Post #72157 by bigbrotiki on Fri, Jan 23, 2004 8:16 PM

Ha! I'm done with combing for my all-over-the-place slides. All in all I found 20, I don't think there are any more:

I photographed there in January of '92, and went back because I wanted to try again in Sept '93.
It was one of those places that looked like it had been chock full of Tikis once, but the few left were hard to shoot. They were in shady spots with bright sun as a background, which is death especially when the Tikis are black!
Your tall one was the only one left brown. I have some nice shots of him in situ, holding up the A-frame of the pool hut (actually the iron post inside him did). The rec room bar next to him had not been rethatched since the 60s, but that gave it that delapidated urban archological touch.
The pool was nice, one of the few places I have ever seen where the waterfall was still functional, the water fell from like 5 feet high into the pool, very cool.

The whole compound was lushly overgrown, but because of that the regular shingle roofed bungalows did not stand out architecurally, so I only took close ups of the signs, with little or no surrounding elements. I have:
YOURS, "Tradewinds","Snug Harbour", and "Sacred Falls" (which is on page 218 upper right corner of the BOT). Didn't shoot "Kona Kai" because there were tons of places with that name.

Your black Tiki stood up front on the lawn at the wall, the only one visible from the street. It already had rot in his cheek in '92! The fact that the seller mixed it up with the mailbox Tiki tells me that that one also has survived, wonder who has it now. My picture of it is unfortunately too dark, you have to hold the slide into the sun to see any detail.
I also found a mock up page with a couple of prints from those slide that I had used in my first book mock up, all cut and paste with handwritten captions! I will send you a color xerox of it, and since I don't know which slides you want to print besides that, I am willing to send you the originals (since I know you). Personal message me your address (and e-mail again...)