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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matchcover from Pago Pago - Long Beach, CA

Item added on November 28, 2006, 6:56 AM
Latest picture added on November 28, 2006, 7:04 AM

Eddie's Pago Pago was located at 131 E. First St. in Long Beach. On the back of this matchcover (and also their postcard) the slogan "It rains at Pago Pago", suggests the club incorporated the idea of simulated indoor tropical rainstorms.

1950's matchcover

Tags: bamboo lettering, California, illustration, matchcover, palm trees, Polynesian

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