Post #67451 by bigbrotiki on Fri, Jan 2, 2004 9:08 PM

Great project!
-I waded into the fenced off property from the lagoon after it had closed, but there was a guard, so I could not dig too deep. And when the auction happened, I was long mainland locked...but at least I got to stay there two years before and see the old timers play at the bar.

I wonder where a.) the great modernist carved Tiki panels behind the Tahitian Lanai Bar are now, and b.) this painting I saw in one room, of a romantic beach with an outrigger and a Wahine, but the "native hut" was actually the trademark hyperbolic parabloid lobby A-frame of the Waikikian...soooo coool! I had to use all my ethical reasoning to not break into that room! Where is that masterpiece now?

I now own (purchased post-auction!) a Marquesan Tiki barstool, a nightstand handle carved with the lobby A-frame, and a set of those Tiki cut outs. They used to be set asymetrically in the panels of the hotel rooms' Shoji doors, and when closed at night, the flickering Tiki torches in the garden would make a ghostly shadow play out of them. Laying on the bed, listening to Arthur Lyman (on the CD player), watching the Tiki masks dance in the torchlight, it was heaven.

There are some very nice postcards of the A-frame lobby, you need those on your site. Barney Davis had his Leeteg Gallery in there at one point.