A Legitimate Counterfeit (Post Your Leroy Art Here!) - Tiki Carving

AA Aaron's Akua Member Rancho Santa Margarita, CA Joined: Jul 09, 2004 Posts: 1596	AA Aaron's Akua Posted posted on Mon, Dec 6, 2004 3:09 PM I did a little more Leroy investigation on my lunch break today. Here’s the reincarnation of the “Tiki Bar” in Costa Mesa, now known as “Rain”. The Leroy tiki, obviously, is no longer there. If this place was a "dive" before, it's definitely gone downhill since! Following another lead, I paid a visit to a cool cat named K.C. Heylin, proprieter of “Beachdude Inc.” who lives & works in Newport Beach on the Balboa Penninsula. He used to sell mostly Hawaiiana, but now sells a really nice line of Tiki t-shirts, stickers, clothing, etc., called “Tikiheads” on the internet. You can check out his website at http://www.beachdudeinc.com. When I mentioned the "Leroy" Tiki, K.C. knew exactly what I was talking about, but not where it went. Instead, he steered me to another local “serious tikihead” known as “Sarko” who owns a local metal refinishing business, and apparently has a really awesome tiki bar on-site. K.C. thinks this guy might know where our infamous tiki landed. Still hot on the trail, but I’ll have to save Sarko for another lunchtime excursion. "Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness." -Pablo Picasso [ Edited by: Aaron's Akua on 2004-12-06 16:49 ]

I did a little more Leroy investigation on my lunch break today. Here’s the reincarnation of the “Tiki Bar” in Costa Mesa, now known as “Rain”. The Leroy tiki, obviously, is no longer there. If this place was a "dive" before, it's definitely gone downhill since!

Following another lead, I paid a visit to a cool cat named K.C. Heylin, proprieter of “Beachdude Inc.” who lives & works in Newport Beach on the Balboa Penninsula.
He used to sell mostly Hawaiiana, but now sells a really nice line of Tiki t-shirts, stickers, clothing, etc., called “Tikiheads” on the internet. You can check out his website at http://www.beachdudeinc.com.

When I mentioned the "Leroy" Tiki, K.C. knew exactly what I was talking about, but not where it went. Instead, he steered me to another local “serious tikihead” known as “Sarko” who owns a local metal refinishing business, and apparently has a really awesome tiki bar on-site. K.C. thinks this guy might know where our infamous tiki landed. Still hot on the trail, but I’ll have to save Sarko for another lunchtime excursion.

"Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness."
-Pablo Picasso

[ Edited by: Aaron's Akua on 2004-12-06 16:49 ]

Post #129342 by Aaron's Akua on Mon, Dec 6, 2004 3:09 PM