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The Chart Room · Year by Year

1960

45 opened · 13 closed · 1 milestone

High Water. Hawaiian statehood pours gasoline on the fire. The early 1960s are the flood tide — more tiki temples pouring than any time before or since.

On This Year’s Chart

Dated milestones
June 20Ren Clark’s Polynesian Village opens in Fort Worth’s Western Hills Hotel

Opened

New soundings
OpenedAku Aku
OpenedAku Aku Polynesian Room
OpenedAloha Room
OpenedBali Hai
OpenedBillingsley's Outrigger
OpenedBob Lee’s Islander
OpenedBora Bora
OpenedClub Trade Winds
OpenedThe Copper Galley
OpenedThe Dobbs House Luau
OpenedDug's West Indies
OpenedDuke Kahanamoku's
OpenedFiji Island
OpenedHawaiian Gardens
OpenedHo Kong
OpenedHo Toy Luau Restaurant
OpenedJade East
OpenedJade East
OpenedKona Kai (Plaza Inn)
OpenedThe Kona Kove Lounge
OpenedLahala House
OpenedThe Luau Hut
OpenedThe Luau
OpenedThe Makai Room
OpenedMauna Kai
OpenedMauna Loa
OpenedOmni Hut
OpenedPopo's Coffee Shop & Short Snorter Bar
OpenedPorts O' Call
OpenedRen Clark’s Polynesian Village
OpenedRoyal Tahitian
OpenedThe Samoa Restaurant & Lounge
OpenedSam’s Seafood
OpenedSouth Pacific
OpenedSouth Seas
OpenedSurf Rider Lounge (Andrew Jackson Hotel)
OpenedThe Tahitian Room at the U.S. Grant Hotel
OpenedThe Beach Boy — Aloha Room
OpenedThe Little Hut
OpenedThe Waikiki
OpenedTiki Hut
OpenedThe Tiki Lounge, Desert Inn Motor Hotel
OpenedThe Tiki Lounge — Heart O' Denver
OpenedTiki Supper Club
OpenedTrader Vic's — Detroit

Closed

Lights out
ClosedThe Bamboo Room
ClosedThe Castaways
ClosedClifton's Pacific Seas
ClosedHonolulu Harry's Waikiki
ClosedThe Luau
ClosedPago Pago
ClosedPantley's Pagan Hut
ClosedPikake Hut
ClosedPolynesian Room
ClosedRoyal Hawaiian Motel
ClosedSadowski's Colony House (Tahitian Room)
ClosedThe Hurricane
ClosedThe Tropics at Waikiki

Trade Routes

The empires move
Trader Vic'sTrader Vic's at the Habana Hilton — Havana, Cuba closes
Stephen Crane's Kon-Tiki EmpirePorts o' Call — Beverly Hills, CA opens
Stephen Crane's Kon-Tiki EmpirePorts O' Call at the Southland Center — Dallas, TX opens
The Dobbs House LuauDobbs House Luau, Hotel Lafayette — Lexington, KY opens
The Dobbs House LuauDobbs House Luau — Maitland, FL opens