The Chart Room · Year by Year

2021

6 opened · 2 closed · 2 milestones

The Revival. The craft-cocktail generation rediscovers the canon. New temples rise; the tide comes back in.

On This Year’s Chart

Dated milestones

February 11Bill Sapp, who built the Kahiki with Lee Henry, dies in Columbus at 92

May 4Patricia “Piano Pat” Sponheim dies at 86 — she had played the Sip ’n Dip Lounge in Great Falls, Montana, since 1963, fifty-six years at one piano behind a window into a motel swimming pool

Opened

New soundings

Still pouringDr. Funk

Still pouringHugman's Oasis

Still pouringInside Passage

Still pouringSunken Harbor Club

Still pouringTiki Tatsu-Ya

Still pouringWilfred's Lounge

Closed

Lights out

ClosedLotus Garden

ClosedTiki Tolteca

Trade Routes

The empires move

Trader Vic'sTrader Vic's Outpost, SJC — San Jose, CA opens