Tahitian Lanai/Papeete Bar, Honolulu, HI (restaurant) - Locating Tiki

PR Phillip Roberts Tiki Socialite OAHU/Seattle Joined: Sep 09, 2003 Posts: 1701	PR Phillip Roberts Posted posted on Wed, Dec 8, 2010 2:44 PM On 2010-12-07 16:41, Sabu The Coconut Boy wrote: I couldn't help notice how that Ed Brownlee-copy tiki above is very similar to this tiki from the Luau in Miami: I wonder if it was inspired by the Brownlee tiki as well. Maybe from the Tahitian Lanai menu. Very quite possible Sabu. Wonderful image... heres another swell scene from the lot. Here's Brownlee pounding away at the Waikikian detailing the pole. Bad quality scan of a microfilm from the Advertiser 1955 insert Hawaiian Holiday. (I tried the newspaper's archive off but they couldn't locate...)and a couple of bad photgraphs Waikiki Tiki; Art, History, and Photographs. Available now from Bess Press Hawaii. [ Edited by: Phillip Roberts 2010-12-08 14:53 ]

On 2010-12-07 16:41, Sabu The Coconut Boy wrote:
I couldn't help notice how that Ed Brownlee-copy tiki above is very similar to this tiki from the Luau in Miami:

I wonder if it was inspired by the Brownlee tiki as well. Maybe from the Tahitian Lanai menu.

Very quite possible Sabu. Wonderful image...

heres another swell scene from the lot. Here's Brownlee pounding away at the Waikikian detailing the pole. Bad quality scan of a microfilm from the Advertiser 1955 insert Hawaiian Holiday. (I tried the newspaper's archive off but they couldn't locate...)and a couple of bad photgraphs

Waikiki Tiki; Art, History, and Photographs.
Available now from Bess Press Hawaii.

[ Edited by: Phillip Roberts 2010-12-08 14:53 ]

Post #568091 by Phillip Roberts on Wed, Dec 8, 2010 2:44 PM