Post #758940 by HopeChest on Wed, Feb 10, 2016 4:19 PM

This is the kind of stuff that's fascinating for me but nap-inducing for most others, so apologies if it's the latter for you.

PART 1 -

I was very intrigued by this comment I came across from an old eBay auction for this same menu:

I will be listing a total of 13 Vintage menu's from trips my family took in 1949 and early 1960's.

http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/san-francisco-vintage-waikiki-24540850

...and wondered if the Waikiki could possibly be as old as the 1940s. From the Nevada State Journal, dated Sunday June 13, 1943:

"McKeage also issued a probationary' suspension order against the Marine Fish and Oyster Grotto, 2741 Taylor Street, San Francisco."

https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/75077995/

Sometime in the mid- to late 1940s it changed to the Hi-Tide Fish Grotto:

*HI-TIDE FISH GROTTO

On Famous Fisherman's Wharf

2741 TAYLOR STREET

Telephone TUxedo 5-9946*

http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/pacific-publication-company/san-francisco-city-county-record-volume-v13-1946---v15-1948-fna/page-171-san-francisco-city-county-record-volume-v13-1946---v15-1948-fna.shtml

...and from the Police and Peace Officers Journal of the State of California, Jan. 1951 - Dec. 1951:

HI-TIDE FISH GROTTO ON THE FAMOUS FISHERMAN’S WHARF 2741 Taylor Street TUxedo 5-9946 SAN FRANCISCO

http://www.mocavo.com/Police-and-Peace-Officers-Journal-of-the-State-of-California-Jan-1951-Dec-1951-Volume-Jan-1951-Dec-1951/311937/492

The last mention I could find for Hi-Tide was 1954, and I can find no specific reference to another business (aside from the Waikiki) at 2741 Taylor Street after that either.