Tiki Central / Locating Tiki / Mai Kai, Fort Lauderdale, FL (restaurant)
Post #760130 by Swanky on Fri, Mar 4, 2016 5:56 AM
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This image is of interest for what you see in the background. This photo was taken in the Garden seating section. If you sit in front of the stage today, that is still known as "Garden". At this time it was an open air area. There were lots of palms and live plants in there they swapped out weekly. But behind Bob Thornton you see glass. Those large sliding glass doors were on both sides of the dining room. You are looking at Samoa, but they also enclosed Hawaii, Oahu, Tahiti, and all the rooms. This way, those areas were air conditioned and the main room was open air and had large lauhala matting punkha fans overhead making a constant breeze. A stream ran through the whole restaurant starting at the large waterfall out front, through Molokai and Garden and back out to the feeder pond out front. More details in my book coming out in August!
[ Edited by: Swanky 2016-03-22 07:52 ] |
