Kon Tiki Ports, Sheraton Chicago Hotel, Chicago , IL (restaurant) - Locating Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Wed, Jun 13, 2012 10:51 PM Nice pic. This must have been taken just before Stephen Crane sold the Luau, it's the same year. I have no idea if he sold it with all his franchise interests, or if by then these had been taken over by the individual hotels... Goes to show how intact still many of these places were before the decade of destruction, the 80s. But it is no surprise that hotels eventually change their "look" when they change owners. I do wonder however about the frequency of that happening nowadays: Are the hotel chains dealing amongst each other and are their losses converted to winnings somehow when they get rid of a location, and a "competitor" takes it over? It seems like a game of rotating chairs sometimes. Another observation is that the 70s photography fad of the starlight filter is unbecoming for a Tiki lounge, it just looks wrong.

Nice pic. This must have been taken just before Stephen Crane sold the Luau, it's the same year. I have no idea if he sold it with all his franchise interests, or if by then these had been taken over by the individual hotels...

Goes to show how intact still many of these places were before the decade of destruction, the 80s. But it is no surprise that hotels eventually change their "look" when they change owners. I do wonder however about the frequency of that happening nowadays: Are the hotel chains dealing amongst each other and are their losses converted to winnings somehow when they get rid of a location, and a "competitor" takes it over? It seems like a game of rotating chairs sometimes.

Another observation is that the 70s photography fad of the starlight filter is unbecoming for a Tiki lounge, it just looks wrong.

Post #640469 by bigbrotiki on Wed, Jun 13, 2012 10:51 PM