Trader Dick's , Sparks, NV (restaurant) - Locating Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Thu, Jul 4, 2013 1:14 PM I was there last...must have been more than 20 years ago, don't think the guy was talking about me. Back then I was in search of "authentic" vintage Tiki Bars, and though I liked the big Guanko Tikis they still had, I didn't like the 70s/80s Vegas update parts with all the mirrors and brass and fake stained glass. But now.... SAVE TRADER DICK'S !!! Back then I really loved Fresno for its old Vegas style signage, everything was on a smaller scale, but it was still THERE ! I was on a shoot and my grips and I liberated a Tiki from behind a closed-down Chinese restaurant - it is still on my porch today. I was not as zealous a researcher then so I have no idea what the name of that place was once.

I was there last...must have been more than 20 years ago, don't think the guy was talking about me. Back then I was in search of "authentic" vintage Tiki Bars, and though I liked the big Guanko Tikis they still had, I didn't like the 70s/80s Vegas update parts with all the mirrors and brass and fake stained glass. But now.... SAVE TRADER DICK'S !!!

Back then I really loved Fresno for its old Vegas style signage, everything was on a smaller scale, but it was still THERE ! I was on a shoot and my grips and I liberated a Tiki from behind a closed-down Chinese restaurant - it is still on my porch today. I was not as zealous a researcher then so I have no idea what the name of that place was once.

Post #684632 by bigbrotiki on Thu, Jul 4, 2013 1:14 PM