Tiki Finds - Collecting Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Mon, Nov 22, 2010 10:08 AM Cool, good deal. Here is the long-gone Mai Kai sign in all its carved glory in 1965, when they had their big expansion: ...together with a caption in the humorous style of the material I published already in Tiki Modern. Gotta love it! Two observations about the black velvet: It does not seem to be painted, but drawn onto the velvet with paint marker pens? And the other poles in it display some American Indian totem pole features :D : A master piece it ain't, but a rare curiosity of historic American Tiki style. [ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2010-11-22 10:14 ]

Cool, good deal.
Here is the long-gone Mai Kai sign in all its carved glory in 1965, when they had their big expansion:

...together with a caption in the humorous style of the material I published already in Tiki Modern. Gotta love it!

Two observations about the black velvet:

It does not seem to be painted, but drawn onto the velvet with paint marker pens?
And the other poles in it display some American Indian totem pole features :D :

A master piece it ain't, but a rare curiosity of historic American Tiki style.

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2010-11-22 10:14 ]

Post #566063 by bigbrotiki on Mon, Nov 22, 2010 10:08 AM