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Dustycajun
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Nov 16, 2007
Posts: 3936
From: Santa Barbara, CA
|  Posted: 2011-04-14 07:58 am Permalink
I came across this old phone book ad for the Chin Tiki on a Detroit blog.
It has a nice graphics of a mystery bowl being served and shows the hostess with an old menu.
DC
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nature boy
Tiki Centralite
Joined: Apr 02, 2008
Posts: 69
From: Timonium, Maryland
| Posted: 2011-04-14 08:27 am Permalink
Why would someone place the phone number over the tiki's eyes!
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bigbrotiki
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Joined: Mar 25, 2002
Posts: 10566
From: Tiki Island, above the Silverlake
| Posted: 2011-04-14 11:23 am Permalink
DC, here the great photo that that rendering was taken from:
See it (a bit repaired) in Tiki Modern, page 272
You can play "What's missing in this picture" 
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Bora Boris
Mr. Unreasonable
Joined: Mar 25, 2005
Posts: 2404
From: Boogie Wonderland
| Posted: 2011-04-14 12:31 pm Permalink
The Puffer Fish! 
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aquarj
Grand Member (8 years) 
Joined: Apr 02, 2002
Posts: 1040
From: SF bay area, CA
| Posted: 2011-04-14 1:02 pm Permalink
What's missing in that picture is ME!!!
I should be there. Right now.
C'mon, just this one time, someone lend me their time machine. The nice thing about borrowing a time machine is that it doesn't matter how late you are returning it.
-Randy
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GatorRob
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Joined: Aug 20, 2004
Posts: 1766
From: 3 hrs 33 mins to paradise
| Posted: 2011-04-14 4:21 pm Permalink
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On 2011-04-14 13:02, aquarj wrote:
The nice thing about borrowing a time machine is that it doesn't matter how late you are returning it.
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Hah! I'm with you Randy. I want to go to there...
I like the cleaned up pic Sven, but shame it had to be so small. Bigger is better, so I'll take the damaged goods. (PS - You need an iPad version of the BOT with touchable images for their full size glory. Oh, and virtual tours of long lost Tiki temples. In 3D.)
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GatorRob
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Joined: Aug 20, 2004
Posts: 1766
From: 3 hrs 33 mins to paradise
| Posted: 2011-04-14 6:23 pm Permalink
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On 2009-03-06 15:57, bigbrotiki wrote:
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By the way, see that Chinese-looking mask on the wall? It's right here 
Sorry for the awful cell phone pic. But it looks like your image is reversed? Otherwise, it's the same one. Although I would much rather have the panel carving to the left.
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Dustycajun
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Nov 16, 2007
Posts: 3936
From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2011-10-02 10:01 am Permalink
Here is a great old photo from the Chin Tiki that sold on ebay a little while back.
Am I correct in assuming that the dapper gentleman is Marvin Chin?
DC
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Chub
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jan 26, 2005
Posts: 258
From: Detroit, MI but now in sunny Los Angeles
| Posted: 2011-10-02 11:06 am Permalink
You are correct sir.
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bigbrotiki
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Mar 25, 2002
Posts: 10566
From: Tiki Island, above the Silverlake
| Posted: 2011-10-02 11:25 am Permalink
Yup, a young Marvin, and he is sitting on the entrance bridge to the bar, which was still in its sleeping beauty slumber when I photographed the place in 2006:
...only the plastic plant jungle had become twisted in dusty disarray.
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Dustycajun
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Nov 16, 2007
Posts: 3936
From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2012-06-13 8:32 pm Permalink
Three colors of the large swizzle/pics from the Chin Tiki.
DC
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tikilongbeach
Grand Member (first year) 
Joined: Aug 05, 2011
Posts: 689
From: LBC via DFW
| Posted: 2013-01-10 3:24 pm Permalink
The website society6.com has some cool Chin Tiki pillows, hoodies, iPhone cases, stretched canvas, etc you can buy.
I like the faded brick wall mural that they used.
http://society6.com/fotogink/Chin-Tiki-Wall_Hoody#7=95&8=36
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