Post #427079 by 8FT Tiki on Sun, Jan 4, 2009 11:09 AM

This may sound a bit weird and some of you may already know about this but I found no threads discussing it after a lot of searching. Here goes.....I found this postcard the other day and wanted to add the image to an existing thread about the location if it wasn't already done. The tikis take a back seat to the birds in this photo.

I couldn't find any information on TC so I went to google to learn more. WOW, I found something much different than I expected. It seems that the park, which specialized in Tropical Bird shows, opened in 1968 and closed in 1994. Now it is being used to film some of the scenes from the tv show LOST.

Here is a link to the website I found which shows how parts of the park look today. Perhaps some of you have been there and have photos of it before it closed? The postcard is dated 1977. Any locals or vacationers who could go there to get some recent photos might be interesting also.

http://www.lostvirtualtour.com/lost/filming_locations/paradisepark/index.html

An article from 2006:

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2006/Mar/03/ln/FP603030358.html

I once was lost............but now I'm found

[ Edited by: 8FT Tiki 2009-01-04 11:24 ]

[ Edited by: 8ft tiki 2009-01-04 16:33 ]