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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lunch menu from Willows - Honolulu, HI

Item added on March 18, 2007, 9:40 AM
Latest picture added on March 18, 2007, 10:04 AM

The Willows restaurant is still open today, and is located at 901 Hausten St. in Honolulu. It opened in July of 1944, and remained in business until the early 1990s. It closed for several years, then re-opened with new owners in 1999. A complete history of the Willows can be found on their website here.

This lunch menu is dated Nov. 1st, 1956.

1956 lunch menu, front cover

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1956 lunch menu, inside page

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1956 lunch menu, back cover

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Backroom