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Christian's Hut was a tiki bar located in Newport Beach, California. It opened in 1935 and closed in 1963.

Operating on the naughtier side of the palm tree, the Tahiti Bar opened in Philadelphia in 1958.

The Hawaiian Cottage was a popular tiki bar and restaurant located in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. It opened in 1938 and welcomed visitors from all over the Northeast until a fire destroyed the building in 1978.

The Tiny Hut tiki bar was a restaurant located in Walnut Hills, California. It was in operation in the 1940s and 1950s.

Robert and?? Peggy Judge opened Judges', Beyond the Reef in Brookfield, Wisconsin in 1964. The couple added an A-frame entrance to the original log cabin building and some full-sized plastic palm trees out front that could handle a midwestern winter and thus created a...

Sam's Sea Food and Hawaiian Village opened on the??Pacific Coast Highway in the Sunset Beach area of Los Angeles in 1923. It was started as a bait and tackle shop in nearby Seal Beach, it morphed into a tiki bar and moved up the...

Billed as "delightfully different," the Zombie Hut opened in Sacramento in 1945. Though it changed hands a few times, it remained open until 1990. The restaurant's former location is now the site of a strip mall.

The Makai Room was part of a bowling alley in Mar Vista, California. It opened in 1961. Today, the bowling alley lives on under a different name, with the last tiki-inspired touches having been removed in the late 1970s.

Trader Dick's was a tiki bar located inside a casino in Sparks, Nevada, just outside of Reno. It opened in 1958 and closed in 2014. The spot became Gilley's for a few years, but that has now also closed.

The Islands was a Polynesian bar and restaurant in Phoenix that operated from 1958 through the '70s.??

The Hawaiian was a tiki bar and restaurant in Salt Lake City.

Darby Downs was located in Grove City and opened in 1923 as Beulah Park. In 1984, the name was changed to Darby Downs. In 1986, the name was changed back. The track ran its final race in 2014.

Australia's Wonderland opened on December 7, 1985, as the sixth member of the Kings Entertainment amusement park family. At 219 acres, it was the largest amusement park in the Southern Hemisphere. The park's design was based mostly on Canada's Wonderland. It was also a...

Australia???s Wonderland opened on December 7, 1985, as the sixth member of the Kings Entertainment amusement park family. The park???s design was based mostly on Canada???s Wonderland. Indeed, it's signature coaster The Bush Beast was a replica of Canada's Wild Beast. Both rides were...

In 1976, America's largest fast food chain introduced the character of Phil A. O'Fish to help sell their fish sandwiches. In recent years it has become the opposite of an urban legend with many asserting Phil A. O'Fish never existed. He did, but he...

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