Outrigger Club, Ardmore, OK (restaurant) - Locating Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Sun, Aug 23, 2009 1:38 PM Great postcard, great menu! The photos of how the place looks today remind me of "The Volcano" in Florida. Amazing the entrance A-frame, the bridge and the waterfall mound are still there. Wonder if the original operators are still around. I always thought that postcard was as great as a representation of Tiki style as it can be...almost, that is: This images got everything: Tikis, a lava rock waterfall feeding a moat that is traversed by a bridge, an A-frame with a fishnet float hanging from its center, Tiki torches ablaze, the entrance crowned by a Witco mask... we all can see that. Yep!: WE can see that, but can the layman? I have hesitated using this gem because its lack of clarity. To the Tikiphile, it's a dream come true, but to the novice it must be perplexing: Too many things in the frame with their geography not clear. But nevermind, since this board is for Tikiphiles, let's talk about some Tiki esoterics concerning this postcard: I wonder how many more Milan Guanko Tikis made it all the way out to Oklahoma to this place! Those two are fine examples of his "Frightened Tiki" style, here are some more: at the Royal Hawaiian, Laguna Beach unknown apartment with Guanko Tikis, Ontario Kapu Kai bowling alley post (middle) Kapu Kai doors This particular design also always reminded me of my favorite Tiki bowl Tiki:

Great postcard, great menu! The photos of how the place looks today remind me of "The Volcano" in Florida. Amazing the entrance A-frame, the bridge and the waterfall mound are still there. Wonder if the original operators are still around.

I always thought that postcard was as great as a representation of Tiki style as it can be...almost, that is:

This images got everything: Tikis, a lava rock waterfall feeding a moat that is traversed by a bridge, an A-frame with a fishnet float hanging from its center, Tiki torches ablaze, the entrance crowned by a Witco mask... we all can see that.

Yep!: WE can see that, but can the layman? I have hesitated using this gem because its lack of clarity. To the Tikiphile, it's a dream come true, but to the novice it must be perplexing: Too many things in the frame with their geography not clear.

But nevermind, since this board is for Tikiphiles, let's talk about some Tiki esoterics concerning this postcard:

I wonder how many more Milan Guanko Tikis made it all the way out to Oklahoma to this place! Those two are fine examples of his "Frightened Tiki" style, here are some more:

at the Royal Hawaiian, Laguna Beach

unknown apartment with Guanko Tikis, Ontario

Kapu Kai bowling alley post (middle)

Kapu Kai doors

This particular design also always reminded me of my favorite Tiki bowl Tiki:

Post #478913 by bigbrotiki on Sun, Aug 23, 2009 1:38 PM