Tropics Lounge, Wichita, KS (bar) - Locating Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Tue, Nov 2, 2004 3:34 PM Great example of a selfmade Polynesia Americana. The painting is cool, it shows how Tiki was the thing to do for the casual and hip back then. The Tikis, styrofoam and Witco, are definetely vintage. Most interesting to me are the painted masks and shield on the front, they must have just repainted the original designs. These are in the same style than the Kon Tiki Hotel Phoenix (BOT p.118) sign and wall decor, a style which ALSO (as mentioned before) appears in the 1967 Jerry Lewis film "The Big Mouth" on the grounds of Del Webb's Ocean House (last known as the Mission Bay Hilton) in San Diego. Does anybody have any good shots of the Phoenix Kon Tiki Hotel entrance walls with all the masks and shields? I am dying to find out who that artist was...

Great example of a selfmade Polynesia Americana. The painting is cool, it shows how Tiki was the thing to do for the casual and hip back then. The Tikis, styrofoam and Witco, are definetely vintage.

Most interesting to me are the painted masks and shield on the front, they must have just repainted the original designs.
These are in the same style than the Kon Tiki Hotel Phoenix (BOT p.118) sign and wall decor, a style which ALSO (as mentioned before) appears in the 1967 Jerry Lewis film "The Big Mouth" on the grounds of Del Webb's Ocean House (last known as the Mission Bay Hilton) in San Diego.

Does anybody have any good shots of the Phoenix Kon Tiki Hotel entrance walls with all the masks and shields? I am dying to find out who that artist was...

Post #123159 by bigbrotiki on Tue, Nov 2, 2004 3:34 PM