KAHIKI Columbus, ohio tiki bar restaurant. Lee Henry, The catalog - Collecting Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Mon, Jan 31, 2011 2:30 AM X-L- ENT, I dare say! Look at that glorious mural! I used Mr. Ono's postcard already in my "Sound of Tiki" CD booklet, to illustrate my "Exotica music was a layered sound sensation for the ears like the tropical cocktails' tastes were on the tongue"-concept, but this one has got to go into a future book, please! You did a stellar color restauration job, amazing what still can be pulled out of that magenta wash! I would bring down the brightness a little, and make it a tad warmer, maybe, like so: (Though it is good to be sure that there are no art treasures hiding on the left side of the plant :)) Too bad I am not at home, where I could scan the slide I took at the Kahiki that shows that African mask -in a different location, that mural was long gone when I went there. That helicopter shot makes the place almost look like a model, with the people getting out of the car, and the cars looking like train model size -and that line of people at the entrance, all Preiser figures! :wink: Luckily I have the party table photo as a large size reversal film original. I'd like to point out that the luau pig on the table has the name "Kahiki" written on it in cocktail cherries! AND I have a scan here of the tattered cover of the food industry magazine "Institutions-Magazine of Mass Feeding/Mass Housing" (what an attractive title!) from the O.A. archives that shows the full shot of the fireplace. Their article "Polynesian Extravaganzas- An increasingly popular craze" was the only piece of media coverage I ever came across that did a multi-page report about the phenomenon in its own day:

X-L- ENT, I dare say! Look at that glorious mural! I used Mr. Ono's postcard already in my "Sound of Tiki" CD booklet, to illustrate my "Exotica music was a layered sound sensation for the ears like the tropical cocktails' tastes were on the tongue"-concept, but this one has got to go into a future book, please!

You did a stellar color restauration job, amazing what still can be pulled out of that magenta wash! I would bring down the brightness a little, and make it a tad warmer, maybe, like so:

(Though it is good to be sure that there are no art treasures hiding on the left side of the plant :))

Too bad I am not at home, where I could scan the slide I took at the Kahiki that shows that African mask -in a different location, that mural was long gone when I went there.

That helicopter shot makes the place almost look like a model, with the people getting out of the car, and the cars looking like train model size -and that line of people at the entrance, all Preiser figures! :wink:

Luckily I have the party table photo as a large size reversal film original. I'd like to point out that the luau pig on the table has the name "Kahiki" written on it in cocktail cherries!

AND I have a scan here of the tattered cover of the food industry magazine "Institutions-Magazine of Mass Feeding/Mass Housing" (what an attractive title!) from the O.A. archives that shows the full shot of the fireplace. Their article "Polynesian Extravaganzas- An increasingly popular craze" was the only piece of media coverage I ever came across that did a multi-page report about the phenomenon in its own day:

Post #573949 by bigbrotiki on Mon, Jan 31, 2011 2:30 AM