Post #148438 by bigbrotiki on Tue, Mar 22, 2005 1:10 PM

I have a set of those white cut out masks from the Waikikian, from Dug Miller. He dug up the store that got all the leftover furniture after the Waikikian closed, it was in Hilo of all places. You can see them on his webpage. The Dressers were great, they had the amazing A-frame lobby carved into the drawer handles, I only got a small one.

These masks are simple thin wood cutouts, but they are special to me, because I got to appreciate them in action when I stayed at the Waikikian the year before it closed:

Laying on my bed in a darkened room I had the view towards the silhouetted screen doors that held the masks in a few sections, and marveled at how the flickering light of the torches in the Waikikian gardens would make a haunting shadow play of the Tiki faces on the shoji screens, all accompanied by the subtle sounds of Arthur Lyman's Taboo on my little stereo. It was perfection.

Then I got up and went to the Tahitian Lanai to see the oldtimers play their Hapa Haole swing... :cry:

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki on 2005-03-22 13:14 ]