Hawaiian Room, Baltimore, MD (restaurant) - Locating Tiki

JD Johnny Dollar Tiki Socialite Flyover, Missourah Joined: Oct 01, 2003 Posts: 3159	JD Johnny Dollar Posted posted on Sat, Jul 30, 2011 2:05 PM Name:Hawaiian Room Type:restaurant Street:4 N Calvert St . City:Baltimore State:MD Zip:21202 country:USA Phone: Status:defunct Description: the elusive hawaiian room, in baltimore, maryland. little is documented, but there are many stories and legends... lots of legends, although not all of them square with the facts. evidence from the book "aloha america: hula circuits through the u.s. empire," suggests that there is a direct relationship between the hawaiian room in the hotel lexington in NYC http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=32416&forum=2 and the hawaiian room at the emerson hotel in baltimore: "Te Moana Makolo was part of the last group of Lexington dancers in the early 1960s, becoming the lead choreographer of the show. She, too, had an itinerant career as a professional hula dancer. After the Hawaiian Room closed in 1966, she opened a Hawaiian room at the Emerson Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland, and continued on an overseas USO circuit with the performer Johnny Kaonohi Pineapple in the early 1970s." http://books.google.com/books?id=AgH9xngze1cC&pg=PA207&lpg=PA207&dq=%22te+Moana+Makolo%22&source=bl&ots=1ClAG4ribc&sig=_owqzHg60DseWXL_EjSqfEqGd3k&hl=en&sa=X&ei=UTyeUPHaFI3D0AHH7oG4Aw&ved=0CEAQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false [ Edited by: Johnny Dollar 2012-11-10 03:55 ]

Name:Hawaiian Room
Type:restaurant
Street:4 N Calvert St .
City:Baltimore
State:MD
Zip:21202
country:USA
Phone:
Status:defunct

Description:
the elusive hawaiian room, in baltimore, maryland. little is documented, but there are many stories and legends... lots of legends, although not all of them square with the facts.

evidence from the book "aloha america: hula circuits through the u.s. empire," suggests that there is a direct relationship between the hawaiian room in the hotel lexington in NYC http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=32416&forum=2 and the hawaiian room at the emerson hotel in baltimore: "Te Moana Makolo was part of the last group of Lexington dancers in the early 1960s, becoming the lead choreographer of the show. She, too, had an itinerant career as a professional hula dancer. After the Hawaiian Room closed in 1966, she opened a Hawaiian room at the Emerson Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland, and continued on an overseas USO circuit with the performer Johnny Kaonohi Pineapple in the early 1970s." http://books.google.com/books?id=AgH9xngze1cC&pg=PA207&lpg=PA207&dq=%22te+Moana+Makolo%22&source=bl&ots=1ClAG4ribc&sig=_owqzHg60DseWXL_EjSqfEqGd3k&hl=en&sa=X&ei=UTyeUPHaFI3D0AHH7oG4Aw&ved=0CEAQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false

[ Edited by: Johnny Dollar 2012-11-10 03:55 ]

Post #599982 by Johnny Dollar on Sat, Jul 30, 2011 2:05 PM