Post #564855 by naugatiki on Sat, Nov 13, 2010 7:16 AM

I’ve always wanted to see one of those carved desks close up and am impressed at how elaborate the carving looks. I was wandering around the hotel about a week before the auction and remember seeing the parking lot askew with all these desks from the rooms in several rows but didn’t have the foresight of going in for a closer look thinking they were just plain old desks, ah regrets. Luckily I waved down a manager and asked about the tiki lamps in the rooms and he took me to one being used to store them with those horrible non tropical lampshades. A few of the employees took some as souvenirs but I was able to procure 7 of them for a sweet deal. I was driving a Honda Elite moped at the time and with 3 in the basket 2 on the floor board and balancing one on my lap I was quite a sight putting along Kalakala Blvd.