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Yesterday Von Tiki delivered this tiki to David Ellis who wanted him to carve it in homage to his dad Richard Ellis who was not only a great tiki carver but a pro surfer as well. He is seen in the beer ad. The photographs are of Richard Ellis during the filming of Waterworld that David was the assistant director for. He cast his dad in in some of the action roles. (How old would he have been then?)
He recently directed Snakes on a Plane and is currently working on his new film Asylum. Maybe he will do a Tiki film soon?
 
 
 
 
On 2006-07-02 21:00, Surfinannie wrote:
My late father, Richard M. Ellis, spent a year of his life, starting in 1962, decorating and carving all the Tikis for the Tradewinds Restaurant, at Wagon Wheel Junction, Oxnard for Martin V. Smith. more info. to follow.
On 2006-08-05 23:32, Ojaitimo wrote:
I found Tiki Central while doing a search for my own bar and came across the Trade Wind's thread by chance. She did a number of restuarants as the designer such as the Lobster Trap and the Ole for Martin V Smith who also built the Trade Wind's in the mid sixties, she collaberated with Richard Ellis who was the Tiki artist and someone from 20th Century Film whose name escapes me. This was my favorite place she was the designer for. I remember going to a large property yard in LA where she would look for items to use at the Trade Wind's. It had a boat and rickshaw among some of the items that came from the yard.
On 2006-08-06 09:23, bigbrotiki wrote:
In your picture, your mom is holding a Witco-made "Female G'nomie", and standing next to it, from the same manufacturer, we see a "Boy Puppet". I don't think the guy next to her is Annie's Dad, maybe the pic is not from the Tradewinds. If Richard Ellis spent a year carving there, there would have been no need for Witco, it was considered sub-par by the more sophisticated Southern Cal carvers. But maybe she mixed and matched.
The place with the yard where she got her decor could have been Oceanic Arts in Whittier, because Rich Ellis worked with them, but the boat makes it sound more like Trader Luke in San Pedro...or Sea & Jungle in Glendale, or Benson's, then in Long Beach ?
On 2006-08-07 03:01, bigbrotiki wrote:
"...Rick Ellis...since early 1963 he has created a family of some 50 figures like nothing ever seen before in Ventura County..."
I bet! To imagine that. And where are they now! How could they all disappear! Sigh.
There is a postcard out there of that above mentioned raised platform called the Tiki Temple. Sounds a bit grander than it is, can someone post it?...or wait, it's actually the same then the (better) photo of the Samoa Hut that Bongofury posted on the previous page.
Here is a link to the Trade Winds with a number of tiki by Richard Ellis.
http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=19144&forum=1&46
[ Edited by: Ojaitimo 2007-05-22 13:35 ]
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