Post #768213 by bigbrotiki on Sun, Sep 4, 2016 11:28 PM

On 2016-03-20 21:23, mike and marie wrote:
Also for completeness, some shots of the interior when it was still a restaurant, circa 1989 (from Loverboy). They renamed it "Tiki Joe's" for the film ... a lot of big lamps and lights in the interiors, which give it the look. Also a tiki from the back of the building that we haven't seen before, and there's an area in the lobby with a big interesting tiki guy, a volcano that lights, and a hula girl mannequin:

The odd thing is that the interior looks like a set - especially compared to the Dallas interiors. Too many bamboo/rattan wall pieces, with no Tiki columns, too many palm fronts hanging about. All the Tikis, the lamps and the mannequin were rentals from Oceanic Arts, and then they got a bunch peacock chairs and rattan furniture to fill the space.

My guess is that they shot the film on location, but the restaurant had already been closed and denuded of all of its decor, and they brought in a truckload of O.A. props.