MCM neighborhood tiki in Tacoma - General Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Sat, Dec 6, 2014 9:20 AM On 2014-12-06 03:45, tikicoma wrote: 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. As pictured in Tiki Pop: (Thanks to Sabu and DC for the above image!) Time marches on without mercy. Freestanding apartment Tikis are becoming extinct as their restaurant counterparts did many years earlier. I count my blessings for starting to photograph them as early (actually late) as the 1990s. In the next years, none will be left, and the world might have never known about this art form.

On 2014-12-06 03:45, tikicoma wrote:
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.

As pictured in Tiki Pop:

(Thanks to Sabu and DC for the above image!)

Time marches on without mercy. Freestanding apartment Tikis are becoming extinct as their restaurant counterparts did many years earlier. I count my blessings for starting to photograph them as early (actually late) as the 1990s. In the next years, none will be left, and the world might have never known about this art form.

Post #732707 by bigbrotiki on Sat, Dec 6, 2014 9:20 AM