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Hawaiian Room, Baltimore, MD (restaurant) |
johntiki
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Joined: Mar 31, 2002
Posts: 1528
From: MD
|  Posted: 2013-02-06 8:06 pm Permalink
That's awesome - for the longest time that shot was the only glimpse we had of the Hawaiian Room and now to own it is just amazing! Congrats!
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Johnny Dollar
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Joined: Oct 01, 2003
Posts: 3063
From: Columbus, Ohiya
| Posted: 2013-02-07 05:44 am Permalink
i had only seen postcards, never a photo with the sign - so i bought it asap! 
more photos:
Pele Tiki performing a solo hula in holoku dress
Kanani in background with Pele Tiki in foreground doing solo Tahitian
an ad from the baltimore sun, 1964
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Johnny Dollar
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Joined: Oct 01, 2003
Posts: 3063
From: Columbus, Ohiya
| Posted: 2013-07-26 05:41 am Permalink
interesting... yesterday i bought a skull mug through craigslist for the hawaiian room.
the previous owner had bought it at the hawaiian room in 1959 or 1961 when visiting with his brother. they were both "in the service."
compare this one (the smaller, whiter one with the OTAGIRI markings) with the other one, which is more beige and larger, although possibly from the same scuplt.
the text on the whiter, smaller skull is the "chop suey" font that matches the font on the angry bearded mug. i looked on ooga-mooga, and all the cataloged examples of this skull have the larger blocky letters like the one on the larger, beige skull.
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Johnny Dollar
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Joined: Oct 01, 2003
Posts: 3063
From: Columbus, Ohiya
| Posted: 2013-11-07 07:17 am Permalink
bought this yesterday thru craigslist from the original owner.
note the description of the drink and recipe for this mug:
Diamond Head Special
$1.50
Jamaican Rum and Sweet Angostura Bitters
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Johnny Dollar
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Joined: Oct 01, 2003
Posts: 3063
From: Columbus, Ohiya
| Posted: 2015-11-11 8:10 pm Permalink
hey all... i have had the great good fortune to have acquired some Hawaiian Room ephemera for both myself and other interested parties... here are some photos thereof:
the kon-tiki mug... but check out the back!
text variations!!!
bases, no variation.
the drink menu!
detail!
Russ Link!
ALOHA
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uncle trav
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Joined: Apr 27, 2005
Posts: 2224
From: Kalamazoo
| Posted: 2015-11-12 03:30 am Permalink
Great stuff!! Love the tiki in the last image of your post. Exact copy of the Ren Clark logo tiki
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Aloha pinball
Grand Member (first year) 
Joined: Nov 10, 2012
Posts: 49
From: Florida - New Mexico- Maryland
| Posted: 2017-06-26 9:56 pm Permalink
This is an awesome piece of historical research! I just obtained one of the moa swizzle sticks from the Hawaiian Room - along with a bunch of Tiki mugs from the same family. Three of them are unmarked but look very much like the tiki with his hands on his tummy in the images posted above. I wonder if they might be "lost" (unmarked) Hawaiian room mugs? Ill post an image if I cant find the same mug on Oooga Mooga.
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Johnny Dollar
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Joined: Oct 01, 2003
Posts: 3063
From: Columbus, Ohiya
| Posted: 2017-06-27 05:25 am Permalink
that would be awesome, thanks!
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Staredge
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Joined: Jul 15, 2008
Posts: 115
From: Germantown MD
| Posted: 2017-06-27 4:16 pm Permalink
An..........interesting Mai Tai recipe.
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