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El Tiki, Imperial, CA (restaurant) |
Zeta
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Joined: Feb 13, 2007
Posts: 2032
From: Atlantis/Basque Country/Spain/Mexico
|  Posted: 2009-04-10 12:38 am Permalink
El Tiki with a sombrero... Now I have seen it all!
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Queen Kamehameha
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Joined: Oct 21, 2003
Posts: 1374
From: So Cal
| Posted: 2009-04-10 2:17 pm Permalink
Mike, Just so you have them in one thread here are 2 of the El Tiki...Tiki's That I have.The third I dont have a pic of but will get one, it way up at the top of the yard
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MadDogMike
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Joined: Mar 30, 2008
Posts: 6486
From: The Anvil of the Sun
| Posted: 2009-04-10 3:55 pm Permalink
Thanks Amy, they look right at home in your yard. Much happier than they were off the side of some abandoned country road. Seems like I don't see many new tikis carved upside down with the rootball for hair.
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MadDogMike
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Joined: Mar 30, 2008
Posts: 6486
From: The Anvil of the Sun
| Posted: 2009-06-14 8:25 pm Permalink
Here is another of Ben Wilson's Tiki creations. This one migrated to a residence during the great tiki diaspora after El Tiki closed. This is a lousy cell phone picture taken through a dirty windshield, I'll replace it with a better one sometime.
EDIT - New picture posted 4/23/10
[ This Message was edited by: MadDogMike 2010-04-23 18:49 ]
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ninax797
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Joined: Mar 29, 2011
Posts: 1 | Posted: 2011-03-29 11:40 pm Permalink
This is funny my mom was telling me stories about her childhood bestfriend Benjamin Wilson sharing a song el tiki jingle for show and tell in the fourth / fifth grade she was singing it to me I thought it was cute so I tried finding it and she remembers the whole song, her name is Monica. I thought my mom was going nuts.
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Otto
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Joined: Mar 29, 2002
Posts: 774
From: NorCal
| Posted: 2011-07-10 11:39 pm Permalink
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On 2008-06-19 10:58, bigbrotiki wrote:
Wow. Not too long ago, someone posted the menu from the El Tiki here:
...which I tought was a great example of cross-cultural Tiki inspiration back in the day. The menu text says it all.
So Mad Dog, do you know the guy?
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Hey! This would be a great idea/theme for a South of the Border style Tiki Oasis?
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Dustycajun
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Joined: Nov 16, 2007
Posts: 3946
From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2011-07-11 07:57 am Permalink
Now where the heck did John-O get that shirt?
DC
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MadDogMike
Grand Member (3 years)
Joined: Mar 30, 2008
Posts: 6486
From: The Anvil of the Sun
| Posted: 2011-07-11 3:38 pm Permalink
Otto - Ben Wilson, the owner of El Tiki, had built some fiberglass sombrero'd tikis in the late 70s for a chain of Mexican fast food restaurants he tried to open. I don't know if any of those are still around but they would be cool decorations for Oasis (though Sven would say they were "Tiki Devolution Style" and he would be right)
Edit - DC, he said he had HB Tiki print it for him.
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Hey look, mister. We serve hard drinks in here for men who want to get drunk fast, and we don't need any characters around to give the joint "atmosphere". Is that clear?
[ This Message was edited by: MadDogMike 2011-07-11 15:40 ]
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MadDogMike
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Posts: 6486
From: The Anvil of the Sun
| Posted: 2011-09-24 8:58 pm Permalink
April 9, 1963 - Imperial Valley Press
A 6-foot tiki god, which weighed more than 300 pounds, was stolen from the front of El Tiki Restaurant in Imperial. Ben Wilson, the restaurant's owner, said he was busy with customers most of the afternoon and when he went outside at 7 p.m. to turn on the outside lights he discovered the tiki missing.
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Clay, the oldest and most divine art media;
"And now, from the clay of the ground, the Lord God formed man" Genesis 2:7
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Chuck Tatum is Tiki
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Joined: May 12, 2011
Posts: 1674
From: Southern Cailifornia
| Posted: 2011-09-24 9:31 pm Permalink
Looks like a case for...Chuck Tatum, Time Travel Detective!
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