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Trader Nick's, Pismo Beach, CA (restaurant) |
bongofury
Grand Member (6 years) 
Joined: Oct 15, 2002
Posts: 1478
From: Ventura County
|  Posted: 2003-07-31 08:49 am Permalink
Name:Trader Nick's
Type:restaurant
Street:1601 Price Street
City:Pismo Beach
State:CA
Zip:93449
country:USA
Phone:(805) 773-4711
Status:defunct
Description:
Polynesian Restaurant and cocktail lounge next to the Kon Tiki Inn. Bought in 1999 by McClintock's and turned into \"Steamer's\" seafood restaurant. Sits on a bluff with great views of Pismo Beach.
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bongofury
Grand Member (6 years)
Joined: Oct 15, 2002
Posts: 1478
From: Ventura County
| Posted: 2003-10-05 1:24 pm Permalink
Here are some pictures from some matchbooks I have aquired ....
In the last pic there is one of those 2 tiki type bowls someone asked about recently and a Trader Nick's Grog Log drink menu.....
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TikiSteve
Tiki Centralite
Joined: Nov 23, 2003
Posts: 20
From: Santa Maria, CA
| Posted: 2003-11-25 9:28 pm Permalink
bongofury,
I enjoyed your pics on Trader Nick's. I went to Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo in the late Eighties and could have gone there anytime. But, unfortunately, Tiki was not a part of my life then and I never made it. I even moved back to the Central Coast a number of years ago and could have gone then; but no, alas, I was still lost and hopeless. Well, now that I have recently found Tiki, (or rediscovered Him from my childhood)I could just hit myself in the head with a coconut for not making it to Trader Nick's at least once! Oh well, like the financial area of my life, another missed opportunity!
TikiSteve
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christiki295
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Apr 09, 2003
Posts: 3616
From: LA-2547 mls east Hawaii &5500 Easter Is
| Posted: 2003-12-01 12:05 am Permalink
Incredible architecture, on the beach, with a tiki hut in front. What a gem!
Thanks for the photographs.
That would have been the true Central Coast attraction, Hearst Castle being secondary.
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Kenike
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jul 24, 2003
Posts: 1201
From: McKinney, TX
| Posted: 2008-04-11 12:40 pm Permalink
Found this postcard today:
Closeup of the middle pic:
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AtomicQ
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Joined: Apr 14, 2008
Posts: 6
From: San Francisco, Ca
| Posted: 2008-04-15 12:11 pm Permalink
My parent's live in Grover Beach and they just took me to Steamer's for the first time about a month ago. I wish it was still a Trader Nicks's. Thanks for the pics!
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Unga Bunga
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jun 06, 2003
Posts: 5734
From: CaliTikifornia
| Posted: 2008-04-17 11:34 am Permalink
Photo courtesy of Joel Fletcher
There are some cool photos in this guy's gallery.
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Dustycajun
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Nov 16, 2007
Posts: 3935
From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2008-04-18 6:49 pm Permalink
Unga Bunga
Great find on the old picture of Trader Nick's entrance and building exterior in all of its glory. I used to stop at Trader Nick's for Mai Tais and Pupu's on the way back home from skiing at Lake Nacimiento. Memories!
Here is a matchbook from Trader Nicks and the Kon Tiki Inn
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Tiki-Kate
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Sep 21, 2003
Posts: 1700
From: Yucaipa, CA
| Posted: 2008-04-22 7:43 pm Permalink
I just came across this photo that I took several years ago.
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Kenike
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jul 24, 2003
Posts: 1201
From: McKinney, TX
| Posted: 2008-04-23 4:11 pm Permalink
Oh, I see...Trader Nicks & the Kon Tiki Inn shared the same sign so they cut off the top of that sign for the postcard. I was wondering why the restaurant had a "jacuzzi pool." Actually, that would have been pretty cool as long as people didn't drop their food in the jacuzzi.
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Dustycajun
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Nov 16, 2007
Posts: 3935
From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2008-04-25 4:51 pm Permalink
Tiki-Kate, Thanks for the photo.
Here is another matchbook I have from Trader Nicks.
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Tiki-Kate
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Sep 21, 2003
Posts: 1700
From: Yucaipa, CA
| Posted: 2008-04-25 5:11 pm Permalink
I've got a couple of Trader Nick's matchbooks also.
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Lokepa
Tiki Centralite
Joined: Sep 19, 2010
Posts: 43 | Posted: 2010-09-19 09:12 am Permalink
Oh man! I used to hang out at Trader Nick's in the mid-80s... didn't think to save any matchbook covers tho... good times!
I haven't been to Pismo Beach in over a decade... anyone know what has taken Nick's place? damn shame its shut down...
ah ha! I read over the previous posts a little more closely and see its now called Steamers... correct? to be perfectly frank when i frequented the place in the early to mid 80s tiki was not on my mind necessarily... i'd just gotten divorced from my first wife and went there for the babes! LOL! but the atmosphere was perfect for that kind of that thing... you could sit at the bar listening to live music (definitely NOT exoctica or lounge then) and watch the Pacific rolling in whilst sipping your cocktail... ah the days of our dissipated youth eh?
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Dustycajun
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Nov 16, 2007
Posts: 3935
From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2010-12-29 5:28 pm Permalink
A match box from Trader Nick's.
Those four A-frames on the roof of Trader Nick's remind me of the Mono Kai apartments in Isla Vista.
DC
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bongofury
Grand Member (6 years)
Joined: Oct 15, 2002
Posts: 1478
From: Ventura County
| Posted: 2010-12-31 2:57 pm Permalink
I forgot to post this from January 24, 2007.
John Nichols remembered as a Pismo visionary, longtime resident, died recently at 78 years old. He started several well known South County restaurants including The Outrigger in Shell Beach, Trader Nick's In Pismo Beach, and WM. Cody's in Grover Beach (which is still there). OK DC time to look for stuff from The Outrigger (no longer there).
All I have from Trader Nick's is 4 or 5 matchbooks, this long sleeve t-shirt (90s?), and some pilings from out front (now in our back yard)
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