Post #154662 by Tiki Motu on Sun, Apr 24, 2005 7:22 AM

I live in Sydney, but as a child, my family would drive north to Queensland's Gold Coast every May School Holidays. It was my favourite time of the year. I can remember visiting this place with a cool beergarden & BBQ area overlooking a swimming pool & surrounded by tropical gardens - & Tikis! - I think we only visited a couple of times - It was called Tiki Village. It must have been about 1966 or '67. I reckon that was my first Tiki encounter. From what I understand now, It has become Tiki Village International which is a kind of timeshare accommodation place. One of my nieces stayed there for 'Schoolies' ( a migration that High School students from mostly Sydney & Melbourne undertake when they've left school to get drunk & other things en masse - think 'Spring Break' - October / November ) & she didn't think that much of it. I do know that the jetty beside the hotel is called 'Tiki Wharf'. I haven't been to the Gold Coast for twenty years but I'd like to go back this year & do some urban archaeology. The Gold Coast as we know it was born during the Fifties & Sixties, so hopefully some architecture remains.