Post #502458 by Johnny Dollar on Tue, Jan 5, 2010 12:06 PM

more clues to the hula hut have come to light in 2009!

there are plenty message boards and blogs about retail, old malls, grocery stores, etc... well this particular one had the following exchange in june 2009:

Joe
June 9th, 2009 at 5:38 pm

Does anyone remember the name of the polynesian restaurant at Reedie and Georgia (I think)? It had slanting bamboo torches out front.

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AJ
June 10th, 2009 at 5:48 pm

I believe that resturant was the Hula Hut.
Before that there used to be three businesses there. The Wheaton Tavern, A pool hall, and many different transient occupants in the other.

link: http://www.labelscar.com/maryland/westfield-wheaton-plaza

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Reedie+and+Georgia,+wheaton,+maryland&sll=39.360449,-76.647449&sspn=0.014666,0.023324&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Georgia+Ave+%26+Reedie+Dr,+Silver+Spring,+Montgomery,+Maryland+20902&t=h&z=17

another facebook post http://hi-in.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=35718166692&topic=5511&post=49334 locates the hula hut as over the wheaton rental center on reedie drive:

William Robert Wall wrote on December 22, 2009 at 3:36 pm
Worked at Wheaton Rental Center (WRC) from '73-'76 - when it used to be on Reedie Drive, across the street from Dunkin Donuts, and under the Hula Hut.

i contacted mr. wall, and he said that the hula hut was on the sw corner of the intersection (location of the wheaton metro station). he recalls that the hula hut opened in the mid 1960s, and was closed by the time the metro station was built (opened 1990).

[ Edited by: Johnny Dollar 2010-01-06 08:19 ]