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.

Mimi can be contacted at aloha@
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souvenir menu from Blue Lagoon - Lake Loreen, Newberry, CA

Item added on September 28, 2009, 8:08 AM
Latest picture added on September 28, 2009, 8:09 AM

The Blue Lagoon Restaurant was located at Lake Loreen, in Newberry, CA. It was in business from the 1960's until about 1972. A 3-page article on the history on Lake Loreen can be found here:

Lake Loreen article in 1985 LA Times

1960's souvenir menu, front cover

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