Post #605277 by bigbrotiki on Fri, Sep 2, 2011 7:32 PM

Here are some pieces to the puzzle, from the O.A. archives.

Bob and Leroy went out there once, and Leroy made some renderings:

The reality lagged a bit behind:

We are looking at the entrance to Lake Loreen here...

Though Leroy did the sketches...

...we don't know who made this Tiki:

...or where and what these structures were for. They don't look as solid as what Uncle Darrell was building...

Lake Waikiki was supposedly adjacent to Lake Loreen:

...and was pretty far along as a project:

With everybody scratching their heads that the backers apparently came from Hawaii:

By the time Lake Wainani was being built, the Polynesian theme had fallen out of fashion...

...and except for the name there was no reference to Tiki style left, and a more functional - and boring - reality had set in:

Thanks to Amy and Ray and Buzzy and Ben and all involved for bringing back the magic of Polynesian fantasy back to the Newberry desert oases!