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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cocktail menu from Lanai Room, La Playa Hotel - Carmel, CA

Item added on December 23, 2010, 5:49 AM
Latest picture added on December 23, 2010, 5:51 AM

Originally built in 1905 as private home, the La Playa Hotel was converted to a hotel in 1916. This cocktail menu from the Lanai Room dates from around the 1950's.

1950's cocktail menu, front cover

Tags: California, illustration, menu

1950's cocktail menu, inside page

Tags: California, menu, written description

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