Photos of Alphie's - A Vintage Tiki Diner in Goleta, CA - General Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Wed, Apr 23, 2003 12:26 AM Ha, what a hidden gem...I love those places that don't look Tiki at all from the outside...I remember a place in San Francisco, "Raffles", the follow up joint to Tiki Bob's. It was on Market street on the ground floor of a generic office highrise, no mention of Polynesian outside, and 99% of the clientel seemed to have no clue what the stuff on the walls was, or why it was there..it was more like an office cafeteria. I wonder if the new owners have any old photos of before the white walls phase...that kinf of destroys the atmosphere. A lot of the stuff is straight out of the Oceanic Arts catalog, but not all of it. Great how well kept it is, lucky the college crowd moved on. On the last photo, the Tiki next to the specials board is a Milan Guanko inspired two footer that was machine carved. One was used as the bad luck Tiki "Kona" in one of the few Tiki showing episodes of "Gilligan's Island". [ Edited by: bigbrotiki on 2003-04-23 00:29 ]

Ha, what a hidden gem...I love those places that don't look Tiki at all from the outside...I remember a place in San Francisco, "Raffles", the follow up joint to Tiki Bob's. It was on Market street on the ground floor of a generic office highrise, no mention of Polynesian outside, and 99% of the clientel seemed to have no clue what the stuff on the walls was, or why it was there..it was more like an office cafeteria.

I wonder if the new owners have any old photos of before the white walls phase...that kinf of destroys the atmosphere.
A lot of the stuff is straight out of the Oceanic Arts catalog, but not all of it. Great how well kept it is, lucky the college crowd moved on.

On the last photo, the Tiki next to the specials board is a Milan Guanko inspired two footer that was machine carved. One was used as the bad luck Tiki "Kona" in one of the few Tiki showing episodes of "Gilligan's Island".

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki on 2003-04-23 00:29 ]

Post #31202 by bigbrotiki on Wed, Apr 23, 2003 12:26 AM