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Hawaiian Village, Tampa, FL (restaurant), Tampa, FL (restaurant) |
senioraqua
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Joined: Jul 11, 2004
Posts: 401
From: Tampa, FL
|  Posted: 2009-10-12 5:58 pm Permalink
Name:Hawaiian Village, Tampa, FL (restaurant)
Type:restaurant
Street:2522 N. Dale Mabry, US Hwy 92
City:Tampa
State:FL
Zip:33607
country:USA
Phone:813-877-5871
Status:defunct
Description:
Hawaiian Village was a massive Polynesian themed complex that offered a slice of \"Hawaii In Tampa\". There were several dining rooms including a Polynesian floor show, a cocktail lounge, and coffee shop.
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senioraqua
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Posts: 401
From: Tampa, FL
| Posted: 2009-10-12 6:27 pm Permalink
Here are some nuggets culled from The Tampa Times microfilm.
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Dustycajun
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Joined: Nov 16, 2007
Posts: 3932
From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2009-10-12 6:38 pm Permalink
Senioraqua,
Nice research.
I have a few postcards from the famous Hawaiian Village in Tampa.
Here are a few blow-ups of the Hawaiian Village card.
This graphic is from the menu
Nice Outrigger in the dining room.
Great mural on the wall
These pics are from the hotel brochure
DC
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senioraqua
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Joined: Jul 11, 2004
Posts: 401
From: Tampa, FL
| Posted: 2009-10-12 6:58 pm Permalink
Mahalo for the postcards DC
HV menus:
Dinner
Lunch
Breakfast
Drinks
Dessert
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Dustycajun
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Joined: Nov 16, 2007
Posts: 3932
From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2009-10-12 8:02 pm Permalink
Wow, that's a great collection of menus. Don't think I have seen the dessert menu before.
Here is the killer matchbook from the Hawaiian Village.
They had a lot of wild mugs, here is one of them.
DC
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Dustycajun
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Joined: Nov 16, 2007
Posts: 3932
From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2009-10-12 9:05 pm Permalink
Senioraqua,
Just noticed on the drink menu the Hawaiian Eye drink which came in that weird face-in-the-mug Good Luck mug.
Looks like this one and the Barrel of Rum were add on drinks after the menu was printed.
DC
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uncle trav
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Joined: Apr 27, 2005
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From: Kalamazoo
| Posted: 2009-10-13 05:02 am Permalink
Here's some stuff from my collection including the matchbook that launched a thousand copycats...well maybe not a thousand. The mug put me back twelve and a half cents. Two for a quarter.
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martian-tiki
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Joined: Sep 19, 2009
Posts: 309 | Posted: 2009-10-28 3:31 pm Permalink
This was on ebay a few weeks ago.
280409236133
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Sabu The Coconut Boy
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Joined: Aug 20, 2002
Posts: 2784
From: Carson, California
| Posted: 2009-12-27 3:44 pm Permalink
I recently obtained this postcard with an artist's rendering of the restaurant. If the artwork is true to life, then it looks like they had a handful of nice big tikis on the grounds.
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abstractiki
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Joined: Aug 29, 2009
Posts: 582
From: Lodi, CA
| Posted: 2009-12-27 6:54 pm Permalink
Here's an old snapshot pic of Hawaiian Village I got from Jordan Smith. Thanks Jordan!
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Swanky
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From: Hapa Haole Hideaway, TN
| Posted: 2011-03-11 09:25 am Permalink
The good old days of live accordian music at Happy Hour in the TIki bar!
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bigbrotiki
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Joined: Mar 25, 2002
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From: Tiki Island, above the Silverlake
| Posted: 2011-03-12 05:52 am Permalink
Quote:
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On 2011-03-11 09:25, Swanky wrote:
The good old days of live accordian music at Happy Hour in the TIki bar!
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True true...that and Hammond organ playing, too.
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kiara
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Joined: Apr 06, 2005
Posts: 97 | Posted: 2011-06-10 4:36 pm Permalink
Here's A nice crisp color shot of Hawaiian village Tampa I found recently. Look close at how many tikis are around the pool.
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pjc5150
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Joined: Jun 01, 2009
Posts: 1624
From: Tampa, FL
| Posted: 2012-08-01 09:31 am Permalink
Well, unbeknownst to most folks outside of Tampa, a few years ago the Hawaiian Village was purchased by a local restaurant chain called "the green iguana". The old Hawaiian Village had been turned into a Days Inn, and Green Iguana converted the restaurant out front, and reopened part of it as the Hawaiian Village, mainly as a concert venue.
It just so happens that my neighbor is a red bull rep and is good friends with the owners. For a while there I had her talking to them about having me do some tikis for them, but it kinda never happened.
And then the news hit that the property had been sold, and the whole thing would be bulldozed to make room for a car dealership...so yeah, briefly reopened, just to be closed again....
bummer...
http://www.tampabay.com/features/food/restaurants/tampas-stadium-green-iguana-hawaiian-village-to-close/1237152
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SandraDee
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Joined: Mar 11, 2011
Posts: 586 | Posted: 2012-08-01 10:30 am Permalink
I am from Tampa but never got to experience the Hawaiian Village ---although it was there when i was there I was just too young. Didn't think the Green Iguana would make it in that spot.
Just what Tampa needs..another car dealership. What does that make, 300 now?
Thanks for the update.
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