Post #640930 by TikiG on Mon, Jun 18, 2012 5:04 PM

You wanna talk about ironic? I grew up on Mauna Lane in Huntington Beach and my neighborhoods' streets all had Polynesian names i.e. Halawa, Maikai, Pua, Fiji, Samoa, Pago Pago etc.

This neighborhood is within the Brookhurst St, Yorktown Ave, Ward St, and Garfield Ave grid.

I can say no "tiki" archetural stylings we would expect are to be found here, even in their original configurations (circa 1961.)

We did have the small A-frame roof peak, but it wasn't "tiki" and it served as a crawlspace as ATP stated above.

All the tiki trappings I remember in this neighborhood growing up were added later by the individual homeowners and even then that would have been simple adornments around a usually kidney-shaped pool or at best a Polynesian themed rumpus room. A carved tiki here and there and tiki torches mainly...then the 70s came along and the horrible wrought-iron/velvet furniture era set in - the "south pacific" motifs became fodder for the garbage can.