Post #734407 by Fez Moai on Mon, Jan 5, 2015 6:13 PM

Since I read Sven's Tiki Pop book, I've been having lots of Tiki dreams. They usually entail me going back in time somehow and trying to find out where the nearest tiki joint is at so that I can go and hang out. Last night, I visited a restaurant called the Aku Aku (not the Vegas one, it's a dream), and it had two A frames in the front, a bit rundown, and a big black Moai off to the side. I went in and the restaurant was on the first floor and the bar was on the second, so I made my way up the steps quickly. I asked about their mugs, but they only had generic ones for sale and the cool ones with the name on them were not. I was so disappointed. Crazy Al was up there carving wood, which I thought was cool. A dream with a cameo appearance.
Last week I found a Kono Hawaii ashtray from the defunct Santa Ana restaurant and the same night I had a dream that I went there. Never having gone there in real life, it seems my imagination filled in the blanks for me.