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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dinner menu from Tahiti - Santa Monica, CA

Item added on September 26, 2009, 5:06 PM
Latest picture added on September 26, 2009, 5:08 PM

Tahiti was located at 327 Broadway in Santa Monica. This 1949 menu cover borrows from the imagery of a 1940's Matson Cruise Line brochure.

More history & imagery on the Tahiti can be found on Tiki Central here

1949 souvenir dinner menu, front cover

Tags: California, copycat graphics, illustration, menu, Polynesian

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