Post #489292 by bigbrotiki on Tue, Oct 20, 2009 7:59 PM

On 2009-10-07 05:20, bigbrotiki wrote:
It would be great to find a better picture of the Bumatay Tiki to get confirmation that it was indeed the prototype for the mug.

My wish has been answered! Amazing. I never knew that banks have photo archives. So they're good for something! :wink:

One thought, please humor me: Now for us all here, heavily educated Tikiphiles that we are, urban archeologists who appreciate the faintest remnant of a lost Tiki temple, this is a fantastic find...BUT is it not also, after years of staring at that great exterior, and the endless parade of great Tiki mugs, a little bit of a let down?

I am not saying for me, I now like the clean, modernist style this place apparently had as opposed to the fully cluttered, nook'n'cranny full of tschotchkies look that some other Polynesian palaces sported. But I don't know if I would have put the bar photo in the Book of Tiki as a prime example of the style. For example, I left the interior postcard of Tiki Bob's consciously out of the book because it did not live up to the greatness of the name, the menu, and the mug. Sometimes it is more alluring to leave a mystery...

But this is mere mind babble, I love the fact that the Bumatay Tiki is clearly identified as the Islander's logo Tiki now, and I will never leave any image unpublished because I am trying to protect the myth. We have grown past that. :D

My sofa corner lamp