Introducing.... Arkiva Tropika

Really nice site and great collection! Thanks for all your hard work!!

How did i miss this! Excellent site, just wish i wasn't on 24kbps dial-up.

I was just looked up this thread as I needed to see some images of past Seattle Tiki things. I figured was well worth a bump.

ARKIVA TROPIKA is a really cool site ran by a swell person and a much better way to waste your company's time than playing Mafia Wars.

Hey, am I the only one that noticed that the Arkiva Tropika site is down??? I think it's been down for a few weeks now.

http://www.arkivatropika.com

Does anyone know what is going on?

On 2014-12-04 20:49, Tattoo wrote:
Hey, am I the only one that noticed that the Arkiva Tropika site is down??? I think it's been down for a few weeks now.

http://www.arkivatropika.com

Does anyone know what is going on?

Yes, I find it to be down, too! No idea what's wrong with it.
You might try a PM to puamana and/or Humuhumu to inquire.

Tattoo and kraken, we noticed, I asked the same question on TikiShout a few days ago. Sven and I have both contacted Puamana (Mimi Payne) who had the Arkiva Tropika site. This was part is her reply to me on monday.

"It was a tough decision, yet I did shut down Arkiva Tropika just last week. Having multiple websites was getting expensive, and I wanted to dedicate that money and time towards keeping up with my photography. It truly was a labor of love and something I really enjoyed doing, and I'm so glad that it was shared and enjoyed for as long as it was :)"

Thank you Mimi for sharing your collection with for so long, it will be greatly missed.

I would like those of you on Facebook to go to her page, where I first asked her if her site was gone, and say thank you. If you can't post there send her a message on Facebook, or here, for her site was on the shortlist of essential tiki websites ever created.

aloha, to you Puamana and mahalo,
tikicoma

Too bad there was so much great vintage Tiki era graphics on this site, loved looking at it over the years!!!

Arkiva Tropika was a great site. It will be missed. You can find matchbooks and menus on Critiki.

What a loss for the Tiki community. Mimi and Humuhumu did such a great job on the site, it will be sorely missed for research, knowledge and inspiration.

DC

Since Mimi seemed mainly concerned about the expense
of this website, perhaps it could be revived as a subscription
service. I'm pretty sure that a lot of us, on Tike Central and
elsewhere, would be very much willing to put up a small
contribution each quarter to have it back.

Most of it is captured on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20141011193213/http://www.arkivatropika.com/cgi-bin/

Thanks MrBaliHi, the search function does't work but the tab links do, and as you said most but not all of the images are there. Kraken I've wondered the same thing but I don't know what it would take aside from Mimi's interest, but if she would agree I would donate to it as I do to TC.

aloha, tikicoma

It would be cool to have as a sub-site or feature of tiki central! :)

Good save, I say, old chap!

On 2014-12-05 17:02, MrBaliHai wrote:
Most of it is captured on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20141011193213/http://www.arkivatropika.com/cgi-bin/

I was going to suggest that. I love using the Wayback Machine to look at old websites of yore.

I definitely took this great site for granted.

I've bookmarked the ref site above for what's left of Arkiva Tropika, just thinking all the time & effort it took to put the original site together.

Has anyone conversed with Mimi about reviving Arkiva
Tropika as a pay-for-access site? I can't because I don't
know her, but a number of you evidently do.

Kraken

I take it no one was able to pursue this, or pursue it with any result. It was a great and incredible resource. I don't know if the passing time may have made it any more possible, but add me to those who would love to see it back up and would contribute to the restoration.

Doc, I did talk to her about her site. It's been so long that I can't accurately recall what she said but what I seem to remember was being that Arkiva was no longer on a server she wouldn't be able to just restore it and would need to be rebuilt. I don't remember if she said that she still has all the images scanned (but I think she may have) and she has since sold much of her collection. She didn't lose her love of tiki/tropical design but she had to make some changes for herself.

[ Edited by: tikicoma 2017-03-17 19:50 ]

The Internet Wayback Machine has a fair amount of the site from what I recall when I did done searches early in 2016.

The Wayback Machine, what would we do without it.