Post #284438 by bigbrotiki on Fri, Feb 9, 2007 10:35 AM

On 2007-02-08 16:08, bigbrotiki wrote:
....It has actually happened several times on this board that family members of the owners..... chimed in to the thread and contributed insider info to these long forgotten Tiki temple histories....

Cool! So my hunch was right! Thank, you Volcano Girl. We do hope you might dig up more memorabilia. Except for the postcard, I have never even seen a match book of your place. The mother lode would always be the architectural rendering! :)

But as urban archaeologists, we can glean more info out of the remnants at hand, by zooming into the postcard for example:

This must be the "Buddha" you remember, actually a Tiki done in the style of the Marquesas Islands, North of Tahiti. Was that the menu on that stand on the left?

It looks like these gazebos were in the main room under the big A-frame, together with tall palm trees, much like at the Kahiki in Columbus.

I love the use of fire erupting out of the water, an effect that Tiki temples utilized way before Las Vegas did. The Tiki statue at the entrance looks like it was based on the Pele image below:

(...which, interestingly so, must have been collected in the 1800s by Mormon missionairies in Hawaii, because the original can be found at the Temple Square Museum in Salt Lake City)

All in all, you grew up in quite a place:

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2007-02-09 10:42 ]