What can we do to give this place a shot in the arm? - General Tiki

O Ojaitimo Member Joined: Aug 04, 2006 Posts: 1317	O Ojaitimo Posted posted on Thu, Dec 7, 2006 12:16 PM If some of you think this site is dead I can't imagine what it has been like in the past. Since joining all of you this past summer after finding the Trade Winds thread by Bongo Fury, I have felt like a addict. Jeff Berry posted that TC is like crack cocaine to him. I laughed at that and then realized it has that effect on me. But its a good thing. My girlfriend was amused at first and to quote her " I'll give it 6 months" Well, here we are in December and I think she is beginning to understand my obsession with tiki is permanent. I found Tiki Central and a lot of you very cool people and have become a budding urban archeologist. I have photographed and posted a number of tiki sites from Southern California and Hawaii with many more to go and record. I love to read your old posts and wonder about many of the images that are gone, can any of you please repost some of these if you have them? I want to do what I can to expand our images with my archives and my own photography, if anyone has a location they would like to see here let me know. I just found the Hawaiian Garden Apartments because a friend who has been to TC lurking saw the other posts of apartments and hadn't thought to mention it because it wasn't a "Tiki bar" Yesterday I photographed the Kon Akai Tiki apartments 113 unit condo complex that was a swinging singles complex in the 60's that apparently is to be remodeled soon. I would like to see more involvement in preservation as well. I heard this discussion on the radio about “Tahitian Village” it is in Las Vegas, expensive and apparently a lot of stars frequent it. One of them mentioned “I’d like to stay in the Bamboo room” Is this enough of a shot in the arm? http://www.consolidatedresorts.com/audio-video/ANIM_640.wmv Ojaitimo [ Edited by: Ojaitimo 2006-12-08 13:18 ]

If some of you think this site is dead I can't imagine what it has been like in the past. Since joining all of you this past summer after finding the Trade Winds thread by Bongo Fury, I have felt like a addict.
Jeff Berry posted that TC is like crack cocaine to him. I laughed at that and then realized it has that effect on me. But its a good thing.
My girlfriend was amused at first and to quote her " I'll give it 6 months" Well, here we are in December and I think she is beginning to understand my obsession with tiki is permanent. I found Tiki Central and a lot of you very cool people and have become a budding urban archeologist. I have photographed and posted a number of tiki sites from Southern California and Hawaii with many more to go and record.

I love to read your old posts and wonder about many of the images that are gone, can any of you please repost some of these if you have them?
I want to do what I can to expand our images with my archives and my own photography, if anyone has a location they would like to see here let me know.
I just found the Hawaiian Garden Apartments because a friend who has been to TC lurking saw the other posts of apartments and hadn't thought to mention it because it wasn't a "Tiki bar" Yesterday I photographed the Kon Akai Tiki apartments 113 unit condo complex that was a swinging singles complex in the 60's that apparently is to be remodeled soon. I would like to see more involvement in preservation as well.

I heard this discussion on the radio about “Tahitian Village” it is in Las Vegas, expensive and apparently a lot of stars frequent it. One of them mentioned “I’d like to stay in the Bamboo room” Is this enough of a shot in the arm?
http://www.consolidatedresorts.com/audio-video/ANIM_640.wmv
Ojaitimo

[ Edited by: Ojaitimo 2006-12-08 13:18 ]

Post #271038 by Ojaitimo on Thu, Dec 7, 2006 12:16 PM