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Introducing.... Arkiva Tropika

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TheBigT posted on 10/10/2006

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

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Mike the Headhunter posted on 04/28/2007

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

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woofmutt posted on 08/17/2009

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.

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Tattoo posted on 12/05/2014

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?

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kraken posted on 12/05/2014

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.

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tikicoma posted on 12/05/2014

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

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Thortiki posted on 12/05/2014

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

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tikilongbeach posted on 12/05/2014

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

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Dustycajun posted on 12/05/2014

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

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kraken posted on 12/06/2014

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.

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MrBaliHai posted on 12/06/2014

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

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

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tikicoma posted on 12/06/2014

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

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TheBigT posted on 12/08/2014

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

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bigbrotiki posted on 12/08/2014

Good save, I say, old chap!

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Fez Moai posted on 12/09/2014

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.

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Pitcairn posted on 12/09/2014

I definitely took this great site for granted.

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Thortiki posted on 12/10/2014

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.

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kraken posted on 12/13/2014

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

DC
Dr. Coruba posted on 03/18/2017

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.

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tikicoma posted on 03/18/2017

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 ]

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AceExplorer posted on 03/18/2017

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

DC
Dr. Coruba posted on 03/30/2017

The Wayback Machine, what would we do without it.

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