Blue Hawaii, Bethesda, MD (restaurant) - Locating Tiki

JD Johnny Dollar Tiki Socialite Flyover, Missourah Joined: Oct 01, 2003 Posts: 3159	JD Johnny Dollar Posted posted on Wed, Feb 1, 2017 9:40 AM ok, here is another thread of info: Blue Hawaii was at this address in the 1970s (will focus in more on dates in a bit) - no extant photo of exterior. At some point, Blue Hawaii became Tiki Hawaii, a Korean BBQ joint... my guess is the exterior was very like this for Blue Hawaii? this photo is dated 1983, and was provided courtesy of Daphne Plaut via a Facebook local history group. Then in the 1990s (?) the location became a thai restaurant, Bangkok Garden. This is the storefront that I have seen, and I always assumed that those A-frame roof parts were part of Blue Hawaii, but they weren't there for Tiki Hawaii - weird??? sadly, this storefront has now been redone and the storefront has very little character.

ok, here is another thread of info:

Blue Hawaii was at this address in the 1970s (will focus in more on dates in a bit) - no extant photo of exterior.

At some point, Blue Hawaii became Tiki Hawaii, a Korean BBQ joint... my guess is the exterior was very like this for Blue Hawaii?

this photo is dated 1983, and was provided courtesy of Daphne Plaut via a Facebook local history group.

Then in the 1990s (?) the location became a thai restaurant, Bangkok Garden. This is the storefront that I have seen, and I always assumed that those A-frame roof parts were part of Blue Hawaii, but they weren't there for Tiki Hawaii - weird???

sadly, this storefront has now been redone and the storefront has very little character.

Post #772604 by Johnny Dollar on Wed, Feb 1, 2017 9:40 AM