Post #18140 by bigbrotiki on Sat, Jan 4, 2003 9:44 AM

On 2003-01-03 11:20, Doctor Z wrote:
... and whatever happened to the "The Tikis" in Monterrey Park, the one that actually was open and wildly successful (for a while at least)? The pix in BOT are of Monterrey Park, while your vid shows Elsinore, yes? The BOT pix show a ruined, overgrown paradise - when were the 'after' photos taken? Any knowledge as to where any of the MP tikis ended up, or did Danny take them all to Elsinore?

All the pix with girls in them (Volcano, dancers, brochure) are from Monterey Park, which is now the site of a self storage company. The address is on the matchbook, go check it out. Behind the storage units there is lots of greenery and growth, maybe one could dig up some Tiki mug shards.

All other pix were taken by me in the mid 90s at the Lake Elsinore location, I also taped some Video footage. Around '97 Danny started selling of his Tikis, I led two expeditions of modcomers there then, but by then he had already sold a couple of larger Tikis (p.112) to "The Sea" store in San Pedro (now also defunkt). I ended up with two nice midsized Tikis (one is the Maori underneath the gable on p.108, originally from OA), the storyboard painting on p. 109, and two lamps (one you can see in the brochure p.113, bottom left corner).

For a while his ex wife was offering the Tikiccino machine for 500.- bucks, problem was it was all corroded inside and not repairable. Later I discovered it at a nursery on Golden West Blvd, the one with the oilrigs (Tiki News #15 "Oilrigs and Palmtrees"). They must have been investors in the Tikis and reclaimed what they could.

Danny lives somewhere in Vegas now, making Indian Leather and bead jewelery. I am in touch with one of his sons, Dan Jr, whose nickname was Tiki.