Tiki Inn Motel, Palo Alto, CA (motel) - Locating Tiki

S stanfordterraceinn Member palo alto Joined: Aug 21, 2009 Posts: 2	S stanfordterraceinn Posted posted on Wed, Feb 3, 2010 5:17 PM On 2010-02-02 17:04, Tiki Shaker wrote: Your new sign hideous. Haha... funny. Or at least... honest. Sign of the times, so to speak. Huzzah for double entendres. I understand your position though... we at the property love the Tiki history so much. The current management group, who has had it about 20 years, wasn't responsible for the remodel... but I think they have done a great job running it. Barbara the GM has done a really great job with the colors and feel of the place, because of the architectural idiosynchrasies. On that flickr set I think there are some really old school shots of what they did... a terrible white and green motif. It was rough. But the other poster had a good point of the market... we are always enthralled with the history and really excited about it, and try to figure out how we might integrate it... we simply haven't come up with any great ideas. It's funny about Abstractiki's comments... we did think of doing Friday Aloha style shirts (I want to play some Martin Denny or Dome stuff with Lyman, etc) and having a special tiki fan rate... first night at "Tiki Rates" which would be something like mid 40's or so (eeeeek!) and second night at regular price. Not sure... but we really want to celebrate this. ABSTRACTIKI!!! thank you... I am passing those ideas along and getting answers to your questions. And JohnPaul - thanks for the phone shot. It is so different a time and place... the mural on the other side of the wall is pretty cool, but it's next to a starbucks and barbecues galore. So much changes.... it's nice to know our corner has stayed relatively the same. Stanford's new construction chased our Heron's away too... so that's disappointing as well. But with some of the ideas going on here, I think it looks a little brighter. You will be happy to know the GM is totally behind some sort of "Tiki Awarness" campaign. Thank you all for the comments and thoughts. I will be back! (But I promise not to annoy you.) Keep the conversation and discussion going... that's why they even have me online. For listening and learning from people like you! Thank you again, thanks for letting me be chatty, and Cheers! Sincerely, Michael at the Stanford Terrace Inn P.S. - I saw the old crew of Mystery Science Theatre 3000 at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco do a live session last night! They all sit there and riff about the wonderfully bad film. It was called "Danger On Tiki Island". http://www.cinematictitanic.com/showguide.php?showname=Danger_on_Tiki_Island It wasn't released under that name... the distributor made MST3K (now called Cinematic Titanic) change it because they were going to skewer it (as they do). Not sure if you enjoy that show, but it's always good for a laugh... and right up your alley!

On 2010-02-02 17:04, Tiki Shaker wrote:
Your new sign hideous.

Haha... funny. Or at least... honest. Sign of the times, so to speak. Huzzah for double entendres. I understand your position though... we at the property love the Tiki history so much. The current management group, who has had it about 20 years, wasn't responsible for the remodel... but I think they have done a great job running it. Barbara the GM has done a really great job with the colors and feel of the place, because of the architectural idiosynchrasies. On that flickr set I think there are some really old school shots of what they did... a terrible white and green motif. It was rough.

But the other poster had a good point of the market... we are always enthralled with the history and really excited about it, and try to figure out how we might integrate it... we simply haven't come up with any great ideas. It's funny about Abstractiki's comments... we did think of doing Friday Aloha style shirts (I want to play some Martin Denny or Dome stuff with Lyman, etc) and having a special tiki fan rate... first night at "Tiki Rates" which would be something like mid 40's or so (eeeeek!) and second night at regular price. Not sure... but we really want to celebrate this.

ABSTRACTIKI!!! thank you... I am passing those ideas along and getting answers to your questions. And JohnPaul - thanks for the phone shot. It is so different a time and place... the mural on the other side of the wall is pretty cool, but it's next to a starbucks and barbecues galore. So much changes.... it's nice to know our corner has stayed relatively the same. Stanford's new construction chased our Heron's away too... so that's disappointing as well. But with some of the ideas going on here, I think it looks a little brighter. You will be happy to know the GM is totally behind some sort of "Tiki Awarness" campaign.

Thank you all for the comments and thoughts. I will be back! (But I promise not to annoy you.) Keep the conversation and discussion going... that's why they even have me online. For listening and learning from people like you! Thank you again, thanks for letting me be chatty, and Cheers!

Sincerely,
Michael at the Stanford Terrace Inn

P.S. - I saw the old crew of Mystery Science Theatre 3000 at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco do a live session last night! They all sit there and riff about the wonderfully bad film. It was called "Danger On Tiki Island". http://www.cinematictitanic.com/showguide.php?showname=Danger_on_Tiki_Island It wasn't released under that name... the distributor made MST3K (now called Cinematic Titanic) change it because they were going to skewer it (as they do). Not sure if you enjoy that show, but it's always good for a laugh... and right up your alley!

Post #508802 by stanfordterraceinn on Wed, Feb 3, 2010 5:17 PM