Post #64347 by Basement Kahuna on Wed, Dec 10, 2003 9:38 PM

Here are some tasty vintage tiki tidbits from my neck of the woods (the Southeastern U.S.)..First the UNBELIEVEABLE Hawaiian Luau at the Fontainbleau Hotel in New Orleans...this room is just PACKED AND STACKED to the rafters the way I like'em. Second is the obscure card of "The Tiki", the resident tour boat at Tiki Gardens in Indian Rocks Beach, leaving the dock for another tour of the artificial Eden! Next we have three cards that I adore just for their campiness...The Yankee Clipper Polynesian Room in the early days of Ft. Lauderdale, when it was owned by the Gills Hotel chain, (check out those cheesy plastic leis and the fantabulous Aloha shirts on the band!) and two views after it was purchased by the Sheraton chain...The Polynesian Room show as it was then (again check out those goofy bass drum heads!) and a view of the exclusive "Luau Buffet, complete with a Polynesian warrior on the buffet made entirely out of chicken! (Look closely between the chefs). And last but not least a view of Daytona's Aku Tiki Inn, sporting one of the finest tiki signs ever in existence (it still remains to this day, but with only the Moai image and a boring new logo)