Post #444281 by Humuhumu on Wed, Apr 1, 2009 11:01 PM

So, first off, I've added this place to Critiki:

The Beachcomber, Vancouver

But as I was entering it, I had one of those waitaminnit things happen... the address of this place is the exact same address as another location already in Critiki, the Hawaiian Village:

The Hawaiian Village, Vancouver

But they have more than just the address in common... compare the menu from Hawaiian Village to one from another Beachcomber location, the one in Winnipeg:

That's definitely our old friend, the Beachcomber tiki, on both of those menus. Even the lettering for both names looks nearly identical. The menus are from puamana's collection, and she's dated both of them to circa 1960s.

Tiki Wahine has a number of Hawaiian Village mugs in her collection, which I've always understood to be from that Hawaiian Village in Vancouver. Now I'm thinking I've had it confused, that the mugs came from a restaurant in the Vancouver area, but actually in New Westminster (a location that is currently missing from Critiki). What would the connection have been, if any, between the New Westminster Hawaiian Village and this possibly-brief life of Vancouver-Beachcomber-as-Hawaiian-Village?

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