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McMenamins Elks Temple – Tacoma WA

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I will always remember driving to New York City from Pennsylvania, the first thing you would see was the twin towers of The World Trade Center. Those towers were tall! I wonder if it was just me, but there was always this weird optical illusion with the twin towers, the further away you were from them, the larger they appeared!

But when you were Downtown, near the WTC, they didn’t seem nearly so big.

The McMenamins Elks Temple in Tacoma Washington doesn’t look that big from the outside, but you have no idea just how huge this place is until you step inside …

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Dark Manor Inn – Vancouver B.C. by Jason Craig

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Dark Manor Inn Vancouver B.C.

Rod Moore gave us his vision of what a Tiki bar should be with The Shameful Tiki Room in Vancouver BC Canada in 2013, and he created a second Shameful Tiki in Toronto ON Canada in 2015. You’d think that’d be enough, but Rod had another vision in mind … A Haunted Mansion Whiskey Bar in Vancouver BC called the Dark Manor Inn …

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The Pau Hana Lounge (On the Hiyu) – A Tiki Bar That Is On A Boat, Seattle WA

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Pau Hana Lounge Hiyu

Nautical artifacts are commonly found in a tiki bar, but what about if a tiki bar is on a boat? This is The Pau Hana Lounge. It’s a tiki bar that was built inside one of the passenger decks of “On the Hiyu”. On the Hiyu is a restored ferryboat from 1967 that Jeff Wilson and David Crellin restored and repurposed into a floating arts and entertainment venue. David Crellin invited me on board to show me around. We sat down in the Pau Hana Lounge, sipped some rum, and talked …

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