Polynesian Inn Restaurant in Albuquerque - Collecting Tiki

G gracelander Member the jungle room Joined: Apr 01, 2009 Posts: 4	G gracelander Posted posted on Sat, Apr 11, 2009 8:12 PM That place was right down the street from my house. There's a Denny's restaurant there now, and it's right next to a highway interchange (Interstate 40), so my guess is the building was torn down when they ran the interstate through town in the 1960s. I found an ad for it under a different name (Trader Horns) in the October 1963 version of the Albuquerque phone book, which I'm posting below. The same phone book has another ad for the Tiki Bird, which I'm also posting below. (Sadly, that place is gone too.) And then there's the famous Tiki-Kai Supper Club featured in the Tiki Modern book (and a couple old editions of Modern Man magazine from the mid-1960s). Also gone, but I found a drink menu in a picnic basket full of random crap at an estate sale a few years back, which is the third image depicted below. I'll keep searching. More info is bound to turn up.

That place was right down the street from my house. There's a Denny's restaurant there now, and it's right next to a highway interchange (Interstate 40), so my guess is the building was torn down when they ran the interstate through town in the 1960s.

I found an ad for it under a different name (Trader Horns) in the October 1963 version of the Albuquerque phone book, which I'm posting below.

The same phone book has another ad for the Tiki Bird, which I'm also posting below. (Sadly, that place is gone too.)

And then there's the famous Tiki-Kai Supper Club featured in the Tiki Modern book (and a couple old editions of Modern Man magazine from the mid-1960s). Also gone, but I found a drink menu in a picnic basket full of random crap at an estate sale a few years back, which is the third image depicted below.

I'll keep searching. More info is bound to turn up.

Post #446436 by gracelander on Sat, Apr 11, 2009 8:12 PM