Post #188504 by tikitortured on Fri, Sep 23, 2005 6:26 PM

I don't mean to beat a dead horse by reviving this thread but I really think this place deserves the attention. It's really a relatively unknown and unfrequented gem. It is such a classic old tiki joint and it gets very little recognition. Sure it has beer signs and posters of sexy beer chix hanging everywhere, but underneath all of that and the dust is a truly vintage Tiki bar. No offense to the Lucky Tiki or the Purple Orchid or Mr. Tiki, because I DIG those joints, but I'd rather hang at this raggedy old place, sip my mediocre-yet-cheap Mai-Tai, and daydream about what this place once was. Even better: what this place COULD BE again! All it needs is a little TLC...TIKI LOOKING CRAP. Man, if we (Tiki folk), made a few suggestions and/or donations to the owners, this place could be "the $#!+" again! I've talked to the owners, a VERY NICE man and wife of (I think) Polynesian-Asian extraction and when I told them how cool and classic their place was and how there is a big Tiki Bar revival going on, they seemed surprised. I'm not trying to "rally the troops" or anything but I do want to bring attention to one of the last REAL Tiki bars in L.A. or California, or the U.S. for that matter, cuz before long all we're gonna have left is our own home bars and a few newfangled,trying to be vintage, immitation, plastic coconut, twelve dollar Mai-Tai cuz Tiki-Ti does, ceramic tiki mask, yet still pretty cool cuz we got nothin' else left kinda places! So c'mon down and support this dive and strike up a convo with the sweet little Asian gal behind the bar and tell her how cool her place is and how much cooler it would be if she would put this Tiki pole you carved in the corner over there. I'll be the knucklehead at the end of the bar sippin' a FIVE DOLLAR MAI-TAI with a stoopid look on my face, gazing past that hot Mexican chick holding a can of Modelo. Aloha!

[ Edited by: tikitortured 2005-09-23 18:29 ]