Post #4391 by theARTFINK on Thu, Jul 25, 2002 7:47 PM

I live about 5 miles from where they store all the Kahiki artifacts from the resturant. It's in a real crappy warehouse district by the airport. what a waste that all that cool stuff is just collecting dust. He said that everything inside was stored, But I stumble across stuff around town all the time at junk stores and antique stores like tables,chairs,lamps,etc. makes me wonder what all he REALLY kept. I will have to see if I can find it but there was a story in the local paper awile back about the re-opening and Michael Tsoa said that they had a spot all picked out for the new local but the city of Cow-lumbus denied selling him the land 'cause his plans conflicted with their plans of having a crappy sports theme and urban hip nite-life ( or in otherwords sports brew pub #109 and dance club #220 ) So I think he just got pissed off at the whole situation and said if he rebuilds now it might be in Vegas or start a chain in several cities ( I like that idea! ) I really think at the begining he was serious about rebuilding. I used to hang out at the bar every week and toward the end after the place closed for the night he had a company come in and document every square inch of the place with photographs and bluprints for the re-building. So this hole of a town has probably lost another cool link to the past for good.