Palm Beach Hawaiian Inn to be bulldozed - General Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Sat, Sep 27, 2014 2:51 AM A crying shame. It must have been a great place in its heyday: Being wedged in between condo high rises, it reminded me of the Waikikian in Honululu, dwarfed by the Hilton and Ilikai towers - a place from another time. With that much money spent for the property, they never planned to to renovate. No way to get that kind of return out of the existing place. When I was putting together the Tiki Pop exhibit, I was going through the Quai Branly museum archives looking for A-frame architecture examples. I was thrilled to find a picture of a miniature model of an original Papua New Guinea meeting house that matched the Hawaiian's sloping roof line: I requested it, and was able to display it together with Hawaiian brochure. At least the place has now been documented in my Tiki Pop catalog:

A crying shame. It must have been a great place in its heyday:

Being wedged in between condo high rises, it reminded me of the Waikikian in Honululu, dwarfed by the Hilton and Ilikai towers - a place from another time. With that much money spent for the property, they never planned to to renovate. No way to get that kind of return out of the existing place.

When I was putting together the Tiki Pop exhibit, I was going through the Quai Branly museum archives looking for A-frame architecture examples. I was thrilled to find a picture of a miniature model of an original Papua New Guinea meeting house that matched the Hawaiian's sloping roof line:

I requested it, and was able to display it together with Hawaiian brochure. At least the place has now been documented in my Tiki Pop catalog:

Post #728505 by bigbrotiki on Sat, Sep 27, 2014 2:51 AM