Luau, Mexico City, Mexico (restaurant) - Locating Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Sat, Jan 23, 2010 3:18 PM Sorry, but I do not have enough photographic memory storage left for Chinese icons, it's all taken up by Tiki representations. :D I agree about the Luau font, and have to concede that I was simplifying the facts a little. While the left Tiki is 100% Trader Vic logo Tiki, the fact that the one on the right almost looks like a photographic reproduction, and that, though my photo of it in the BOT has spawned a whole generation of take-offs in every medium possible... ...I actually have never seen a photo of the Tiki in situ at The Luau in Beverly Hills, only this menu illustration... ...which in conjunction with my Luau/Hanalei research made me realize its origin. So how did the Luau in Mexico city acquire an image of it? Well, it is possible that they actually owned that Tiki, since the carver (I have to ask Bob and Leroy for his name again) made several versions of this guy, here is one that was found up North (in Seattle?): Looking at it now, this one looks even closer to the Luau matchbook rendition then the Steve Crane one. Damn, I have disproven myself once again! :) [ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2010-01-24 08:00 ]

Sorry, but I do not have enough photographic memory storage left for Chinese icons, it's all taken up by Tiki representations. :D

I agree about the Luau font, and have to concede that I was simplifying the facts a little. While the left Tiki is 100% Trader Vic logo Tiki, the fact that the one on the right almost looks like a photographic reproduction, and that, though my photo of it in the BOT has spawned a whole generation of take-offs in every medium possible...

...I actually have never seen a photo of the Tiki in situ at The Luau in Beverly Hills, only this menu illustration...

...which in conjunction with my Luau/Hanalei research made me realize its origin. So how did the Luau in Mexico city acquire an image of it? Well, it is possible that they actually owned that Tiki, since the carver (I have to ask Bob and Leroy for his name again) made several versions of this guy, here is one that was found up North (in Seattle?):

Looking at it now, this one looks even closer to the Luau matchbook rendition then the Steve Crane one. Damn, I have disproven myself once again! :)

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2010-01-24 08:00 ]

Post #506455 by bigbrotiki on Sat, Jan 23, 2010 3:18 PM