The Chart Room · Year by Year

1956

6 opened · 2 closed · 2 milestones

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

On This Year’s Chart

Dated milestones

July 13The Yankee Clipper opens on Fort Lauderdale beach — a hotel built to look like an ocean liner, with a bar below the waterline of its swimming pool and portholes cut through to watch the swimmers

December 28The Mai-Kai opens in Fort Lauderdale — still pouring, a Living Legend

Opened

New soundings

Still pouringThe Mai-Kai

Still pouringWreck Bar

OpenedDon the Beachcomber (International Market Place)

OpenedLeilani Hut

OpenedPolynesian Room at the Yankee Clipper

OpenedShea's Tiki House

Closed

Lights out

ClosedThe Coral Isle