The Outrigger - Monterey, CA - Vintage Tiki Bar - Long Sleeve T-Shirt fresno bared white teeth

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" Light blue serif small-caps text at the bottom reads "HILL VALLEY PRESERVATION SOCIETY

Places like this turned a stretch of coast highway into an escape route to another world entirely

complete with the authentic nautical spirit that only a coastal tiki bar could provide

26th at Collins" and "Miami Beach

The Outrigger - Monterey, CA - Vintage Tiki Bar - Long Sleeve T-Shirt fresno bared white teethThe Outrigger opened its bamboo doors in Monterey during the late 1950s, riding the wave of America's post war Polynesian obsession that transformed California's coastal cities into tropical escapes. This legendary tiki sanctuary on the Monterey Peninsula became a cultural landmark where locals and tourists alike gathered under carved wooden totems and glowing pufferfish lamps, sipping mai tais while the Pacific Ocean crashed just beyond the palm