Trader Vic's, Oakland, CA (restaurant) - Locating Tiki

H Hakalugi Special Tiki Central Agent Redondo Beach, CA Joined: Aug 10, 2004 Posts: 3465	H Hakalugi Posted posted on Thu, Jun 30, 2016 9:50 PM On 2016-06-30 21:22, Polly_Nesia wrote: Great history thread on the place. Hey I was looking at photos from customer posts on yelp for the Emeryville location (great way to see a lot more of tiki restaurant/bars still out there) and came upon this photo posted by Eugene L.: http://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/trader-vics-emeryville?select=n7_DJnn9knDazeTs74w90A&userid=Lr-B-r-KF80yFy-2u336bw Very cool door panels that were reused here (in a kind of tacky way but at least preserved). Were these from the original Oakland location by any chance? It is speculated that those doors are from the 20 Cosmo Place, San Francisco location: http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?mode=viewtopic&topic=30113&forum=2&start=15

On 2016-06-30 21:22, Polly_Nesia wrote:
Great history thread on the place.

Hey I was looking at photos from customer posts on yelp for the Emeryville location (great way to see a lot more of tiki restaurant/bars still out there) and came upon this photo posted by Eugene L.: http://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/trader-vics-emeryville?select=n7_DJnn9knDazeTs74w90A&userid=Lr-B-r-KF80yFy-2u336bw Very cool door panels that were reused here (in a kind of tacky way but at least preserved). Were these from the original Oakland location by any chance?

It is speculated that those doors are from the 20 Cosmo Place, San Francisco location:
http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?mode=viewtopic&topic=30113&forum=2&start=15

Post #765678 by Hakalugi on Thu, Jun 30, 2016 9:50 PM