Polynesian Murals and Dioramas - Vintage & Other

The Waldorf mural is by Peter Hopkinson (based on Eugene Savage's work)

Interesting article here.

Thanks for the info. Sweet Daddy.

BigBroTiki,

The Hearst's Ranch was located in the east San Francisco bay area. W. R. Hearst's mother had an estate in Pleasanton, Ca. Evidently it became a Polynesian Dude Ranch some time after her passing, perhaps in keeping with the Parker Ranch on the Big Island. Her house eventually became a country club "club house" that burned down in the 1969. A new club house was built on the foundation and is in use today.

I've lived in the area over 10 years and never heard about the dude ranch. That area is all high end subdivisions and the country club now. I finally have a reason to go to the local historical museum to see if I can learn more!

Just did a web search and found a complete history of the property. The dude ranch phase was just a 12 year footnote in long and colorful history: http://www.bunnweb.org/histdect/9-29-05.htm . It was in operation from 1940-1952.

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Found this for sale in Hawaii's Craigslist. Anybody know the artist or where this unrestored & restored paintings came from?


"Old oil painting from a Mainland Hawaiian restaurant. Probably from 1940-50's. Artist unknown. It is not stretched and needs restoration. Measures about 6 X 8 feet..." (remember the unrestored one is for sale if anyone is interested)

P.S. I don't know the seller just thought this would be a good mystery to solve by you TC sleuths.

The Disney Aulani Resort has a lot of murals. Enter 'Aulani murals' into Google Images and quite a few pictures come up. You can tell the architects borrowed from the Coco Palms. The Aulani website says the resort contains one of the largest collections of contemporary Hawaiian art in the country.

This video shows the 200-foot long lobby mural.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RRmc1zH-Dg

Oh my...that Disney ceiling is breath-taking, thanks for posting. All the murals in this thread are so beautiful.

Agreed tikilongbeach. Check my comments and photos here: http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=29331&forum=2&start=90

On 2013-06-02 23:04, creativenative wrote:
Agreed tikilongbeach. Check my comments and photos here: http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=29331&forum=2&start=90

creativenative, thank you for including link to your previous comments.

Three years since the last post so here's a puzzle. I found this old photo while surfing the net, no information on where it was taken, obviously a tropical restaurant that had a full wall mural the only clue is the year 1954.

Anyone have any ideas?

aloha, tikicoma

Tikicoma,

Looks like Clifton's Pacific Seas.

DC

On 2016-07-17 23:17, tikicoma wrote:
Three years since the last post so here's a puzzle. I found this old photo while surfing the net, no information on where it was taken, obviously a tropical restaurant that had a full wall mural the only clue is the year 1954.

Anyone have any ideas?

aloha, tikicoma

Here is another photo with a peek at another mural in Clifton's from the LA Library archives.

DC

I had this mural done for my home bar.

Picture of me with the artist for scale. The artist is Brendan McWilliams - Darkvale Studios - his website is http://www.darkvalestudios.com/

Khon tiki mon, that mural looks great.

Dusty how do you remember all this stuff!! I thought it had a pre-WWII look and of course you're right... this is from the first page of the Clifton's Pacific Seas thread.

A group room with practically the same shot!

Here's part of the stage mural at the new Pacific Seas in Clifton's.

Before the antique wash and blacked out windows!

Sammy Beam is a mural master!!! Check out his other works here....

http://www.sammybeam.com/

He has 3 inside Pacific Seas.

Naaaice! - Classic.

On 2016-07-19 00:10, tikicoma wrote:
Dusty how do you remember all this stuff!! I thought it had a pre-WWII look and of course you're right... this is from the first page of the Clifton's Pacific Seas thread.

A group room with practically the same shot!

Dam!
Check out that four tier light in that pic.
Crazy!