Arkiva Tropika is the online archive of the collection of Mimi Payne. This large collection includes a wide array of mostly pre-1970 menus, postcards, matchbooks, and paper ephemera souvenir items, mainly from Polynesian and other Exotic themed restaurants, hotels, nightclubs, bars, and the like.

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table card from El Panama Hotel - Panama City, Panama

Item added on January 22, 2008, 8:33 AM
Latest picture added on June 9, 2009, 3:30 PM

The El Panama Hotel, built in 1946, was designed by American architect Edward Durell Stone. The El Panama was one of the first hotels to incorporate cantilevered balconies into the construction of the resort. The hotel is still in business today.

This table card dates from 1956, advertising their Cabana Club Cooler.

1956 table card, Typhoon Tilly

Tags: cocktail, hotel, illustration, Panama, table card

1956 table card, Cabana Club Cooler

Tags: cocktail, hotel, illustration, Panama, table card

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