Montana Tiki Bar makes GQ top 10 bars in the world - General Tiki

T tikibars Tiki Socialite Aku Hall, Chicago Joined: Apr 11, 2002 Posts: 2034	T tikibars Posted posted on Sun, Jun 1, 2003 10:32 AM I received a half dozen emails circa 1996-1997, back in the early days of the Tiki Bar Review Pages, talking about how great a Tiki bar this place supposedly is. That said, none of the people who emailed me could come up with an address or phone number for them, and even a web search revealed nothing (all those apostrophies probably confused the search engines and the phone directory sites). Interesting that there is such a dearth of data on this place on the web after all (thanks for the links). Based on this picture http://www.davidmsc.com/MT/archives/000564.html it doesn't look too bad. One of the other links mentions that the bartender collects Aloha shirts, and there is a pic of a mermaid-gal swimming in the pool behind the bar. Seems pretty cool, for Montana! That one of the comments on this web page compared it to David Lynch is never a bad sign in my book, either. As for the name - Sip'n'Dip - true, it is not very Tiki, but neither is The Alibi, Chef Shangri-La, or Omni Hut, and all of those places rock. Note that one of the other web sites linked to above (thanks for those links) says that the decor was "purchased in 1965 from a party warehouse in Los Angeles". I wonder if this is Oceanic Arts?

I received a half dozen emails circa 1996-1997, back in the early days of the Tiki Bar Review Pages, talking about how great a Tiki bar this place supposedly is.

That said, none of the people who emailed me could come up with an address or phone number for them, and even a web search revealed nothing (all those apostrophies probably confused the search engines and the phone directory sites).

Interesting that there is such a dearth of data on this place on the web after all (thanks for the links).
Based on this picture http://www.davidmsc.com/MT/archives/000564.html it doesn't look too bad. One of the other links mentions that the bartender collects Aloha shirts, and there is a pic of a mermaid-gal swimming in the pool behind the bar. Seems pretty cool, for Montana!

That one of the comments on this web page compared it to David Lynch is never a bad sign in my book, either.

As for the name - Sip'n'Dip - true, it is not very Tiki, but neither is The Alibi, Chef Shangri-La, or Omni Hut, and all of those places rock.

Note that one of the other web sites linked to above (thanks for those links) says that the decor was "purchased in 1965 from a party warehouse in Los Angeles". I wonder if this is Oceanic Arts?

Post #36838 by tikibars on Sun, Jun 1, 2003 10:32 AM