Mira Mar Motor Inn & Restaurant/Ship Room, Oceanside, CA (hotel) - Locating Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Sat, Mar 28, 2009 1:44 PM Nice architectural history line up of images. I would love to see close ups of those 2nd post card's two big-ass signs! Now THAT was roadside signage! Later they got more "tasteful". I support any and all such enthusiastic research, but allow me to differentiate: The fact that this place had mid-century elements like an A-frame, and a nautical restaurant/bar, is great, but as I pointed out in Tiki Modern, the A-frame was a general modernist style element that was not necessarily Tiki: Bowling alleys with other themes, churches and fast food places used it also. The same goes for modest outrigger beams. They were used on all kinds of mid-century modern buildings. And a nautical bar is just that: A nautical bar (that swaying mast sign concept was cool!) And I am just not quite seeing those Tiki shields (could be crests with crossed oars), and since I do not find any other evidence of Polynesian or Tiki embellishments in any of the images, I would not count it as Polynesian pop. That is not to say it should not have been posted here, because nautical is a side genre of Poly pop. :)

Nice architectural history line up of images. I would love to see close ups of those 2nd post card's two big-ass signs! Now THAT was roadside signage! Later they got more "tasteful".

I support any and all such enthusiastic research, but allow me to differentiate: The fact that this place had mid-century elements like an A-frame, and a nautical restaurant/bar, is great, but as I pointed out in Tiki Modern, the A-frame was a general modernist style element that was not necessarily Tiki: Bowling alleys with other themes, churches and fast food places used it also. The same goes for modest outrigger beams. They were used on all kinds of mid-century modern buildings.

And a nautical bar is just that: A nautical bar (that swaying mast sign concept was cool!) And I am just not quite seeing those Tiki shields (could be crests with crossed oars), and since I do not find any other evidence of Polynesian or Tiki embellishments in any of the images, I would not count it as Polynesian pop.

That is not to say it should not have been posted here, because nautical is a side genre of Poly pop. :)

Post #443182 by bigbrotiki on Sat, Mar 28, 2009 1:44 PM