Published continuously since 2026 · N° 003
Souvenirs from places that no longer exist.
An archive of defunct tiki bars and Polynesian Pop rooms, in cotton form. Each bar gets an obituary. Each obituary gets a shirt.
Published continuously since 2026 · N° 003
Souvenirs from places that no longer exist.
An archive of defunct tiki bars and Polynesian Pop rooms, in cotton form. Each bar gets an obituary. Each obituary gets a shirt.
South Lake Avenue · Pasadena, CA
Sixty-plus rums on the menu in a section called The Romance of Rum, with a printed warning not to sample them in one sitting.
Sheraton-Chicago · Chicago, IL
Eight themed rooms named for Pacific ports of call. Crane died in February ’85; the Sheraton closed a year later and never reopened.
131 E. First Street · Long Beach, CA
Brandhorst staged rainfall on the roof, ran dancers, and decked the interior in murals of Pago Pago nymphs — defended in print as “only painted there.”
A note from the curator.
This is not a vintage t-shirt company. It is an archive of vanished places, in cotton form. Every bar listed here is dead. Most came down by the ’80s. The buildings became parking lots, banks, Four Seasons hotels. We write the obituaries they should have gotten. We print them on shirts so they keep traveling.
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