Christian's Hut, Multiple Locations, CA (restaurant) - Locating Tiki

PR Phillip Roberts Tiki Socialite OAHU/Seattle Joined: Sep 09, 2003 Posts: 1703	PR Phillip Roberts Posted posted on Mon, Apr 16, 2012 11:46 PM Aloha, I think I've managed to tie the Hawaii connection together. Somewhat, maybe, well not all yet but... DC wrote... Great TIP! Looks like it opened in 1957 and that Fred MacMurray and John Wayne had some money invested in it with Art LaShelle I promised and I did go to the library (and while I forgot a zip drive that day I read that...) July 1957 Star Bulletin reports Grand opening of Christian's Hut by Art... He's purchased the Kewalo Inn, and after a facelift of the interior was the grand opening complete with a lounge just like the ones in California... $10,000 spent in remodel... AND the Goof atop the building... Reports the paper. So picture this place with the goof atop. The Kewalo Inn / Fisherman's Wharf. Hawaii's Oldest Historic Waterfront Restaurant I don't know when the place closed (yet) and became the Fisherman's Grotto... I do know The Grotto was a Spencecliff operation and the large anchor was moved from Trader Vic's Ward to Kewalo after the sale in 1967. In Waikiki Tiki, about five or pages before the Ceramics section is a photograph labeled "A Coconut tree carving located near the Chinese Graveyard in Pahoa Valley. It actually overlooks the Graveyard (Btw). Could this be the missing Goof of Honolulu?

Aloha,

I think I've managed to tie the Hawaii connection together. Somewhat, maybe, well not all yet but...

DC wrote... Great TIP!

Looks like it opened in 1957 and that Fred MacMurray and John Wayne had some money invested in it with Art LaShelle

I promised and I did go to the library (and while I forgot a zip drive that day I read that...)

July 1957 Star Bulletin reports Grand opening of Christian's Hut by Art... He's purchased the Kewalo Inn, and after a facelift of the interior was the grand opening complete with a lounge just like the ones in California... $10,000 spent in remodel...

AND the Goof atop the building...

Reports the paper.

So picture this place with the goof atop.

The Kewalo Inn / Fisherman's Wharf. Hawaii's Oldest Historic Waterfront Restaurant

I don't know when the place closed (yet) and became the Fisherman's Grotto... I do know The Grotto was a Spencecliff operation and the large anchor was moved from Trader Vic's Ward to Kewalo after the sale in 1967.

In Waikiki Tiki, about five or pages before the Ceramics section is a photograph labeled "A Coconut tree carving located near the Chinese Graveyard in Pahoa Valley. It actually overlooks the Graveyard (Btw). Could this be the missing Goof of Honolulu?

Post #632655 by Phillip Roberts on Mon, Apr 16, 2012 11:46 PM