Post #281189 by bigbrotiki on Fri, Jan 26, 2007 1:38 PM

Wow, good find indeed! That place must not have been around for long, nobody knows anything about it. There is a nice postcard of it, you can see it (and the see-through roof) on Page 59 of the BOT (I always hated how they cut off the entrance Tiki on the right there, because of page "bleed"!).

These look like Milan Guanko Tikis to me. I never saw that big one by the side entrance, very cool. Their matchbook has the architectural rendering on it, the original of THAT would be a find, too!:

All in all it really looks like a very theatrical place, conceived like a temporary stage set, with big Tikis/big A-frame for effect, but the core being just a regular cafeteria, judging by the interior :). I wonder if they had those two wings that one can see on the rendering.

Patrick, if you do not intend to use it for any projects of your own, I would love to get a high res scan of that wide shot, I bet cropping and zooming would really bring out the detail in the Tikis and cars!