The Chart Room · Year by Year

1934

2 opened · 1 milestone

The Invention. Prohibition dies in December 1933; within months Don’s Beachcomber is pouring on McCadden Place — first documented, fittingly, by a 1934 vice-squad raid — and the tiki bar is invented whole.

On This Year’s Chart

Dated milestones

September 1The Hollywood vice squad raids the Beachcombers' Club on McCadden Place — the first documented appearance of the first tiki bar

Opened

New soundings

OpenedThe Bamboo Room at the Racquet Club

OpenedTrader Vic's (Hinky Dinks)

Trade Routes

The empires move

Don the BeachcomberDon the Beachcomber — Hollywood, CA opens

Trader Vic'sHinky Dinks / Trader Vic's — Oakland, CA opens