Apartments, (name unknown), Santa Monica, CA (apartments) - Locating Tiki

STCB Sabu The Coconut Boy Tiki Socialite Carson, California Joined: Aug 20, 2002 Posts: 2807	STCB Sabu The Coconut Boy Posted posted on Sun, Apr 28, 2013 7:34 PM Not sure if anyone has posted photos of this apartment complex yet - I wasn't able to find it on a search of past posts. A friend of a friend was moving and wanted to get rid of a vintage 3-band rattan sofa, so I was asked if I wanted it. I said, "sure", and drove out to Santa Monica to pick it up. Wouldn't you know the friend of a friend lived in this tiki apartment building I had never seen before. Just plain luck. It's a classic box-like apartment structure from the 1960s with no A-frame or courtyard, but some really nice bas-relief carved tiki panels on the front of the building. It also has a lava-rock wall on one side where the old mailbox used to be, plus a nice tropical garden out front, but no other tikis. Couldn't find a name of the apartment anywhere on the structure. Didn't find any other tikis but the ones in the front panel. There are stubby outrigger beams all the way around the roof, but they're in a state of decay. This part of Santa Monica has street after street of old apartment buildings, so it would make sense that there would be at least one tiki apartment hidden in there. It may be worth exploring the neighborhood to see if there are any others.

Not sure if anyone has posted photos of this apartment complex yet - I wasn't able to find it on a search of past posts.

A friend of a friend was moving and wanted to get rid of a vintage 3-band rattan sofa, so I was asked if I wanted it. I said, "sure", and drove out to Santa Monica to pick it up. Wouldn't you know the friend of a friend lived in this tiki apartment building I had never seen before. Just plain luck.

It's a classic box-like apartment structure from the 1960s with no A-frame or courtyard, but some really nice bas-relief carved tiki panels on the front of the building. It also has a lava-rock wall on one side where the old mailbox used to be, plus a nice tropical garden out front, but no other tikis. Couldn't find a name of the apartment anywhere on the structure. Didn't find any other tikis but the ones in the front panel. There are stubby outrigger beams all the way around the roof, but they're in a state of decay.

This part of Santa Monica has street after street of old apartment buildings, so it would make sense that there would be at least one tiki apartment hidden in there. It may be worth exploring the neighborhood to see if there are any others.

Post #675892 by Sabu The Coconut Boy on Sun, Apr 28, 2013 7:34 PM