Post #166761 by Sabu The Coconut Boy on Sun, Jun 19, 2005 1:05 AM

ZuluMagoo - Definitely feel free to use a photo for your tiki tour guide. I really like the current version and look forward to version II.

If anyone decides to visit the Kala Kai in Lomita, you may as well head down Narbonne afterwards to 23611 Narbonne. Still in Lomita, this is the site of a Tiki Apartment complex that cynfulcynner remembers from childhood as the "Diamond Head".

Unfortunately, any sign with a name is now covered or gone. No tikis remain either inside or out, and the nifty shields and spears that decorated the outside walls are in a sad state of disrepair:

Also around the corner from the Kala Kai is this small structure at 26122 Western:

The current owner of the Benz Repair Shop here remembers the building as a car wash in the 1960s. He insists it was never a bar or tavern, even though the architecture teases in that direction. Could this have been a tiki car wash? Why the funky architecture? This one is still a mystery.

Sabu