Post #798851 by uncle trav on Mon, Nov 25, 2019 12:07 PM

I’d thought I’d share part of an email that I received back in 2007. I contacted Oceanic Arts searching for in formation they might provide about outfitting the TMK back in 1969. One of the articles I have posted earlier in the thread states that the interior cost $75,000 at that time. The email gives a tiny glimpse into how the interiors of some of the great Polynesian restaurants were laid out. No architects or plans. Most likely no suits and ties and endless meetings and emails and an army of hands in the pie. Just a couple of guys with sketch pads and a hell of a lot of vision and imagination. And after all that installing the interior themselves with the help of the bartending staff. It was a simpler time some may say but turning a hollow box into an indoor Polynesian village on the scale these folks worked in was and still is a rare art form practiced and accomplished by a very few.