The Chart Room · Year by Year

1936

3 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

November 26Harry Sugarman opens Sugie’s Tropics on Rodeo Drive — the room that becomes The Luau seventeen years later

Opened

New soundings

OpenedChristian's Hut

OpenedThe Hawaiian Hut

OpenedThe South Seas (Coast Inn)

Trade Routes

The empires move

Schuman's Chi Chi ClubsThe Chi Chi — Palm Springs, CA opens