Post #287849 by bigbrotiki on Sat, Feb 24, 2007 1:36 AM

Thank you for your work, Mimi! Let's see what I can come up with then...

Let's start with some classic style ones:

Clifton's has probably the most mural postcards of any old place in circulation to this day:

Then there was the Kona Kove bar at the Stardust bowl, this pic is in the BOT, but I zoomed into the back bar mural:

Here the remnants of the Underwater mural at the Chin Tiki, Detroit:

And now for some less conventional, more off the beaten track watering holes. I love this place because everthing seems self made, no O.A. or Witco or anything recognizable in sight:


Heddy's must have been "different" cause it showed some nudity in its mural:

For the next unusual mural home I chose Tiny's Hut, up in Walnut Creek, CA. While the outside sign was cool, the building itself could have easily been called "Tiny's Bunker":

..and the inside had no exotic decor what so ever...but wait, what's that to the right?:

A damn fine mural, and one WITH a Tiki, which is a rare occurence for murals. Looks like Tiny blew his budget on the mural, and then had no money for thatch and floats left...

And last not least, this color atrocity, the Tahiti Lounge in Jacksonville, Florida. The color scheme speaks of late 60s, and if anybody knows when drop ceilings were introduced, we know a date for the beginning of the decline of Tiki Bars...

..fittingly, it has Witco on the walls, but what happend on the wall behind the stage? Once we zoom in, we can differentiate some details, but some remain cryptic:

An example for the wide variety of mural art. The foursided modern Moai are the coolest thing about this place.