Post #709061 by robotiki on Sat, Feb 22, 2014 6:40 AM

On 2014-02-22 01:01, ErichTroudt wrote:
Great pic.

What did he call it? did he refer to it as a tiki? A Moai? Was he into to polynesian decor?

We always referred to it as the Easter Island Barbeque Pit. My uncle Bob was quite an adventurer. He had a huge trimaran in his back yard for sailing around the world, also a building on railroad tracks which would move to reveal a very large telescope for his astronomy. I always got the impression he made the Moai after ones he has seen in person on one of his transoceanic journeys. Their house was decorated with other relics from his travels, but not anything else tiki that I can remember.

He built it himself, any plans he came up with himself. It was concrete troweled over a mesh covered rebar framework. The central hearth area may have had a red brick foundation. I don't know what happened to it after the house was sold.

Unrelated, my uncle's company helped build the surface running Nautilus for Disney's 20,000 Leagues.

Robotiki
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