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Ala Moana, Costa Mesa, CA (apartments) |
ZuluMagoo
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Joined: Jun 26, 2002
Posts: 468
From: Denver, CO
|  Posted: 2005-09-10 4:39 pm Permalink
Name:Ala Moana
Type:apartments
Street:530 Wilson Street
City:Costa Mesa (SoCal)
State:CA
Zip:
country:USA
Phone:
Status:operational
Description:
This complex is not far from the John Wayne Airport. It still has a running waterfall with a bridge over a small lagoon at the entrance. Not much left inside, a few portholes and pilings around the pool, no more tikis.
[ This Message was edited by: ZuluMagoo 2005-09-10 16:40 ]
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TikiJosh
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Joined: Feb 01, 2005
Posts: 735 | Posted: 2006-09-22 9:07 pm Permalink
Here's a shot of the pool area:
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MadDogMike
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Posts: 6412
From: The Anvil of the Sun
| Posted: 2010-03-26 07:49 am Permalink
Here's a couple bigger shots of the entry. When you stand in front of the waterfall you can close your eyes and imagine a time when tikis ruled the scene.
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TikiG
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Joined: Jun 17, 2008
Posts: 1519
From: Palmdale, California
| Posted: 2010-03-26 08:02 am Permalink
Great to see these pics...
Back in the 60s when I was a small child attending a day care/pre-school in Costa Mesa - I remember the car-ride home after my father would pick me up in the afternoon. We would pass several Polynesian themed apartment complexes, most of them with A-frame entrances, operating gas torches and waterfalls out front. I took those themed buildings for granted as a kid.
It wasn't until much later that I became interested in mid-century style - especially documenting what I could around my hometown environment before stuff disappeared. Unfortunately much of my childhood already did 
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abstractiki
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Joined: Aug 29, 2009
Posts: 582
From: Lodi, CA
| Posted: 2010-03-26 6:08 pm Permalink
Thanks for the update MD. It looks like the place still has green and red flood lights over the water fall pond area so that's good. It probably looks nice at night. A couple of Tikis out front and a gas Tiki torch n this place is back in business!
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Sistah Rose
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Joined: Jun 29, 2012
Posts: 3 | Posted: 2012-06-29 12:35 pm Permalink
We drove past it a lot when I was a kid in Costa Mesa; it was far more classic then.
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bigbrotiki
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Joined: Mar 25, 2002
Posts: 10563
From: Tiki Island, above the Silverlake
| Posted: 2012-06-30 03:36 am Permalink
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On 2010-03-26 08:02, TikiG wrote:
.... We would pass several Polynesian themed apartment complexes, most of them with A-frame entrances, operating gas torches and waterfalls out front. I took those themed buildings for granted as a kid...
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Sadly, it seems that everybody did, and that they were not photographed in their heyday. This is one of the biggest apartment A-frames I know of, and I would LOVE to see a photo of how the face of the A was decorated back when it was new - it must have had something, a pattern, tropical material, a lamp, a mask...
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forgotten tikiman
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Joined: Aug 18, 2011
Posts: 348
From: Forgotten Tiki Room. Pismo Beach, CA
| Posted: 2012-06-30 10:58 pm Permalink
I love this. Ofcourse being born in the 80's I missed alot of classic Tiki style in its heyday. But I really appreciate it now and love seeing complexes like this.
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tikilongbeach
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Posts: 688
From: LBC via DFW
| Posted: 2012-09-24 7:26 pm Permalink
Apartment Therapy did a small story on this complex back in 2007.
www.apartmenttherapy.com/complex-love-al-30057
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