as I have never seen one with a South Seas logo.
DC
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meega
Tiki Centralite
Joined: Aug 19, 2007
Posts: 39
From: Pewaukee WI.
| Posted: 2011-12-01 11:07 am Permalink
Well Mader's is still Mader's, but I appears that Saxony's started to experiment, and their Luaus may have been enough of a hit to push a transformation to an all out South Seas theme.
BTW: Nice menus - shows there's still interesting stuff out there to be had.
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Dustycajun
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Nov 16, 2007
Posts: 3923
From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2012-01-12 11:32 pm Permalink
Found a full page newspaper ad for the grand opening. Not sure where the artist was going with that Tiki?
With some fuzzy photos of the interior.
The Shell Bar
The Maori spirit house
The dining room
The freebies and the entertainment
This place looked sweet, Tikis everywhere!
DC
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Dustycajun
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Nov 16, 2007
Posts: 3923
From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2012-01-22 09:01 am Permalink
Here is the chef and story on the food from the grand opening ad.
Just a few years later the Saxony shifted to an American menu as documented in this article.
The article also discusses the other two Milwaukee restaurants, the Leilani and Judge's Beyond the Reef.
I guess Milwaukee wasn't ready for three Poly-Pop restaurants!
DC
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Dustycajun
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Nov 16, 2007
Posts: 3923
From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2012-10-03 6:07 pm Permalink
A HA! I figured out where the iconic conch blower image used by the South Seas came from.
Ripped from a South Pacific Airlines travel poster!
But, the Tiki image was not borrowed from the South Pacific Airlines promotional photo!
DC
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bigbrotiki
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Mar 25, 2002
Posts: 10562
From: Tiki Island, above the Silverlake
| Posted: 2012-10-03 10:01 pm Permalink
Great archeology, DC. Thanks for all the informative material on this lost Tiki temple.
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