Aloha Room, Portland, OR (restaurant) - Locating Tiki

D Dustycajun Tiki Socialite Santa Barbara, CA Joined: Nov 16, 2007 Posts: 5295	D Dustycajun Posted posted on Tue, May 25, 2010 5:51 PM Name:Aloha Room Type:restaurant Street:Heathman Hotel -731 Salmon City:Portland State:OR Zip: country:USA Phone: Status:defunct Description: This one is covered on a few different posts but does not have a spot on Locating Tiki so I thought I would start one. The Aloha Room was located in the Heathman Hotel in Portland, Oregon and had a really great mural depicting King Kamehameha at a hukilau with Diamondhead in the backdrop. I have a few postcards of the interior featuring the mural. I really like this Tiki planter, could have doubled as a mega six-person scorpion bowl. Here is a postcard showing the exterior of the hotel in the 1950's I picked up one of the nice feature matchbooks from the Aloha Room There was a Lanai Room which was a combination gift shop/bar. There is also another version of the matchbook with black background. And finally here is a great menu from Mimi Payne's website from the Aloha Room. Uses the same Drummer/Hawaiian Maiden motif as the matchbook. So this is where the graphics of the Scorpion Bowl and Missionary's Downfall shown in the Book of Tiki come from, I had always wondered about those and figured they were table drink cards. Some other cool drink graphics on the menu as well. DC

Name:Aloha Room
Type:restaurant
Street:Heathman Hotel -731 Salmon
City:Portland
State:OR
Zip:
country:USA
Phone:
Status:defunct

Description:
This one is covered on a few different posts but does not have a spot on Locating Tiki so I thought I would start one. The Aloha Room was located in the Heathman Hotel in Portland, Oregon and had a really great mural depicting King Kamehameha at a hukilau with Diamondhead in the backdrop. I have a few postcards of the interior featuring the mural.

I really like this Tiki planter, could have doubled as a mega six-person scorpion bowl.

Here is a postcard showing the exterior of the hotel in the 1950's

I picked up one of the nice feature matchbooks from the Aloha Room

There was a Lanai Room which was a combination gift shop/bar.

There is also another version of the matchbook with black background.

And finally here is a great menu from Mimi Payne's website from the Aloha Room. Uses the same Drummer/Hawaiian Maiden motif as the matchbook.

So this is where the graphics of the Scorpion Bowl and Missionary's Downfall shown in the Book of Tiki come from, I had always wondered about those and figured they were table drink cards. Some other cool drink graphics on the menu as well.

Post #532231 by Dustycajun on Tue, May 25, 2010 5:51 PM