The Reef, Long Beach, CA (restaurant) - Locating Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11616	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Tue, Apr 28, 2009 11:29 PM Woops, I almost missed this post. That Reef place mat is ace, Sabu! It clearly proves that there were various carvers involved with the Reef, lookey 'ere: This definitely is the Tiki Andres Bumatay was carving when this article (unfortunately folded) was published, (which is the missing link to my Bumatay page in the BOT) Now: Charles Phoenix has a slide from the Reef with some folks posing with a Tiki that looks Rosenkrantz-style, but I don't have it, just this: This also reminded me that I own a very similar strange Bumatay-style ceramic statue, collected in the mid-90s: It was obviously intended to be a lamp... ...but never made into one. Wonder why!?

Woops, I almost missed this post. That Reef place mat is ace, Sabu! It clearly proves that there were various carvers involved with the Reef, lookey 'ere:

This definitely is the Tiki Andres Bumatay was carving when this article (unfortunately folded) was published, (which is the missing link to my Bumatay page in the BOT)

Now: Charles Phoenix has a slide from the Reef with some folks posing with a Tiki that looks Rosenkrantz-style, but I don't have it, just this:

This also reminded me that I own a very similar strange Bumatay-style ceramic statue, collected in the mid-90s:

It was obviously intended to be a lamp...

...but never made into one. Wonder why!?

Post #450422 by bigbrotiki on Tue, Apr 28, 2009 11:29 PM