“Hawaiian Eye” was a television series that ran from 1959 – 1963, and starred Robert Conrad and Anthony Eisley as crime fighting detectives in Honolulu, Hawaii.

The detectives hung out at the Shell Bar, where at least once an episode that ran into “Cricket,” a singer and photographer at the bar played by Connie Stevens.  The bar was located at the Hawaiian Village Hotel, where the guys were house detectives and also had an office.  Some viewers would swear that the guys spent more time with the sassy Cricket than they did with any crooks.

While most of the television show was shot on the Warner Brothers lot in Los Angeles, the Shell Bar was a real place — then, and now. 

The Hilton Hawaiian Village, on Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, is home to the real Shell Bar, and provided the basis for the show’s bar.  You can still have a drink or two and listen to some music, but Cricket is nowhere to be seen.

Photo credit:  personal collection

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