Post #447944 by Queen Kamehameha on Sat, Apr 18, 2009 10:53 AM

that is sad, another Tiki visionary gone......

I was in Newberry Springs yesterday, I met a real estate woman who knew Gus and Loreen well, she used to go to the Cantonese restaurant when she was young.

She took me to the Lake Loreen site, it was barren, all the poles, cut at the base, the buildings were down, she said there was a well issue at this site, that is why Gus built the other 2 sites, taking all pieces of the Loreen site with him. The other 2 sites are thriving and there are many homes around the lakes he built.She also said that the place Bamboo Ben, The family and I found was also his site and was funded by the dentist. It was working and doing well till the dentist sold it.She had a map of the complete build out of the property and the map has the tiki bird plane on it, tikis, amazing drawings. I will take some photos of it later and post them here. Amazing place Newberry springs.

Here are the drawings and the comments

this says " Valley of Lakes" Newberry Springs, There's even a Road over 29 palms to Palm Springs on this map.

Lake Wainani under construction, which is actually built and looking great, it is a private retreat

Fabulous Fishing and Fishing Farms

twin -engine beechcraft- "The Tiki Bird" bring passengers to the Raigosa's for one of 4 anual Luau's

I will try to get it scanned and post some better pictures

Amy

[ Edited by: Queen Kamehameha 2009-04-18 22:46 ]