Pics of my personal Tiki Bar, a work in progress...

Some random pics from my personal Tiki Bar and collection...

Personal tiki bar??

Welcome to TC, that's quite an impressive space.

Thank you for the complement, a benefit to living in a small Midwestern town is space. The bad thing is a general lack of vintage Tiki items to be found. The property is an old 3 story hotel built in 1885. I live in attached property and use the space pictured for entertaining. I got into Tiki stuff a few years back and luckily have a great amount of space to show off my collection.

Here is a pic of the outside of the building, to give you an idea.

I notice you have a cash register - charge your friends?! LOL Cool space and quite an extensive booze collection!

Wow!

How awesome to have your own hotel and bar as your own personal living space! You should get all your friends together for a "The Shining" party at Halloween! Your bar has so much potential, you just need to keep on adding and adding to it as time and money allows. There's a whole lot of suppliers that will gladly ship stuff to you. Try looking up http://www.konakai.com and you'll find just about all of 'em! Also, our fellow T.C'er Smokin' Tiki's imports the coolest stuff that is affordable and better looking than the over-painted Phillippean junk that you find at most store chains. Good luck, and keep us posted!

I love that idea for a "the shining" party. I have a huge halloween party every year with a band and I think I will use that one. REDRUM will be the booze of choice, I assume?

You should change this sign to read "Mai Tai's, Zombies & Scorpion Bowls..." just a suggestion.

I thought I was looking at a public bar. Very impressive space!

Pronounced keh-NEE-kay

[ Edited by: kenike 2008-05-28 03:06 ]

Nice vibe to the place, Mike!

I was thinking "The Shining" too...that would be a great party theme. Nice job!!!

Mfachman, I think you have done a great job with this place, taken there is not much tiki to be found there.. I was just thinking, how interesting it would be to be driving along going somewhere and stopping here and finding this place you have made.I think it would be great to walk in and see it. This place has a little David Lynchish feel to it.

I like the Ceilings!

I am beyond jealous. That's an extremely cool spot.

Dina

Thanks for all the kind words, I will continue to add on and maybe post some more pics down the road.

Mahalo!
Facher

Here is a pic of one of my favorite items, a mounted sailfish. I haven't found a good place in the bar for it yet, so it is just hanging in the now defunct hotel office...

I had some time today so I snapped a few more pics...

more front room shots...

Backroom, game-room which is not quite as Tikified..(yet)

The front room ledge that I use to display my Tiki mugs and some celebrity 8x10s...

The back bar I made out of an old water bed headboard...

wow, that is so cool! i bet i know where all the annual family get-togethers are!

I remember seeing a show about small towns and people owning huge buildings in them, such a neat thing. on the show a family had a huge fifties-theme diner and a whole car collection in another building. Much like yours, it was just them in the diner, not a commercial venture. :)

Awesome space. Gonna be tough to fill it all up! Gotta name for it?

On 2008-06-24 16:03, Matt Reese wrote:
Awesome space. Gonna be tough to fill it all up! Gotta name for it?

The Hotel has been in my family since the 1950s, it would be hard for me to change the name, gotta stick with "Fachman's Hooper Inn" or risk being disowned. :)

Maybe just name the bar or lounge. Like I said before, great place. Kind of thing most people fantasize about owning.

On 2008-06-24 19:16, Matt Reese wrote:
Maybe just name the bar or lounge. Like I said before, great place. Kind of thing most people fantasize about owning.

Yeah that would work, I haven't given a name much thought. Any ideas?

Hillbilly Hide-a-Way would be my suggestion!

On 2008-06-25 10:29, Mongoloid wrote:
Hillbilly Hide-a-Way would be my suggestion!

Classy move...
I assume that you are implying that all Nebraskans are hillbillies? It is hard for me to accept an insult from the self proclaimed "Mongoloid", so I will simply suggest that perhaps you sir, are the ignorant one here.

Hi,

Very cool space, you could ad a little bit beige to the white pieces of the wall or give them a light blue finish, this would upgrade the room even more. and ad some fake palm threes, for more jungle.

Would love to see it for real!

On 2008-06-25 11:46, sanspeed wrote:
Hi,

Very cool space, you could ad a little bit beige to the white pieces of the wall or give them a light blue finish, this would upgrade the room even more. and ad some fake palm threes, for more jungle.

Would love to see it for real!

I am with you on painting the white walls, actually there are a bunch of painting projects that I could start. My wife says that we have to complete the remodeling in our attached apartment first. We live in an old steakhouse with a sunken bar, it has a lot of potential too, but that is a whole other topic. I also plan to add some thatch or something of that nature to the face of the shelf that wraps around the entire front room. I missed out on getting some awesome 8-10 foot fake palms when a local casino threw them out. I missed them by a day! Could have had them for nothing! They probably cost in the thousands when they were new, oh well can't win'em all, not a new concept with regards to the casino. :)

On 2008-05-27 15:53, Tiki Lee's wrote:
You should get all your friends together for a "The Shining" party at Halloween!

I was thinking that since the hotel is located in Nebraska, and Stephen King's "Children of the Corn" took place in Nebrasaka, that a Children of the Corn Halloween party would also be in order.

This will tell you just how small town Hooper, NE is. Click on this google maps link to Hooper, NE, click on the "Street View" link under the picture in the white bubble thing, and then hit the right arrow to scroll the picture clockwise to see the hotel.

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=Hooper%20Nebraska&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl

[ Edited by: joefla70 2008-06-25 12:58 ]

On 2008-06-25 12:56, joefla70 wrote:
This will tell you just how small town Hooper, NE is. Click on this google maps link to Hooper, NE, click on the "Street View" link under the picture in the white bubble thing, and then hit the right arrow to scroll the picture clockwise to see the hotel.

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=Hooper%20Nebraska&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl

[ Edited by: joefla70 2008-06-25 12:58 ]

Yep, it is pretty small, about 900 people. I didn't know they had street view up on it yet, that's cool. I work in Omaha, about 50 miles away, Omaha's population is around 500,000.

Hillbilly Hide-A-Way was suggested with tongue in cheek, obviously i can make fun of myself and refer to myself as Mongoloid. When we take ourselves to serious we forget the whole reason of why we are involved in this concept of escapism. That being said Hillbilly Hide-A-Way has a nice ring to it!

This is a real HillBilly (get it?).. now you have to laugh at that one!

On 2008-06-26 07:37, Mongoloid wrote:
Hillbilly Hide-A-Way was suggested with tongue in cheek, obviously i can make fun of myself and refer to myself as Mongoloid. When we take ourselves to serious we forget the whole reason of why we are involved in this concept of escapism. That being said Hillbilly Hide-A-Way has a nice ring to it!

No worries, sorry I blew up. :)

That's is an unbelievably giant space you have to work with. I can't believe that it's your "personal tiki bar". You have a lot of interesting and atypical items you don't find in a traditional tiki bar. You've got a lot of stuff and because the massive amount of wall and floor space, you can really collect, collect, collect.....

I can't get over how much "HillBilly" looks like Rutger Hauer. Hmm!?

Anyways, nice digs.