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Bora Boris
Mr. Unreasonable
Joined: Mar 25, 2005
Posts: 2417
From: Boogie Wonderland
|  Posted: 2012-12-03 6:53 pm Permalink
TikiTie, the sign is gone and as you can see from page 1 and below, the Wan Q is now Fu's Palace.
Great idea to revive the sign if it actually still existed and what the Tucson Kon Tiki did was fantastic!
It would be great to know who did the Wan Q sign though, as Bigbro and Kiara had pointed out in this thread it's very similar in style to Malibu's Tonga Lei sign R.I.P. I like their clunkiness.
In fact I'm going to call them... Sister Signs!
Don't try to stop me! 
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1961surf
Grand Member (3 years) 
Joined: May 03, 2007
Posts: 1896
From: Newport Beach, Ca .
| Posted: 2013-03-06 4:19 pm Permalink
Charles Phoenix posted a nice image from one of his slides or postcards on Facebook today that is a little more colorful and vivid then any of the other images I have seen on this thread .
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bigbrotiki
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Mar 25, 2002
Posts: 10601
From: Tiki Island, above the Silverlake
| Posted: 2013-03-06 4:39 pm Permalink
That's because Charles knows how to crank up the colors on old faded photos  :
Before (previous page):
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Atomic Tiki Punk
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jul 19, 2009
Posts: 4210
From: Costa Misery
| Posted: 2013-03-06 4:48 pm Permalink
Photoshop baby!
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GROG
Grand Member (first year) 
Joined: Jun 21, 2006
Posts: 6264
From: Tujunga
| Posted: 2013-03-06 4:52 pm Permalink
[ This Message was edited by: GROG 2013-03-06 17:06 ]
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bigbrotiki
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Mar 25, 2002
Posts: 10601
From: Tiki Island, above the Silverlake
| Posted: 2013-03-06 5:01 pm Permalink
Just simple I-photo saturation and warmth. CHARLES knows how to crank up the colors - GROG does not! 
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bigbrotiki
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Mar 25, 2002
Posts: 10601
From: Tiki Island, above the Silverlake
| Posted: 2013-03-06 5:20 pm Permalink
Groovy Grog - those are definite SUGAR SHACK colors!
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Atomic Tiki Punk
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jul 19, 2009
Posts: 4210
From: Costa Misery
| Posted: 2013-03-06 5:51 pm Permalink
Classic 1960s Scene....
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christiki295
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Apr 09, 2003
Posts: 3619
From: LA-2547 mls east Hawaii &5500 Easter Is
| Posted: 2013-03-06 11:23 pm Permalink
In its glory days, Wan Q had an incredibly happening bar scene. I frequented it in the late 80s , when it retained its amazing faux tropical interior.
The times we had.
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Dustycajun
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Nov 16, 2007
Posts: 3951
From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2013-03-24 10:16 am Permalink
Saw this take out menu with a B & W version of the menu rendering. A classic. Reminds us all to appreciate what we still got.
This really needs to be one of Eric October's Tiki by Moonlight renderings!
DC
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tobunga
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Apr 12, 2008
Posts: 907 | Posted: 2013-04-19 5:36 pm Permalink
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On 2013-03-24 10:16, Dustycajun wrote:
Saw this take out menu with a B & W version of the menu rendering. A classic. Reminds us all to appreciate what we still got.
This really needs to be one of Eric October's Tiki by Moonlight renderings!
DC
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Hey Dusty!
I was just looking at this drawing and noticed there's a Tiki Torch in front of the tiki's face on the sign, and that made me think "Hey, that would make a great black paper drawing... and then I scrolled down and saw the last bit of your post!
So yeah, I'll probably do a drawing... just wondering if there really was a torch in that spot... there's a bit of bamboo in the photos running up in front of the tiki, but the top of the bamboo goes out of frame in all of the photos... ah well, I'll probably draw it as a lit torch, extending up above the tiki sign!
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Dustycajun
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Nov 16, 2007
Posts: 3951
From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2013-04-19 6:23 pm Permalink
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On 2013-04-19 17:36, tobunga wrote:
So yeah, I'll probably do a drawing... just wondering if there really was a torch in that spot... there's a bit of bamboo in the photos running up in front of the tiki, but the top of the bamboo goes out of frame in all of the photos... ah well, I'll probably draw it as a lit torch, extending up above the tiki sign!
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A torch lit in front of the Tiki indeed Tobunga, as seen on the menu cover from Tiki Kate.
This one was made for your artistic talents!
DC
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