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Tiki Central / Locating Tiki / Aloha Jhoe's, Palm Springs, CA (restaurant)

Post #400547 by bigbrotiki on Mon, Aug 11, 2008 3:36 PM

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I wonder how much longer they stayed open after 1966....if from 1967 on there were no ads, it's a good indication they had closed, I always thought it lasted only a brief period.

Sabu, I remember that expedition to Jim Casey's well, because the lab messed up all my shots by developing the film in the wrong soup. My shot of the hornbill would maybe work as an Aloha shirt print:

He also had that PNG Crocodile from Aloha Jhoe's on the roof of his shed, for some reason this shot turned out halfway OK:

But remember I climbed up the rickety steps to get a better shot? Here it is !!!:

With this solarization effect the backyard looks like some Denge fever vision...

...as seen by Colonel Kurtz in Apocolypse Now....

...with a touch of Alice in Wonderland on LSD...

This mask came out OK too:

I wonder what happened to all of that stuff....?

Here's a crisp shot of the Bird in situ in 1962:

...and who was "Nano" ?:

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2008-08-11 23:35 ]