Blowfish Bar – Flagler Beach, FL - Home Tiki Bars

T TikiTomD Grand Member (6 years) Flagler Beach, FL Joined: Sep 20, 2009 Posts: 700	T TikiTomD Posted posted on Mon, Aug 22, 2011 5:07 PM Aloha, tigertail777. Appreciate your application of mana to diminish the impact of Hurricane Irene. You can be assured that rum spirits and other cocktail necessities will be stocked and mixed to help us ride out the storm, once everything’s been done to secure home, family, friends and animals as best we can. Hurricane parties are a normal, if thankfully infrequent, part of life in tropical latitudes, especially near a coast. They help folks cope when the power goes out and you’re captive amidst darkness, deafening noise, sweltering heat and humidity. We had a successful rendezvous with “Keylo” Lewis in Ormond Beach yesterday afternoon. Here’s Keylo with the Kona Kai tiki he carved for the Blowfish Bar... I think he did an awesome job of re-creating the iconic logo tiki. Compare it, for example, to this 1960’s Kona Kai cocktail menu in Mimi Payne’s collection (http://www.arkivatropika.com/)... A very similar Maori tattooed tiki image appeared on some of Trader Vic’s items, including this 1958 luncheon menu, again from Mimi Payne’s collection, perhaps serving as the precursor for the Kona Kai tiki icon... Here’s Kona Kai in his new home at the Blowfish Bar... -Tom [ Edited by: TikiTomD 2011-08-22 18:53 ]

Aloha, tigertail777. Appreciate your application of mana to diminish the impact of Hurricane Irene. You can be assured that rum spirits and other cocktail necessities will be stocked and mixed to help us ride out the storm, once everything’s been done to secure home, family, friends and animals as best we can. Hurricane parties are a normal, if thankfully infrequent, part of life in tropical latitudes, especially near a coast. They help folks cope when the power goes out and you’re captive amidst darkness, deafening noise, sweltering heat and humidity.

We had a successful rendezvous with “Keylo” Lewis in Ormond Beach yesterday afternoon. Here’s Keylo with the Kona Kai tiki he carved for the Blowfish Bar...

I think he did an awesome job of re-creating the iconic logo tiki. Compare it, for example, to this 1960’s Kona Kai cocktail menu in Mimi Payne’s collection (http://www.arkivatropika.com/)...

A very similar Maori tattooed tiki image appeared on some of Trader Vic’s items, including this 1958 luncheon menu, again from Mimi Payne’s collection, perhaps serving as the precursor for the Kona Kai tiki icon...

Here’s Kona Kai in his new home at the Blowfish Bar...

-Tom

[ Edited by: TikiTomD 2011-08-22 18:53 ]

Post #603453 by TikiTomD on Mon, Aug 22, 2011 5:07 PM