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Tiki Central / Locating Tiki / Blue Hawaii, Bethesda, MD (restaurant)

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

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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.