Post #432466 by tiki mick on Wed, Feb 4, 2009 11:19 AM

If and when it closes, I hope they have a public auction for all the decor. I don't want to hear that some private collector scored all of it, or that "we don't know what happened to it".

Disney is famous for doing that. What the heck happened to all the stuff and props from adventures in inner space, for example? I heard, a landfill in Mexico?

I would have loved the chance to score an actual atom mobile.

How much would a person pay for one of the thatch huts in the hidden village?

Ok, I admit, I am not optimistic. But having been a restaraunt manager in my youth, I am aware of rent and taxes for beach located places. Kona would have to be filled every nite to achieve the kind of success needed to sustain such a large place. I am sorry, but I don't see it happening. We are too small a niche to really give them the business they need.

However, if there were a collective of investors from this forum, perhaps then it would have a chance...but in the end, they will have to turn it into a sports bar, or pick up joint (Like royal hawaiian) and then it loses all of it's "tikiness". Perhaps it's almost better to let it go, and keep our memories of the place. You can't fight the tide, sometimes.
As Bigbro has often pointed out, half the fun is in the decay of tiki-finding stuff that is past it's prime, no longer shiny and new. Urban archeology, not "new old stock", as it were.

But Jim, one good thing...your group was among the last performances at this place...at least you have that, right?

[ Edited by: lucas vigor 2009-02-04 11:25 ]