Post #319681 by tikiyaki on Wed, Jul 18, 2007 5:38 PM

Sven,

1000 Mahalos for that presentation.
Man. where do you get all this stuff from ? Amazing.

Yes, those A Frame parking stalls....I remember parking under one of them when I had to deliver food there. The place was confusing, and you had to get buzzed in, and there were entrances on 3 different streets. Because the place was so big, and had many buildings it, really had the feel of it being it's own "village".

I remember going to the place and thinking how cool it was, and admiring all those tikis. I thought, "If I ever moved to Playa Del Rey, THAT is where I'd want to live". It just personified "California Living" to me.

I remember driving down there to take photos with my cheap camera to send to Tiki News for the "Neighborhood Tiki" section of the mag, and getting an email back from Otto saying that, it had already had been covered, but he may include one of my photos. Obviously it was YOU who had already covered it.

And, yes, it definitely WAS hard to capture on film. I remember how disappointed I was when I got the pictures back, and you really couldn't see the carvings very well. What amazed me was how EVERY corner fascia had a tiki carving, and all the tikis on the grounds were hiding in the foliage, which as you stated, had really gotten pretty mature and dense. The place looked like Paradise to me back in 96'.

Driving by there last night was horrifying to see what they put up in it's place. Really just sad.

This had to be one of the coolest examples of Polynesian / Mid Century Apartment buildings in the US.

Thanx again for that dissertation, and I'm glad that you got one of the original Tikis from there.

PS...Sven, do you have any stuff on the still existing Tiki Apartment complex on Rosmead Blvd in Arcadia ?
It has a giant Tiki out front, similar in shape to the PVA oneyou restored.

[ Edited by: tikiyaki 2007-07-18 17:43 ]