Post #140758 by bigbrotiki on Fri, Feb 11, 2005 8:26 PM

Wow, what an urban archeologist's dream! Talk about patina! The layers of time...

I have been debating for a while to go there and photograph it...where else would one find a Tiki Bar closed down for thirty years but left intact (almost). Too bad that Eminem has sort of de-virginized it.

I would love to shoot a horror movie there, about a gang that hides from the cops in there, and gets haunted by Tiki ghosts...driven to INSANITY!!! At the end, the only surviver emerges with his face frozen in a Tiki mask stare: mother of pearl eyes, flared nostrils, a frozen grin and mumbling nothing but ancient Hawaiian..

Spotted a couple of O.A. walldecor pieces (behind Marvin Chin), and I would not be surprised if they did the Tikis too. Interestingly so, they seem unfinished, just plain palmwood. The guy next to Mr. Peanut did not let me rest, the mouth was too distinctive, I had seen it before...

You can find it NOT in the BOT, but in TIKI QUEST page iv, in the small photo I took of the Chicago Kona Kai Tikis in situ, it is very similar to the left and the middle guy, and opposite page, the big one later in Duke's backyard.

These again are smaller versions of the big sucker Ed Crissman carved for the Hotel Taharaa, BOT p.245

...and I love that Witco Wahine chair. Missed one of those at the Starlite Room store, but got to photograph it. Wonder if the Witco "Tahititan Lovers" painting in the postcard is still there, maybe they just didn't picture it.

Love that painted Tiki on the door.

Did you notice that the "booth where Eminem sat" got more clicks than the other images? I guess people have different priorities...

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki on 2005-02-11 23:21 ]