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Tiki Central / Locating Tiki / Bali Hai Apartments, Stockton, CA (apartments)

Post #485192 by abstractiki on Fri, Sep 25, 2009 11:08 PM

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I dug up this bit of info from the Stockton newspaper "The Record". Note the Bali Hai Moai in the picture.


Record Graphic

By Michael Fitzgerald
Record Staff Writer
October 21, 2007 12:00 AM

"There are some peculiar things in this town. I realized this when compiling last week's "Seven Wonders of Stockton" story. These oddities are the leftovers of that story, too quirky to fit any category.

Yet they are unique parts of the city - and more fun to talk about than the mortgage meltdown. So here goes: The Seven Oddest Things in Stockton.

Bali Hai head
Developer Alex Spanos got his construction career off to a tiki start with the Bali Hai Apartments. The complex boasts a South Seas motif with palm trees, lava "luau pit" and, solemnly guarding the entrance, a two-ton stone tiki god. A bit of Easter Island in the Central Valley."