The BEST private tiki backyard-close to where I grew up! - General Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Sun, Mar 7, 2004 6:15 AM Wow, what a find! Ever since I started my research I was aware of the fact that there are (were) backyards like these all over Southern California, but HOW do you find them? One can't knock on everybody's door with a picture of a Tiki and ask "Do you have THIS in your backyard?" This is definately the best example I've ever come across, better even than "Herman the German's" yard (who had painted his pidgeons to look like tropical birds). A lot of O.A. stuff, but also carvings from unknown sources. Laney, I wonder if you could be my ambassador here, and bring the Lady a copy of the BOT. I will send you one (or give you one later if you can get one in your vicinity). Her ill husband will enjoy the hell out of it, and then you can explain that the author is interested in photographing their Shangri-la for posterity. No one knows what will happen to it once he kicks the bucket, with the off spring often not being appreciative of their parents' taste, or maybe the house changing owners, and presto, in a few years all this could be gone. A later step would be to ask if they have any photos of their backyard Luaus from the 60s, that is another thing hard to come by. Oh if I think of all the great snapshots that are out there, and no way to find them!

Wow, what a find! Ever since I started my research I was aware of the fact that there are (were) backyards like these all over Southern California, but HOW do you find them? One can't knock on everybody's door with a picture of a Tiki and ask "Do you have THIS in your backyard?"
This is definately the best example I've ever come across, better even than "Herman the German's" yard (who had painted his pidgeons to look like tropical birds).
A lot of O.A. stuff, but also carvings from unknown sources.
Laney, I wonder if you could be my ambassador here, and bring the Lady a copy of the BOT. I will send you one (or give you one later if you can get one in your vicinity). Her ill husband will enjoy the hell out of it, and then you can explain that the author is interested in photographing their Shangri-la for posterity. No one knows what will happen to it once he kicks the bucket, with the off spring often not being appreciative of their parents' taste, or maybe the house changing owners, and presto, in a few years all this could be gone.

A later step would be to ask if they have any photos of their backyard Luaus from the 60s, that is another thing hard to come by. Oh if I think of all the great snapshots that are out there, and no way to find them!

Post #79688 by bigbrotiki on Sun, Mar 7, 2004 6:15 AM