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Tiki Central / Locating Tiki / Tiki Room, Chicago, IL (bar)

Post #294725 by Tipsy McStagger on Mon, Mar 26, 2007 10:58 AM

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..i have actually been inside this place years ago, about 2000,2001....for about 6 months, it was used as a rave location and after hours party place...the doors didn't open til midnite...it was totally illegal....these people were not supposed to be in there which is why it got busted in a few short months.....you had to enter through a side door after being checked out by the bouncer...you had to know someone to get inside and since i worked in the bar industry for awhile, i basically knew everyone.....inside, was ahuge dance floor with a large thatch covered circular roof with about 12 bamboo posts holding it up....there was evidence of old fountains (that no longer worked) but the rock walls formation and basins were intact....there were some glass float lamps left over from the original place and some netting....there was also a broken tiki by the door inside....nothing in there was salvagable at that time....but back in the day this place probably rocked....remineded me of the kona kai at the marriot..they also had that thatched circular hut in the middle of the bar but the one here seemed twice as big.....it was a sad scene to hear all that hip hop trance music inside with all these hootchy mammas writhing on the dance floor.....it got real raunchy in there as everyone was loaded by the time they got there and they partied well past 10 a.m....it was only open like that on saturday nights....then it closed once again......never heard anything about it till someone resurected this place from the dead in this thread.....hope this info helps alittle....