Post #358463 by tikijackalope on Thu, Jan 31, 2008 10:00 PM

Alas, this store, glimpsed from hwy 60 in west Paducah, turned out to be just a pool and spa place. I found no tiki at all.

Here's the carving 8ft mentioned.

But it's an interesting city. One can find two examples of non-geodesic commercial dome architecture (now a barber shop and a motel room), a run-down stucco teepee that used to be a liquor store, two old theatres, blocks of well-preserved Art Deco, Italianate and Classical Revival downtown architecture, murals that commemorate the "Atomic City" era, bits of newer buildings with googie influence, a pizza place in a well-preserved boomerang-roofline Big Boy, a decades-old family bar-b-que place, an Art Deco Coca-Cola plant and an eccentric costume shop with a Buster Brown neon sign and a small collection of antique wax mannequins.