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Aku Tiki, Acapulco, Mexico (restaurant) |
Dustycajun
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Nov 16, 2007
Posts: 3946
From: Santa Barbara, CA
|  Posted: 2010-01-18 6:08 pm Permalink
Sabu,
Glad you got that menu, a beauty. Here is a snazzy ashtray from the Aku Tiki that surfaced on ebay recently.
DC
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Zeta
Grand Member (2 years) 
Joined: Feb 13, 2007
Posts: 2032
From: Atlantis/Basque Country/Spain/Mexico
| Posted: 2010-01-18 9:27 pm Permalink
DC, please tell me you got it! And if not, who did?
Thanks for posting it DC you are a professional.
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Zeta
Grand Member (2 years)
Joined: Feb 13, 2007
Posts: 2032
From: Atlantis/Basque Country/Spain/Mexico
| Posted: 2010-03-18 07:04 am Permalink
Review from a 1964 AAA Mexico travel guide
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Dustycajun
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Nov 16, 2007
Posts: 3946
From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2011-11-26 4:16 pm Permalink
I picked up a couple of postcards from the Aku Tiki in Acapulco that provide a little more information. Here is a card showing the exterior grounds and the garden waterfall by the beach.
Anybody recognize this alien-looking Tiki?
The description on the back of the card.
The Holiday Inn Acapulco hotel was built next door to the Aku Tiki as shown in the postcard.
It looks like the hotel grounds incorporated the Polynesian look as well.
Here is another photo of the hotel under construction next to the Aku Tiki.
You get a good look at the roof-line in this photo.
Would like to see more of that menu from Sabu.
DC
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Bora Boris
Mr. Unreasonable
Joined: Mar 25, 2005
Posts: 2416
From: Boogie Wonderland
| Posted: 2011-11-26 7:20 pm Permalink
Hmm, when you compare it to other Holiday Inns it makes me wonder if maybe someone had the instructions upside down? 
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Zeta
Grand Member (2 years)
Joined: Feb 13, 2007
Posts: 2032
From: Atlantis/Basque Country/Spain/Mexico
| Posted: 2011-12-20 10:19 pm Permalink
Dustycajun,
Thank you forever for your invaluable information.
The images you provide are a time/space warp in the past into what my father saw when he was 18.
Pure magic.
For me as a frecuent traveler to Acapulco, it's an insight on what it was.
I really wish I saw it live when it happened!
Thank Tiki there is Dustycajun!
I'll say it again. If there was something like the Tiki Oscars, my price would go to Dustycajun!
Mexico's Tiki friendly neighbor!
As the Embajador del Tiki en Mexico, I give you the Mexican Tikizenship.
Gracias
Standing applause!
Viva Dustycajun!
P.S. Do you own those postcards?
How much?
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Dustycajun
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Nov 16, 2007
Posts: 3946
From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2011-12-21 11:18 am Permalink
Zeta,
Nice to see you back, and thank you for the citizenship. I guess I don't need my passport to go fishing in Mexico anymore!
Here is an album cover from Richard Lemus that was shot at the Aku Tiki.
I clipped the image from the web, maybe Sabu or Jeff Central have the original that they can post a better shot from.
You can here a song from it on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_RKl0Oy4D4
And yes, those postcards are mine. Trade?
DC
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