Tropical Hut, Chicago, IL (restaurant) - Locating Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Wed, Feb 3, 2016 6:22 AM Oooh, bad lighting for those photos, the (kinda naive) mural is totally washed out. The place might have looked good in mood lighting. Can you make out the design on the placemats if you zoom in? The napkins could be in a generic pattern… As you probably noticed, that A-frame was taken from the classic "suggestive pomegranate" Trader Vic's bottle label: …but what is really funny is that they added a Kahiki-style entrance door!: Oh the mysteries of the Tiki transmission tradition! P.S.: Could you zoom in on those 3 wall line drawings of (presumably) natives, also? [ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2016-02-03 06:24 ]

Oooh, bad lighting for those photos, the (kinda naive) mural is totally washed out. The place might have looked good in mood lighting. Can you make out the design on the placemats if you zoom in? The napkins could be in a generic pattern…

As you probably noticed, that A-frame was taken from the classic "suggestive pomegranate" Trader Vic's bottle label:

…but what is really funny is that they added a Kahiki-style entrance door!:

Oh the mysteries of the Tiki transmission tradition!

P.S.: Could you zoom in on those 3 wall line drawings of (presumably) natives, also?

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2016-02-03 06:24 ]

Post #758287 by bigbrotiki on Wed, Feb 3, 2016 6:22 AM