Post #609266 by Sabu The Coconut Boy on Thu, Oct 6, 2011 2:06 PM

There's an old thread for this location in General Tiki:

http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=10816&forum=1

... but since every picture link is dead, I thought it would be wiser to start a new thread here in Locating Tiki and hopefully get folks to re-post their photos here.

ZuluMagoo has a great series of blog posts on the history of the Denver Outrigger and it's relationship to Don The Beachcomber's chain in his blog:

http://tikiarchitecture.blogspot.com/2010/11/trader-vics-vs-don-beachcomber-in.html

http://tikiarchitecture.blogspot.com/2010/12/trader-vics-vs-don-beachcomber-in.html

http://tikiarchitecture.blogspot.com/2010/12/trader-vics-vs-don-beachcomber-in_06.html

http://tikiarchitecture.blogspot.com/2010/12/trader-vics-vs-don-beachcomber-in_08.html

http://tikiarchitecture.blogspot.com/2010/12/trader-vics-vs-don-beachcomber-in_09.html

http://tikiarchitecture.blogspot.com/2010/12/trader-vics-vs-don-beachcomber-in_10.html

http://tikiarchitecture.blogspot.com/2010/12/trader-vics-vs-don-beachcomber-in_13.html

... although my research indicates the Outrigger opened in 1954, just prior to the Beverly Hills location, instead of the 1962 date in the blog.

Puamana has some nice scans of an early brochure on her Arkiva Tropika website:

http://www.arkivatropika.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?item_id=49

I also recently found these two photos from a 1956 University of Boulder yearbook:

:up: Note the walrus skulls on the wall, (the walrus roamed the Rocky Mountains in vast herds during the 1950s)

:down: Here's an ad from 1956:

...and finally, a few more pictures posted elsewhere on TC:

Here's the old entrance at the Cosmopolitan Hotel, after it became Don The Beachcomber's (photo from 1982):

Please add your photos and information if you've got them.

[ Edited by: Sabu The Coconut Boy 2011-10-06 14:44 ]

[ Edited by: Sabu The Coconut Boy 2011-10-06 16:49 ]