Chin Tiki, Detroit, MI (restaurant) - Locating Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Fri, Mar 6, 2009 2:15 PM Tiz Tiz, Dave, where is your spirit of urban archeology, the sense of mystery of buried civilizations? We are here not to speak ill of the dead, but sing the glory of Tiki havens of the past, so that their stories will be told for generations to come! TIKI MODERN, CHAPTER 7: THE TIKI AND ITS TEMPLES “In the midst of desolation and ruin we looked back to the past, cleared away the gloomy forest, and fancied every building perfect, with its terraces and pyramids, its sculptured and painted ornaments, grand, lofty, and imposing” And now a moment of silence for the CHIN TIKI, please: Back in the day: And photographed in 2007: Entering the tomb of the Chin Tiki (2007): Some of its treasures: (Now before anybody gets a heart attack, all this decor HAS been removed since)

Tiz Tiz, Dave, where is your spirit of urban archeology, the sense of mystery of buried civilizations? We are here not to speak ill of the dead, but sing the glory of Tiki havens of the past, so that their stories will be told for generations to come!

TIKI MODERN, CHAPTER 7: THE TIKI AND ITS TEMPLES
“In the midst of desolation and ruin we looked back to the past, cleared away the gloomy forest, and fancied every building perfect, with its terraces and pyramids, its sculptured and painted ornaments, grand, lofty, and imposing”

And now a moment of silence for the CHIN TIKI, please:

Back in the day:

And photographed in 2007:

Entering the tomb of the Chin Tiki (2007):

Some of its treasures:

(Now before anybody gets a heart attack, all this decor HAS been removed since)

Post #438225 by bigbrotiki on Fri, Mar 6, 2009 2:15 PM