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B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Mon, Mar 14, 2005 6:26 PM On 2005-03-14 16:15, thejab wrote: ...and the waiter was very friendly. He said many of the artifacts in there were actually brought back from Africa by the owner. I tried to find the Witco to no avail. Bigbrotiki must have a special Witco sensing talent! You must have been suffering from cocktail iduced memory loss, Mr J: Locating Tiki Quote: "...The Safari Room... must have been a fine Exotica Bar and restaurant in it's heyday, as some of the remaining O.A. carvings testify" Oceanic Arts, not Witco. (O.A. actually always carefully distanced themselves from Witco, as they were more "authentic" in style). What a classic waiter story though: Carvings brought back from Africa...(just like from Hawaii, from New Guinea)...when in fact they all came from Whittier! All the same, because usually for the new generation of proprietors/staff of these establishments, O.A. has been forgotten, and is as far away as Africa.

On 2005-03-14 16:15, thejab wrote:
...and the waiter was very friendly. He said many of the artifacts in there were actually brought back from Africa by the owner. I tried to find the Witco to no avail. Bigbrotiki must have a special Witco sensing talent!

You must have been suffering from cocktail iduced memory loss, Mr J:

Locating Tiki Quote:
"...The Safari Room... must have been a fine Exotica Bar and restaurant in it's heyday, as some of the remaining O.A. carvings testify"

Oceanic Arts, not Witco. (O.A. actually always carefully distanced themselves from Witco, as they were more "authentic" in style).

What a classic waiter story though: Carvings brought back from Africa...(just like from Hawaii, from New Guinea)...when in fact they all came from Whittier! All the same, because usually for the new generation of proprietors/staff of these establishments, O.A. has been forgotten, and is as far away as Africa.

Post #146800 by bigbrotiki on Mon, Mar 14, 2005 6:26 PM