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T TikiG Tiki Socialite Riverside, California Joined: Jun 17, 2008 Posts: 1560	T TikiG Posted posted on Tue, Aug 5, 2008 8:53 AM Aloha all - Greg Reyes here to introduce myself. I have tiki mana in my blood you could say and I'd love to share my tiki experiences with you here. I was born in 1963 at Hoag Memorial Hospital in Newport Beach, CA and was raised in Huntington Beach in a $11,000 1962 tract home on Mauna Lane. Tiki was everywhere in my neighborhood backyards as I grew up in the 60s. My father, Tanner, was born on a pineapple field in Hawaii in 1928. He learned to swim/surfboard by none other than Duke Kahanamoku in the 30's. Sadly he passed a few years ago. My mother, Karen, was born in Oil City, PA and moved to So.Cal in '59. I attribute my love of rock and roll to the 45rpm record collection she had. Today she resides in the cold environ of Spokane Washington. My parents, as a kid, were exactly like Lucy and Ricky Ricardo, a redhead wife with an exotic husband. My parents loved the Polynesian-pop all around us. Orange County during the 60s was full of it. I attended pre-school in Costa Mesa and vividly remember numerous Polynesian apartment complexes with torches and tikis. I loved it then and I was only four! I learned to bowl at Kona Lanes, another tiki palace gone to heaven. I have searched thru my meager personal collection of family photos and did find two cool pics of me as a kid within So.Cal tikidom. The first black and white souvenir photo was taken in 1967 at the famous Kono Hawaii restaurant on Harbor Boulevard in Santa Ana,CA. Kono Hawaii is no longer standing of course. Again I'm only four but my expression says it all! The color snapshot was taken in the backyard of the Hedley family in July 1969. Ever present tiki in the background. In the 1980s I was a urban archaeologist. I would drive all over Orange County looking for googie style anything to take pictures. Tiki was rare then, and if I had only known about some of the classic tiki locations... Please follow me on Facebook (Greg Reyes TikiG) for updates and images of my latest artwork. Mahalo - TikiG TikiG [ Edited by: TikiG 2008-08-05 08:57 ] [ Edited by: TikiG 2008-08-05 09:04 ] [ Edited by: TikiG 2008-08-05 09:11 ] [ Edited by: TikiG 2008-08-05 09:12 ] [ Edited by: TikiG 2014-08-01 15:05 ]

Aloha all - Greg Reyes here to introduce myself. I have tiki mana in my blood you could say and I'd love to share my tiki experiences with you here.

I was born in 1963 at Hoag Memorial Hospital in Newport Beach, CA and was raised in Huntington Beach in a $11,000 1962 tract home on Mauna Lane. Tiki was everywhere in my neighborhood backyards as I grew up in the 60s.

My father, Tanner, was born on a pineapple field in Hawaii in 1928. He learned to swim/surfboard by none other than Duke Kahanamoku in the 30's. Sadly he passed a few years ago.

My mother, Karen, was born in Oil City, PA and moved to So.Cal in '59. I attribute my love of rock and roll to the 45rpm record collection she had. Today she resides in the cold environ of Spokane Washington.

My parents, as a kid, were exactly like Lucy and Ricky Ricardo, a redhead wife with an exotic husband.

My parents loved the Polynesian-pop all around us. Orange County during the 60s was full of it. I attended pre-school in Costa Mesa and vividly remember numerous Polynesian apartment complexes with torches and tikis. I loved it then and I was only four!

I learned to bowl at Kona Lanes, another tiki palace gone to heaven.

I have searched thru my meager personal collection of family photos and did find two cool pics of me as a kid within So.Cal tikidom.

The first black and white souvenir photo was taken in 1967 at the famous Kono Hawaii restaurant on Harbor Boulevard in Santa Ana,CA. Kono Hawaii is no longer standing of course. Again I'm only four but my expression says it all!

The color snapshot was taken in the backyard of the Hedley family in July 1969. Ever present tiki in the background.

In the 1980s I was a urban archaeologist. I would drive all over Orange County looking for googie style anything to take pictures. Tiki was rare then, and if I had only known about some of the classic tiki locations...

Please follow me on Facebook (Greg Reyes TikiG) for updates and images of my latest artwork.

Mahalo - TikiG

TikiG

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Post #399014 by TikiG on Tue, Aug 5, 2008 8:53 AM