Post #814250 by MadDogMike on Sat, Nov 16, 2024 2:44 PM

A few things in El Tiki news;

El Tiki was included in BigBroTiki's book Palm Springs Tiki: Polynesia in the Desert. Beautiful book, thank you for including us Sven.

Also, I made a Ben Wilson/El Tiki tribute wall in my Tiki patio, Pele Bar. There are not many actual artifacts of the restaurant left, these are mostly recreated items that remind us of El Tiki. The wall is covered in faux Pecky Cypress with a neon sign over the patio door

This repaired and reconditioned palm Japanese Lantern carved by Ben in the 60s. Ben had a taxidermied iguana on the bar. It was old and faded so I painted this one to match.

We have a menu from El Tiki. I scanned front and back, had them printed on UV protected vinyl and framed them.

3D printed a couple pufferfish and netted them together to make a lamp.

Some netting, a Jenny Haniver, and an abalone shell

Several years ago I made some El Tiki tribute mugs (there were no mugs made for the restaurant originally). I though some of them would go good in a rack on this wall.

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