Post #589487 by tikicoma on Tue, May 17, 2011 12:00 AM

aloha, I just got done talking to Gale's oldest son (he's 76) and he told me that he remembers that his dad was carving and painting when he (the son) was 5 years old (1940). He also told me that his never worked for anyone else. What spurred me on was this,

I saw this mask last weekend on a house across from a burger joint I started going to so I knocked on the door to ask about it. The gal who answered turned out to have been a former manager of the Tiki apartments (opened in '64). She sold it to me and said they found 2 masks under the apts and these "placks" (that they put back up}

under the apts next door, also owned by the same people. Jerry who owns Jungle Fever Exotics nursery told me that his parents also managed the Tiki's early in the '80's (when I was living at the Polynesia Village apts) and that similar masks were on all the apt doors. I asked Gale's son and he said his dad did these and also their tiki's (maybe unsure about the tikis there and also (maybe) at the Hawaiian Village apts in Lakewood).

and this tiki that has the same face carved on both sides! (it has a very thick trunk and is bigger than it looks in the pic)

The bar stool that the gal is sitting on in the photo I first added to this thread is still in the possession of the son. I'll be talking to him this weekend and asked to see any carvings/photos he and his family can gather (he did lots of carvings that weren't tiki)
So, I picked up this cedar tiki (about 5 feet tall) 14 years ago now I'm wondering if it was also a Haner?

thanks for looking, tikicoma