Post #634506 by bigbrotiki on Mon, Apr 30, 2012 9:43 PM

Darnit, I am gonna be on a TV job in the Alps then... I love the Park Plaza! I first went in there in 1986, as a gaffer on "Slamdance" - damn was I skinny then!:

I saw Korla Pandit on the big pipe organ there in the early 90s, and in Nov. 95, it was the venue for EXOTICON:

"Venice, Calif.'s Otto von Stroheim (no relation to the famed film director) co-edits Tiki News, another tiki zine. Tiki News recently produced Exoticon, a convention of tiki art and exotic music fanciers held in L.A. last November at the Park Plaza Hotel. The event drew 1,500 people to hear several "exotic music" performers, particularly tiki cult favorite Combustible Edison reinterpreting the heavy-marimba sound that the much-imitated musician Martin Denny popularized."

...quoted from THIS article:

http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/01.04.96/tiki-9601.html

Now THERE'S a blast from the past!