The Chart Room · Year by Year

1950

20 opened · 5 closed

The Golden Age. Polynesian palaces rise in every American city — supper clubs, floor shows, mystery drinks, three-story moai.

Opened

New soundings

OpenedThe Aloha Club

OpenedBen Lenhoff's Bali Bali

OpenedBamboo Cabana Room

OpenedThe Bamboo Room

OpenedBamboo Room

OpenedThe Beachcomber Lounge

OpenedThe Boom Boom Room (Ziegler's Charcoal House)

OpenedChina Dragon Motor Inn (Tikki Lounge)

OpenedThe Grass Shack

OpenedThe Hula Hut

OpenedKon-Tiki Room at Tropicana Lanes

OpenedMokihana Bar, Kōkeʻe Lodge

OpenedPolynesian Room

OpenedRoyal Hawaiian

OpenedThe Lanai

OpenedThe Torch Room (Reef Hotel)

OpenedGeorgie Rudin's Tropics

Closed

Lights out

ClosedThe Aloha Club

ClosedKen's Hula Hut

ClosedThe Luau, later the Coral Tree

ClosedThe Pago Pago

ClosedVagabond's House

Trade Routes

The empires move

Schuman's Chi Chi ClubsChi Chi — Santa Catalina Island, CA closes

Schuman's Chi Chi ClubsChi Chi — Hollywood, CA closes

Schuman's Chi Chi ClubsChi Chi — Riverside, CA closes

Schuman's Chi Chi ClubsChi Chi, Belmont Shore — Long Beach, CA closes