The Chart Room · Year by Year

1980

1 opened · 33 closed

The Long Ebb. Tastes turn. Decade by decade the great rooms close, burn, or get remodeled into oblivion.

Opened

New soundings

OpenedKona Kai (Bethesda Marriott)

Closed

Lights out

ClosedAku Tiki Lounge

ClosedThe Aloha Restaurant

ClosedBeachbum Burt's

ClosedBlue Hawaii at JANAF

ClosedThe Boom Boom Room (Ziegler's Charcoal House)

ClosedThe Castaway

ClosedChin Tiki

ClosedDon the Beachcomber

ClosedDragon Island Restaurant

ClosedDug's West Indies

ClosedGeorge's Surf & Sirloin

ClosedHawaiian Village

ClosedKohala Mauna

ClosedKon-Tiki Room at Tropicana Lanes

ClosedLatitude 20°

ClosedLuau Room

ClosedMauna Loa

ClosedPopo's Coffee Shop & Short Snorter Bar

ClosedSouth Pacific

ClosedSouth Pacific Restaurant

ClosedSouth Seas (Samoan Steak House & Tonga Room)

ClosedThe Tahitian Room at The Plantation

ClosedThe Luau (Dobbs House Luau)

ClosedThe Pearl Diver

ClosedThe Tiki Nook

ClosedTommy Wong's Island

ClosedTrader Frank's

ClosedTrader Ku's

ClosedGeorgie Rudin's Tropics

Trade Routes

The empires move

Don the BeachcomberDon the Beachcomber Corona del Mar — Corona del Mar, CA closes

Don the BeachcomberDon the Beachcomber, Harbor Island — San Diego, CA closes

Don the BeachcomberDon the Beachcomber, Vacation Village — San Diego, CA opens

Stephen Crane's Kon-Tiki EmpirePorts o' Call — Beverly Hills, CA closes

Stephen Crane's Kon-Tiki EmpireKon-Tiki at the Sheraton-Cincinnati — Cincinnati, OH closes

Tallichet's Tropical PortsPieces of Eight — Marina del Rey, CA closes