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bigbrotiki
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Tiki Island, above the Silverlake
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On 2002-11-13 21:11, GECKO TIKI wrote:
ok this is the last pic for today. These rare lamps were used in the rooms of the old Waikikian hotel. That is the hotel that the Tahitian Lanai was at.
Gecko, there is a used furniture store in Hilo that has some of the Waikikian's desks left that have the A-frame lobby carved into them. Some are waterdamaged and thus affordable. She also might still have some of the Ku lamps from the rooms. I think my pal Dug Miller bought almost all of the shoji screen door tiki mask cut outs last time he was there, though. Can't remember name and address, but there can't be too many used furniture stores in Hilo...
My holy grail is this full size idealized painting of the lobby A-frame, painted as if it is sitting on a lagoon, with outrigger and native maiden. It was hanging in a room next to mine, and I was too decent to rip it off, though I knew they were gonna tear the place down. Where is it now, sigh...
The great Waikikian rendering that one sees on the old postcard is now in the posession of the wife of the contractor who took the complex down.
Never heard of that boat, must've been his own, great artifact!
Hey, had my picture taken with Beachbum Berry posing with your Mai Kai Gents Tiki at the Tiki Ti last night, by Judd, who will surely forward it to you.
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