The Chart Room · Year by Year

1940

13 opened · 2 closed · 2 milestones

The Rivalry. Vic Bergeron studies Don's playbook and converts Hinky Dinks into Trader Vic's. The arms race begins.

On This Year’s Chart

Dated milestones

May 1Donn Beach makes his Chicago landfall — Don the Beachcomber opens at 101 E. Walton Place

December 18Trader Vic’s first Hawaiian outpost opens at 926 Ward Avenue — a pre-statehood trading post

Opened

New soundings

OpenedThe Aloha Club

OpenedClub Zombie

OpenedHawaiian Century Room

OpenedThe Luau, later the Coral Tree

OpenedMandalay Bar

OpenedMonte Proser's Beachcomber

OpenedMonte Proser's Beachcomber

OpenedPago-Pago

OpenedThe Pago Pago

OpenedThe Waikiki

OpenedTrader Vic's

OpenedThe Tropics at the Hotel Phillips

OpenedThe Tropics at Waikiki

Closed

Lights out

ClosedThe Hawaiian Blue Room

ClosedSouth Seas Club

Trade Routes

The empires move

Don the BeachcomberDon the Beachcomber Chicago — Chicago, IL opens