Post #605224 by Bay Park Buzzy on Fri, Sep 2, 2011 11:37 AM

The Mojave crew(Victor and Crazy Kelly Osbourne), patched all the bullet holes in the boat and gave it new life:

Newberry's Tiki past now merges with Newberry's Tiki future

In close proximity to where the boat was found, an old rotten direction sign was unearthed:

Lake something, can't really read it

No big deal around here, because every property has either a lake, or dry lake on it.

However, reading where the arrows point gives the urban tiki archeologist shudders

"Mt Pele" Hmmmm...sounds kinda Hawaiian, maybe. At least it now deserves more investigating.

More places the sign points to
"Turtlehead Cove","Waikikian Cove", and "Bora Bora Bay"

"Fisherman's Wharf" and "Hawaii-????"

"Lake Wainine"

Turns out the back of the sign was painted as well:

Looks like it was the old sign marking the location of "Lake Waikiki"

Let's see what we can find out about Lake Wakiki

Turns out that in the collection of archtectural rendings, there is a concept map for a place called:

Here's what was originally envisioned for Waikiki Lake

Looks like four square parcels, each with it's own lake with a canal connecting all the lakes together. It looks like the bottom right corner lot was the only one planned for development. There's a Aframe clubhouse with recreation facilities and a marina in the three subdivision lots on the right lower corner. The rest of the lots look like private lake side residences

Just to get an idea of where we are, here's a google maps view of the Lake waikiki, Lake Loreen, and Lake Wainine area

Lake Loreen is pretty much dead center. You can see the contours of the former lake beds. On the upper right is Lake waikiki, and lower left is Lake Wanine. The "H" shaped lake across the street from Lake Loreen is currently a burned out and abandoned property. If I ever win the lottery, I'll buy it and make my own Polynesian desert paradise come to life.

Back to Lake Waikiki, we see the google maps view of this:

Looks like in the rendering of the four lots planned for the lake, only one of them got underway.

Here's a closer look at the developed site from google maps:

Mauka Rd and Lani Kai are two of the streets on its perimeter. You can see lines on this picture where the lots are subdivided. You can also see the contours of the lake edge, the island mountain, and the canal that would lead to the other lakes.

Check out how closely the layout of the original site plan coincides with the google photo view:

Here's the site today

The corner where the old sign once sat. It's on nthe corner of Troy and Lani Kai:

You can see a dirt mound in the center. that's the island and where they put the dirt when they dug out the lake.

This was the lot where the Aframe would have been.

It actually has plumbing on it. It's the only site that has any permanent facilities

The marina on the rendering is in front of the tree, and continues on to left of it:

Corner of Troy and Mauka rd.

This would have been the main entrance area. A frame clubhouse on left, Marina and rec area on right

Best view of island from residental lot off of Lani Kai rd

Undeveloped lot just north of Lake waikiki that was part of the original concept

Taken from Lani kai and Troy

The other two undeveloped lots to the east of the developed part oflake waikiki

Neighbors say the fence was put in about 10 years ago, and there's been no activity there for 3 years or so. The fence is new looking and goes around the entire parcel and also divides all the subdivided lots. Each lot has a sliding gate access to the perimeter roads. A search on the property lists a homeowners association. Looks like the property was legally subdivived and being prepared for sale when the project was halted.

Another similar residential lake development in the area was designed by the same people and was actually finished, and that lake was called
"Lake Wainine"

Here's an overhead view of lake Wainine as it is today:

It's man made lake with surrounding residental lots, just like Lake Waikiki was supposed to be

Since it was so close I went to check out Lake Wainine

here's the curent sign outside of it:

Oahu and Maui roads define some of its borders

Here's a glimpse of Lake wainini


(taken from upper left of overhead shot, on Ft Cady Rd)

Not much, if any existing polypop stuff around there now(if ever?). It's mostly cowboy/western now. there were a couple palm farms there:

Here's more typical current Lake Wainine decor:

There are a few developments like Lake Wainine around in Newberry Springs. Another one is Lake Jodie. Lake Jodie was made by the same people who made all the other lakes I've mentioned here on this post.
Here's Lake Jody now:

It bears a striking similarity to the plans of the never made Lake Aloha(Perhaps it was made, I just haven't found the footprint or remains of it yet):

Add one island, and it's pretty close match to lake Jody

A piece of the Lake Aloha concept drawing brings us full circle to the original focus of this thread:

The "Tiki-Bird Lounge...."

And i'll close with this detail from one of the many Polynesian Lake inspired site plans:

Too bad that part was never made!

Buzzy Out!