Post #508604 by Sabu The Coconut Boy on Tue, Feb 2, 2010 5:48 PM

I don't know if I'd say "hideous". Just not tiki in the slightest anymore. And thus probably a hard sell for any tiki enthusiasts. Their market is elsewhere now.

From the website's history page:

So, the Tiki passed into history, filed perhaps under Camp, and was reborn as the much more modern and amiable Stanford Terrace Inn,"

I always get irritated when something as unique and full of character as this gets filed under "Camp":

And something more generic like this is preferred:

But I totally understand it. The place was falling into disrepair in the 80s and something new had to be built in its place. I'll give the owner credit that the new hotel has a lot of the design elements of classic 50s & 60s institutional architecture that I like, but there are a lot of modernist schools and libraries and office buildings from the 60s still out there with a similar feel. So few Modernist Polynesian-Pop buildings left. But maybe that's why we appreciate them so much.

I think a display-case in the lobby with old Tiki Inn artifacts would be a good addition though.

[ Edited by: Sabu The Coconut Boy 2010-02-02 17:58 ]