Coco's Coffee House, Waikiki, HI (restaurant) - Locating Tiki

A aquarj Tiki Socialite SF bay area, CA Joined: Apr 02, 2002 Posts: 1125	A aquarj Posted posted on Thu, Feb 24, 2011 2:09 PM Here's an earlier shot of Coco's, fwiw, juxtaposed with DC's image posted above... On 2011-02-16 12:30, Dustycajun wrote: And here's an old photo of the Kau Kau Korner that preceded Coco's on the same spot, and actually provided the structure that was reused by Coco's. :down: Also, with this talk of the Spencecliff restaurants and Tops, here's an old ad for Tops. :down: BTW, if you look very closely in the beginning of the Elvis flick Blue Hawaii from 1961, there's a scene where Elvis' ("Chad's") girlfriend Maile (Joan Blackman) is driving to pick him up at the airport, and she goes right by Tops. It's like two frames though, but you can also make out the Kaiser aluminum dome at the Hawaiian Village, and the Waikikian should be right there but it's too hard to detect. -Randy

Here's an earlier shot of Coco's, fwiw, juxtaposed with DC's image posted above...

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

And here's an old photo of the Kau Kau Korner that preceded Coco's on the same spot, and actually provided the structure that was reused by Coco's. :down:

Also, with this talk of the Spencecliff restaurants and Tops, here's an old ad for Tops. :down:

BTW, if you look very closely in the beginning of the Elvis flick Blue Hawaii from 1961, there's a scene where Elvis' ("Chad's") girlfriend Maile (Joan Blackman) is driving to pick him up at the airport, and she goes right by Tops. It's like two frames though, but you can also make out the Kaiser aluminum dome at the Hawaiian Village, and the Waikikian should be right there but it's too hard to detect.

-Randy

Post #577610 by aquarj on Thu, Feb 24, 2011 2:09 PM