Post #609 by Tiki_Bong on Thu, Apr 11, 2002 9:13 AM

Last week my family and I went on our annual trip to Tiki Mecca a.k.a. Honolulu. While at the International Marketplace, my daughter went to the second level looking for the restroom and spotted an outdoor sign reading 'Trader Vic's Drinks'. Upon further examination I found the old Trader Vic's restaurant on the second level. I'd been there with my dad in about 1974 to see Rip Taylor (my dad loved Tikianna). Anyway, it's now the maintenance department building for the International Marketplace (how sad).The building still has concrete tikis on one side and a wood tiki to the right of the front door. For a brief moment I thought of conducting a clandestine tiki rescue by grabbing the wood tiki on the front but then decided I didn't want to spend my vacation in the pokey. I asked a couple of maintenance workers if they would sell it to me for $20 but they didn't want to take the chance either. I will post some pictures I took of the building and its surronding tikis as soon as I can. The experience left me a bit melancholy but hey, time moves on doesn't it (they shoot horses don't they?)