Post #284512 by bigtikidude on Fri, Feb 9, 2007 3:43 PM

Hey Sven,
funny you bring this up. A guy from Nor. Cal. and I were discussing the tiki apts on a music forum, and he thought his dad had carved some of the tikis. Turns out his dad said no, but e-mailed him this.

opps the Old Man sent me this and it is a great excerpt of those
surfer dudes that have come before
so respect is a given:

(it was)Not me, it was Dirty Mike, or Tiki Mike that did those. He
was a character in El Porto. Had an old Model T truck that I
borrowed
several time to move my catamaran. But, yes, He carved all those
tikis
with a chain saw. An artist in his own way, He pulled those old
palm
trunks with that truck and then sculpted them into tikis. and then
we'd drive Sched 80 pipe thru the center with a sledge hammer. I
always thought that fibrous palm would be gone in a few years, but
I
still saw some of them around when I was there for my Dad's thing
at
Redondo HS. Amazing.

Of course, the Sched 80 pipe was req'd for the building code. I was
surprised how easy it was to pound a piece of pipe down the middle
of
one of those old trunks.

And it's amazing how dated those places are now. Shitload of 'em in
Torrance that Dirty Mike did and so outdated now.

writtenby: Captain W. H. Mac Faden USN Ret.

this is written with pending permission from Pops
tho he's cool
and would think it mellow to be used here
kinda neat to know