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Tiki Central / Locating Tiki / Royal Hawaiian, Huntington beach, CA (apartments)

Post #376141 by ZuluMagoo on Fri, Apr 25, 2008 8:25 AM

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The Royal Hawaiian Apartments


Management sign on the front of the building


These are the two carport tikis that were originally discussed. They front 12th Street.


Detail of carport tiki on the left.


Detail of carport tiki on the right.


Step through these heavy bamboo doors into the courtyard.....


...and you will find a couple more support pole tikis.


Courtyard tikis.


Detail of courtyard tiki on the right.


Detail of courtyard tiki on the left.


But my favorite part of this comlex was this exterior three dimensional outrigger sign on the front of the building. While I was photographing it, one of the oldtimer residents was walking by and asked what I was doing. I explained and then he told me that a few years ago this sign was entirely covered with the tiles that are still left on the face. But one morning he came out to walk his dog and all of the original tiles (except for the face) had fallen off. He told me that winter had been especially wet and that was why the tiles had probably fallen off. So the sign was sent out to a sign shop and repainted and hung back up. I give kudos to the properety manager fot repairing the sign instead of trashing it in favor of something more modern!


Detail of the face with the original tile work (looks very American Indian to me)