Post #801934 by tikicoma on Wed, Mar 16, 2022 9:46 PM

So I zoomed in on its details...

Its Mbulu Ugulu and roof finial...

The carved beams around the entrance...

And under the entrance what appears to be a fernwood tiki! When the Tiki first opened the Seattle Worlds Fair had ended only months before... the '62 worlds fair had a bunch of fernwood tikis from just a few feet tall to giant sized... so who knows?

Then a month later I came across this photo from 1969 showing that it was a two story building. I had heard that upstairs was the lounge where the musicians then later the dancers performed while the lower level had the restaurant...

In 1978 a fire totally destroyed the building... it had been the Peking restaurant for just a few years but a Korean gang running a protection racket torched it. You can still see the Witco carved entrance going up in flames in the lower righthand corner...

that's all for now.

[ Edited by tikicoma on 2022-03-16 21:57:07 ]

[ Edited by tikicoma on 2022-03-17 14:03:02 ]