Post #455039 by bigbrotiki on Tue, May 19, 2009 10:09 PM

I agree, with both posts: Home made, and too expensive. Though stylistically it is close to some of Eli Hedley's Tikis, but while it has the simplicity, it doesn't have that naive elegance. Here is an Eli Tiki at the Kamia Village in Anaheim:

...WITH anchor chain and giant anchor, no less. It is likely that that's what the chain hook on the Tiki is for. Back in Tiki's heyday anchor chains could be had for cheap at the nautical salvage yards in San Pedro, and many Poly pop places used them as railing between nautical pier pylons, such as are still seen at the Aloha Arms apartments in Pico Rivera:

On closer examination there are some unremovable chain remnants left at the stairs platform...

(which suggests that once water flowed underneath the whole walkway).