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Tikis at Sea World San Diego?
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03/01/2012
Hello, I just discovered this wonderful website a few days ago. |
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Dustycajun
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03/16/2012
A few new photos from flickr. A nice Tiki in front of the Hawaiian Punch Pavilion. And another view of the Tiki dolphin show, this one shows a large volcano on the left of the pool. DC |
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Dustycajun
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07/07/2012
A few more photos from the world wide web. The entrance to the Hawaiian Punch Village. The dolphin show and the Hawaiian Punch Village in the background. DC |
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tigertail777
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07/08/2012
Now I understand. I went there as a kid in the 70's and have some really distinct memories of how great it was. I have been wondering if all these years my memory was betraying me because the current incarnation is crap compared to what I remember, and now I know why. I have always really dug the Hawaiian/Polynesian motif because I was born in Honolulu but was very young when we moved so I don't remember much about it. As a result as a kid I glommed onto anything that could hold that same feeling I felt in Hawaii. We moved to California right after (dad was in the Navy so we moved a lot) and would go to Disneyland, Knotts etc every month or so (especially on free armed forces nights, and I of course adored The Enchanted Tiki Room). We only went to Sea World a few times since it was farther away, but I have lasting impressions of the entrance, the water show, and the massive nautical/pirate themed playground with the swinging bridges and pirate ship (still can't find good photos of any of this online) and of course of Hawaiian punch and Shamu. I absolutely am loving all the pics people are sharing it has brought a rush of memories back I had forgotten and I understand my love for the place now. I just wish the beginning several pages of this thread was not a broken picture wasteland I am dying to see the things people previously shared and talked about, so if anyone saved them please take the time to put them back up. :) |
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TIKIBOSKO
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07/08/2012
As usual I am late to everything around here, jaynh thanks so much for filling us in with all of your info but especially the A-Frame entry timeline; it’s nice to know my memory loss isn’t totally out of control yet. Looking back on it I recall taking my high school girlfriend there in the early 80’s so that must be what/when I remembered. |
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Dustycajun
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07/19/2012
A few more nuggets from Sea World. A photo of the Hawaiian Punch Village from the aerial tram And a B & W of Punchy and his band. DC |
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TIKIBOSKO
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06/12/2013
Hello everyone, I just picked up a 1986 Sea World brochure and sure enough the A-Frame is still pictured, Enjoy Bosko |
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forgotten tikiman
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06/12/2013
Nice find Bosko. :D |
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christiki295
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06/20/2013
And props to Dustycajon as well. [ Edited by: christiki295 2013-06-19 20:58 ] |
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TIKIBOSKO
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06/26/2013
Hello again here's a photo from Sea World with a Tiki in the background, it looks to me like it could be at the Hawaiian Punch Village, the railing behind her seems to look like other pictures I've seen of it. The glass contains something vaguely tropical looking, unfortunately the drink doesn't resemble anything I have in my archives and it seems strange (to me) that they would use actual glassware, or maybe it's plastic and I'm not seeing that? Aside from all that it is painfully lacking in any other kind of detail except the bag which has their colors and the Shamu logo.
Enjoy Bosko |
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Dustycajun
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06/27/2013
Cool photo Bosko. Here is a anther shot of the Big Ass A-Frame out front.
Pretty easy to figure out where to enter! DC |
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TIKIBOSKO
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06/28/2013
Hey DC great photo as always, funny how they had to make things so obvious back then. |
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Unga Bunga
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06/28/2013
Rare video footage inside the hut with the luau show. !980 commercial. Starts at !:05 timing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=lBsvNqnrMA8#t=64s |
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TIKIBOSKO
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07/01/2013
Wow Unga thanks that was painfully short what a bunch of teases, did they have the Luau show in San Diego or was this video from the Florida location? The 86 brochure makes no mention of it but who knows, I also just noticed that by 1986 the Hawaiian Punch Village had been cleverly renamed AL E. GATOR'S RESTAURANT AND COCKTAIL LOUNGE (so that may explain my drink question) obviously the devolution of Tiki was right on track at Sea World. |
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Unga Bunga
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07/02/2013
It was just a link. Great Sea World memories! |
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christiki295
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07/11/2013
Sea World has a large reproduction of that Tiki posted on its historical walkway. |
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mike and marie
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07/31/2015
Sabina, they did have a Tiki area, a Hawaiian Punch Village just like the San Diego location -- and it was an OA install!
We'd love to see photos of this and the Tiki Gift Shop. Both of us went here as kids, and we recently found our family's Super8 footage of Sea Worlds visits. We got them scanned and only hope our parents had tiki radar, too ... I guess we'll find out as soon as we watch them! We recently picked up these large benches and giant clam shells from Sea World:
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Dustycajun
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12/12/2015
M & M, nice clamshells!! Here's an old photo of the Hawaiian Punch Village entrance from ebay.
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progrocktv
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03/20/2017
Thank you so much for posting this! It was this EXACT dolphin show, and seeing the floating open mouthed Tiki God island thing (lower left) when I was 6 years-old that started this whole Tiki thing for me! We went to the Bali Hai afterwords and I was hooked! |
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AceExplorer
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03/21/2017
Cool! And the Bali Hai too? Hope you had a rockin' good cocktail - at 6 years old! I grew up visiting Sea World once in a while with my family. That photo reminded me of the Hawaiian Punch village and related stuff, plus the whole mystique of Mission Bay and the ocean so near the park. Many years later I wound up sailing those waters, snorkeling around the tops of the kelp beds offshore, and fishing for tuna. Fun times in So Cal! Too bad my family's photos from those days have been lost. I know we had some great slides at one time... |