Post #126372 by tikijackalope on Fri, Nov 19, 2004 4:00 AM

bdler3 wrote:

I finally found a picture of the lamp in the room with all the fish tanks. this lamp was over a round table.

Does this imply that you have a photo archive of the Kahiki? Oddly, there are rather few pics of it's interior here on TC. The Book of Tiki and Tiki Road Trip have some, but if you've got pics of various nooks and crannies, I know they'd be of interest here. The place to post them would be:
http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=4854&forum=2

I would be interested in more info on the place in springfield mo

It was called Aloha; it closed this past summer after only a year in business. It was no Kahiki...more like an East coast Chinese/tiki place with way more than the usual amount of tiki masks and lamps, but it was a good try and there were no other tiki eating or drinking establishments in any direction for hundreds of miles. Sadly, there still aren't.
http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=7127&forum=2&11it
I bought nearly all the lights and decor.
http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=1099&forum=5&vpost=101324
Strangely enough, the manager told me that some of Aloha's stuff came from the Kahiki. Believing this to be a tactic, I asked him how that could be. He replied that his family (large midwestern Cantonese family) knew the family that owned the Kahiki and had gotten some things from them. The timing was right - Aloha opened after Kahiki closed - but I dismissed his story because from what I knew of the Kahiki, none of this stuff, except maybe the lamps, would have been worthy. Some months later I emailed Mr Tsao and asked if he remembered sending anything to Springfield; he didn't.