Post #478005 by Trad'r Bill on Tue, Aug 18, 2009 9:50 PM

Name:Trader Vic's
Type:restaurant
Street:6500 San Pablo Avenue
City:Oakland
State:CA
Zip:
country:USA
Phone:
Status:defunct

Description:
This is the original Trader Vic's restaurant, formerly "Hinky Dink's" which was founded by Victor Jules Bergeron in 1934. After a trip to Southern California, "Trader Vic" Bergeron decided to change the decor and name of his restaurant:
"We went to a place called the South Seas that doesn't exist anymore and even visited Don the Beachcomber in Hollywood. In fact, I even bought some stuff from Don the Beachcomber. When I got back to Oakland and told my wife about what I had seen, we agreed to change the name of our restaurant and change the decor. We decided that Hinky Dinks was a junky name and that the place should be named after someone we could tell a story about. My wife suggested Trader Vic's because I was always making a trade with someone. Fine, I became Trader Vic."

[ Edited by: Trad'r Bill 2009-08-18 22:07 ]