Post #480981 by abstractiki on Wed, Sep 2, 2009 6:00 PM

Thank's for your comments brotiki, and that is a great quote! To me it was almost like discovering an ancient city where the people who built it and lived there originally had long since died out and been forgotten. Their descendants now living there having no clue as to their own cities history and the past culture that once thrived there.

I made a short excursion and visited again today. I found a gate unlocked and I was wearing my ditch digging clothes so i didn't feel so out of place this time. (note to myself for future expeditions!) I went inside, surveyed the whole place and was warmly greeted by some native children. The only new discoveries were as follows:

1. That the front of the main lobby was covered in that old gray volcanic rock that was popular at the time. It was hard to see this in the photo.

2. The interior hallway ceilings were covered in acoustic (cottage cheese type) coating. Some areas still had the shiny sparkles in it.

3. There was some tiki style ornamental railing on the interior stair cases.

I just got a leed on a second tiki restaurant in Stockton that was down the street from the islander in 1969 so I'm off on another adventure.

happy hunting!
abstractiki