Post #736691 by Jungle John on Wed, Feb 4, 2015 8:31 PM

Here's my throwback Thursday offering:

These are pics from 2003 (I finally found them!) and my early attempts to get the tiki-thing happening.

We had the "Hut"

And the "Lanai"

My first and last attempts at carving tikis from palm logs I found around the neighborhood in yard trash piles. I worked hard with the chainsaw, but I lacked the skill and finesse to get the results I wanted. They rotted quickly away in the Florida summers.

These are my fakey faux tikis made from paper mache covered with a thin fiberglass (the kind they use for surfboards). They rotted a little, but eventually attracted colonies of bees. Either the colonies got over crowded or the hives got "africanized", but the bees got very angry after a few years. I had to pay some guy to haul them away, bees and all.

The same tikis before they got moved. Also, the skinny one is a 4" pvc sewer pipe with foam eyes and face glued on. Not my best work, but carving tikis was out of the question at this point.

Here are some random 2004 vacation pics from Disney Worlds' Adventure-land and Polynesian Resort. The Polynesian Resort lobby waterfall was recently torn out. There was a great disturbance in the tiki force.

Here's a great find we made at "Big Lots" one summer, They had this great polypropylene tiki (I think its Roku). It lasted a while, but again, the plastic deteriorated. It finally got chucked out in the trash after an accident with a neighborhood bratty kid. I miss this one. But the tiki fad had kind of waned with us and we moved on to other things.

Finally, some Orlando putt-putt golf place: