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8FT Tiki
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Joined: Nov 30, 2003
Posts: 1172
From: Kansas City, MO
|  Posted: 2005-12-26 6:30 pm Permalink
Just tell us you didn't do that with chisels!!
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Moki
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Joined: Jun 08, 2004
Posts: 357
From: San Diego
| Posted: 2005-12-26 6:35 pm Permalink
Okay... that one made me laugh out loud!!! Tiki Spud!!!!
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makutiki
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Joined: Dec 03, 2005
Posts: 89 | Posted: 2005-12-30 11:45 am Permalink
This one (and his friends) were hiding on my sisters X-mas table-cloth....
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badmojo
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Joined: Apr 23, 2003
Posts: 666 | Posted: 2006-03-29 06:25 am Permalink
Every time I watch Good Eats I think this mushroom in the title sequence looks like the top of a Moai.
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Johnny Dollar
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Joined: Oct 01, 2003
Posts: 2916
From: Baltimore, Maryland, PNG
| Posted: 2006-03-29 06:30 am Permalink
haaha, excellent screen capture, mojo!
wouldn't put it past ol' alton to put some subliminal tiki in there.
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Slacks Ferret
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Joined: Oct 02, 2003
Posts: 1172
From: Calgary
| Posted: 2006-03-29 08:23 am Permalink
Some of these are pretty funny. I think someone should carve a version of the one Makutiki submitted.
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tikigap
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Joined: Jan 19, 2006
Posts: 834
From: Arlingtron Virginia
| Posted: 2006-03-29 09:23 am Permalink
Spud Tiki! That's hilarious! I bust out laughin' at that one too.
Here's one in space:
more info here: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060314.html
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Chip and Andy
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Joined: Jul 13, 2004
Posts: 2078
From: Corner table, Molokai Lounge, Mai-Kai.
| Posted: 2006-05-03 5:25 pm Permalink
Found this thrifting the other day....
Can't decide if it is Moai or Robot. So I will say Robotic Moai....
And, it works both ways up.....
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pappythesailor
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Joined: Jul 07, 2005
Posts: 1563
From: Mass.
| Posted: 2006-05-03 6:16 pm Permalink
Whoa! That's Mom's Electrolux. I remember a traveling salesman sold it to us circa 1971!
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crazy al
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Joined: Jun 25, 2002
Posts: 1782
From: CA
| Posted: 2006-07-11 10:25 am Permalink
has this been posted.... just found this guy at one of the most visited place on earth, one of the most visited spots at the Grand Canyon!!
South Rim... Visitor Center View point
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Chip and Andy
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Posts: 2078
From: Corner table, Molokai Lounge, Mai-Kai.
| Posted: 2006-08-20 09:50 am Permalink
This one was a little more 'vivid" after a few cocktails......
Josh playing his upright at the Jetsetter. Looked over and there it was, a Moai just jamming out with the band.....
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Ojaitimo
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Joined: Aug 04, 2006
Posts: 1283 | Posted: 2007-01-01 11:13 pm Permalink
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On 2006-12-30 06:12, bigbrotiki wrote:
While this is not fully Tiki, but more "outsider art" or "roadside art", often these kind of environments have Tiki-like elements. There could also be a thread on "Tikis in strange places"
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OK, here goes
My brother Michael Mc Millen has an interest in tiki that our mother was involved in designing.
From Dec 25 to Jan 13 this installation on the corner of Santa Monica blvd and Yale runs from 6pm to midnight every night in Santa Monica, California.
The film Cyclops shown contains at least one shot of the Trade Winds exterior. There is another picture showing the two Witco tikis used by Ione atat the Royal Hawaiian clubhouse.
The film is shown continously until January 13, 2007 from 6pm to midnight each night.
Trade Winds entrance with the tiki to the lower right
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Ojaitimo
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Joined: Aug 04, 2006
Posts: 1283 | Posted: 2007-01-03 1:13 pm Permalink
Here is a video on You Tube from Red Trailer Motel I just uploaded today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHUZnwYWmnM
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bigbrotiki
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Joined: Mar 25, 2002
Posts: 10558
From: Tiki Island, above the Silverlake
| Posted: 2007-01-03 3:04 pm Permalink
Thank you for opening this thread, Tim. Yet with "Tiki in strange places" I was more thinking along the lines of urban archeology, of finding old Tikis out of their element, in not obvious, non-Polynesian themed places, much like your post on that desert body shop/junk yard that lead to this one.
Here are some examples:
The "Tune up Tiki" at Bob Willemsen's Instatune on Lincoln Blvd in Santa Monica:
Their office waiting room was filled to the hilt with New Guinea masks, the owner had travelled there. When I went back to photograph that, the place had changed hands, and was barren of Tiki.
or these doorhandles on a place in Korea town, on Vermont and Beverly (I believe). It must have been Chinese/Polynesian once, but was a Korean Disco now. I liked the juxtaposition of the name and the urban blight look. (The new name is not bad either, it's now called "Bobby London".) 
 
And here, some lost looking Tikis on the interior miniature golf course at the Family Fun Center in Ontario, CA:
Back to the desert: Here is a forgotten beauty behind an old prospector's adobe abode, across from the Miracle Manor Motel in Desert Hot Springs, (near Palm Springs)
It stood amidst some sort of desert garden, I was told that UFO enthusiasts used to gather there...
PS: Most of these are gone now
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Bora Boris
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Joined: Mar 25, 2005
Posts: 2401
From: Boogie Wonderland
| Posted: 2007-01-03 3:46 pm Permalink
I drive by Bobby London's all the time. I always thought the rock facade out front was cool but had never noticed the door handles. I'm gonna have to go inside at some point and I'm sure when I do the music will stop and all eyes will be on me until I leave but I'm going in!
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