The Aloha Club - Martinez, CA - Vintage Tiki Bar - Women's T-Shirt dude J" in smaller capitals

J" in smaller capitals

Few restaurants ever captured a place and its culture so completely

with white-gloved hands and a red and white drum body

Metal detecting on a beach is just shaking down the ocean for pocket change with forty pounds of equipment and zero dignity

a vintage hand-drawn illustration in distressed white depicts a football referee in a striped uniform and cap

The Aloha Club - Martinez, CA - Vintage Tiki Bar - Women's T-Shirt dude J" in smaller capitalsAloha Club on Ferry Street in Martinez, California, was the kind of tiki bar that transported a small refinery town to the South Pacific. Operating during the mid century tiki craze of the 1950s and 1960s, it promised romance in a rum glass. Places like this gave working people a few hours of paradise without ever leaving town. Part of our Vintage Tiki collection, celebrating the defunct golden era bars of yesteryear. The Details: Red hand lettered