Post #800637 by HotelCharlieEcho on Wed, Feb 12, 2020 5:03 PM

While digging around for information about this place again, I realized there are some shots from the video King B posted where you can see the Hawaiian location across the street (a few years before it became the Hawaiian). Bigbro was speculating earlier in this thread on whether the building had been something non-Polynesian before the Hawaiian came along - if you look closely you can see the name Golden Drumstick over the marquee. Golden Drumstick was a chain of fried chicken restaurants, most well known for their locations in Arizona along Route 66.

Here's a screen grab showing the exterior (note the square marquee that the Hawaiian kept):

Page 8 of Councilman Daryl Supernaw's newsletter from March 30, 2018, includes a reference to the transition from the Golden Drumstick to The Hawaiian and a couple of other good exterior photos before The Hawaiian took over: http://www.longbeach.gov/globalassets/district-4/media-library/documents/newsletters/2018/march-30-2018

[ Edited by: HotelCharlieEcho 2020-02-12 17:12 ]