Post #576833 by Phillip Roberts on Sat, Feb 19, 2011 2:49 PM

On 2011-02-16 12:30, Dustycajun wrote:

I decided to put together a post for the Coco's Coffee House that was located in Waikiki given the recent interest in Hawaiian Tiki generated by Phillip Roberts great new book - Waikiki Tiki.

Thanks DC. I didn't spend much time on Coco's in Waikiki Tiki.

Here's some additional notes:

*It was run by the Spencecliff Corporation.

*While you can't tell in the photos and graphics, the building was painted pink.

There was a crusty guy was selling re-prints of his 60's snapshots at one of the frequent collector shows here. They were expensively priced and Coco's was the only one I considered getting, but passed.

Harry B. Soria of the Territorial Airwaves radio program told me a story about when they were tearing down Coco's. He was watching and as they did it, the Kau-Kau Corner structure appeared. They had simply built the new building around the old one.