The Outrigger - Monterey, CA - Vintage Tiki Bar - Unisex Sweatshirt tucson with a decorative pineapple accent

with a decorative pineapple accent positioned to the right

with a single cartoon eye

Flying’s not so bad… unless you’re the only one who sees the thing on the wing

when these themed establishments offered middle-class Americans a taste of South Pacific romance without leaving their own neighborhoods

The Outrigger - Monterey, CA - Vintage Tiki Bar - Unisex Sweatshirt tucson with a decorative pineapple accentThe 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