Post #342069 by Lapu-Lapu on Sun, Nov 4, 2007 11:07 PM

The Worcester Aku-Aku was a Vallee's Steakhouse throughout the 1960's and 1970's.

The Worcester Wind-Tiki (Park Avenue) is now Sakura Tokyo (it has seen better days). My old classic rock band, The RefleXion, was one of the first groups to perform there when it opened in 1990 or 1991.

Lotsa memories from the ol' Wind Tiki:
The day my oldest daughter was born (1984) I went there for celebratory House Special Mai-Tai's.
I remember I got an old ten-dollar "silver certificate" back with my change (I think I may still have it).
All of their waitresses and bartenders were middle-aged white women (common with old school Polynesian joints, I believe).
One month later, my daughter's first outing was at the Wind-Tiki for day-after-Thanksgiving Pu-Pu Platters and Gai Poo Lo Mein with my wife and I and our small brood of T-Day visiting out-of-towners; as she slept peacefully in her car seat atop the back of our huge, semi-circular corner booth. We always took out-of-towners to either the WT or Chuck's Steakhouse, in Auburn, MA.
The only consolation when the WT closed was that Sakura Tokyo was supposed to be awesome. It was... for a few years, but it is in desperate need of a facelift; in and out.

The Golden Lion in Auburn, MA was another cool Tiki/Chinese bar, but more "biker-ish" and scary. Huge $5.00 Scorpion-Bowls-for-Two, though. They closed in 1998, or so, and it is now another damn credit union. I have two of their blue sparkle-flake tuck-and-roll vinyl roller lounge chairs in my cellar.

[ Edited by: Lapu-Lapu 2007-11-04 23:08 ]