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My first public tiki bar installations... Fountain added 4-20-05 |
Lake Surfer
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Joined: Oct 21, 2002
Posts: 3311
From: Milwaukee, WI
|  Posted: 2005-03-17 11:45 am Permalink
I meet this week with restaurant owners who are opening a tropical/tiki themed place on lakefront property. Trying to restrain my excitement and hoping this works out... they sought me out which is a good thing. Sounds like time is of the essence so I could be quite busy.
Tiki is returning to Wisconsin.
I'll post updates when I find out more and I'll show progress on this thread...
[ This Message was edited by: Lake Surfer on 2005-04-05 21:26 ]
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finkdaddy
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Joined: May 11, 2004
Posts: 2050
From: Wisconsin
| Posted: 2005-03-17 11:46 am Permalink
Where exactly?
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Tiki G.
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Joined: Feb 28, 2005
Posts: 380
From: Jacksonville Beach, FL
| Posted: 2005-03-17 11:52 am Permalink
Awesome Lake. Been a long time coming for you. Congrats. Hope it all works out for ya!
Rock On......
G.
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rodeotiki
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Joined: Jan 21, 2004
Posts: 1513
From: calgary
| Posted: 2005-03-17 12:00 pm Permalink
Congrats , From what I have read your do. The wind here is blowing from the west , So I burned some shavings as a offering for ya.
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Monkeyman
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Joined: Mar 04, 2003
Posts: 2301
From: Vista, CA
| Posted: 2005-03-17 12:01 pm Permalink
I have layed all my chisels out to form the work "LAKE". I bow down to them and pay homage to the tiki gods and ask that they bestow success upon you.
Excellent news. You have earned it.
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seamus
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Joined: May 07, 2003
Posts: 462
From: Portland
| Posted: 2005-03-17 12:02 pm Permalink
Good Luck LakeSurfer. Sounds like the kind of break we all wish for.
When we first moved to the little town we now reside in, there was a cool little restaurant called Hawaii Kai. The place was nicely decorated inside, but they had no Tikis. This seemed like a Godsend. It was owned by a Hawaiian/Irish(?!)woman who was a retired Polynesian entertainer. I thought maybe after we ate there a few times, I could get around to striking up a conversation and maybe even donate a couple of TIkis for display.
It was a good plan, but the food was horrible and the service was worse. Still, I thought if I just choked down a couple meals I could get in with these folks and maybe make something happen. A month later they went out of business. Now it's a bar with Karaoke, that serves Guinness, so they call themselves an British pub.
Hope your story ends better than mine!
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purple jade
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Joined: Feb 19, 2003
Posts: 1450
From: New Orleans
| Posted: 2005-03-17 12:22 pm Permalink
That is sensational! Fingers and toes all crossed this works out!
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McTiki
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Joined: Aug 22, 2004
Posts: 1939
From: Sunny Florida
| Posted: 2005-03-17 1:52 pm Permalink
Sacrificing small rodents tonight at the firepit bruddah! Good Luck! I am sure your work will blow them away! Mahalo!
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Trader Tiki
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Joined: Mar 06, 2003
Posts: 385
From: Portland, OR
| Posted: 2005-03-17 2:04 pm Permalink
Tiki's with CheeseHeads?
WI? WI NOT!
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Raffertiki
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Joined: Oct 31, 2003
Posts: 1527
From: L.I.
| Posted: 2005-03-17 2:58 pm Permalink
A big break, and you get a tiki bar to hang out in. Great news. If the bar owner needs a reference, send him to TC.
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Benzart
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Joined: Jan 09, 2004
Posts: 10306
From: Port Saint Lucie, Florida
| Posted: 2005-03-17 3:24 pm Permalink
Way to go Laker, you have earned it. I don't think you need any voodoo because you got it In the Bag, bro. All that hard work may start paying off now for you.
Yeay Lake, Yeay Lake, Yeaaay Lake.
HappyHappyHappy
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Johnny Dollar
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Joined: Oct 01, 2003
Posts: 2916
From: Baltimore, Maryland, PNG
| Posted: 2005-03-17 5:27 pm Permalink
mana o'plenty to you, lad! all the best.
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dogbytes
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Joined: Mar 24, 2002
Posts: 2240
From: seattle, wa
| Posted: 2005-03-17 5:56 pm Permalink
excellent news Lake Surfer!!
i hope this makes up for that art festival where people passed you by!
hey Seamus: is Waldport Oregon anywhere near Vancouver WA? because Patrick's Hawaiian Cafe is a place with excellent food and service, a fun tropical/hawaiian atmosphere, but sadly is a tiki-free zone! if you get a chance to go sometime, it sure could use a touch of tiki!
elicia
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tikimecula
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Joined: Apr 27, 2004
Posts: 404
From: Manhattan, KS
| Posted: 2005-03-17 6:01 pm Permalink
Way Cool!
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Lake Surfer
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Joined: Oct 21, 2002
Posts: 3311
From: Milwaukee, WI
| Posted: 2005-03-18 07:53 am Permalink
Thanks all! Today's the day... I trudge off this afternoon through a blinding snowstorm... hopefully to find a tiki paradise...
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