Post #732700 by tikicoma on Sat, Dec 6, 2014 3:45 AM

Before Briggs built apartments he was building housing developments. This is his Rancho Vista model home from 1956 in Lakewood, WA just south of Tacoma, from the moai by the fireplace it looks like he had already been bitten by the tiki bug.

In the same general area is his Hawaiian Village apts. shown in BOT with what is believed to be a Barney West moai.

Unfortunately now the moai is gone. They cut short the bamboo to expose more of the moai and soon discovered the base had rotted away and was in danger of falling. From what I've seen all the tikis that Briggs placed at his apartments were just stuck in the soil, soil that around here can remain wet for months at a time. I asked if they knew who removed it to see if it could be salvaged and they told me that the workers who removed it had cut it to pieces with a chainsaw on site. :(

This happened about nine months ago but in the last few years all the tikis at the Kona Kai apts in Auburn were removed, one of the two tikis at the Diamond Head apts toppled and was removed (the other had its jaw drop off) and now this is gone.

aloha, tikicoma