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 Kona Kai Club - San Diego, CA

Item added on December 20, 2009, 4:44 PM
Latest picture added on December 20, 2009, 4:45 PM

The Kona Kai Club (now called the Kona Kai Resort) has been open since 1953, and is located at 1551 Shelter Island Drive in San Diego. More history on the Kona Kai Club/Resort can be found on Critiki, here.

This 1958 dinner menu uses the same artwork created for the the Matson Cruise Line by Frank Macintosh.

1958 dinner menu, front cover

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

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