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Hotel Taharaa, Papeete, Tahiti (hotel) |
virani
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Posts: 1434
From: Volcanic area of France
|  Posted: 2010-06-30 02:37 am Permalink
wow, awesome research. Yes, I wish I could go back there too, and kiss that tiki.
I didn't know the great Moritz painting that I have loved for so long was inspired by the hotel. Thanks.
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Zeta
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From: Atlantis/Basque Country/Spain/Mexico
| Posted: 2010-06-30 09:00 am Permalink
Virani, you been there? Please show some pictures.
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Dustycajun
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Posts: 3935
From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2010-06-30 6:36 pm Permalink
Martian Tiki just posted this video link on the 1964 Miami Beach Luau thread that shows some great shots of the inside and outside of the Hotel Taharaa!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFwzMvFJYik&NR=1#t=19m27s
Gotta love Tiki Central for the dynamic flow of info.
DC
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Babalu
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Joined: Nov 19, 2006
Posts: 2498
From: Lemon Grove
| Posted: 2010-07-01 08:08 am Permalink
Man, what a place!
Interesting tiki by the pool there too...
It's like an imagined paradise in paradise...how cool is that!
Also interesting are those mugs shown...doesn't that one green mug (19:52ish) look like the Cobra Fang mug that is sitting on the shelf over there at OA? It would make since I guess...
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Sabu The Coconut Boy
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From: Carson, California
| Posted: 2010-07-02 10:51 pm Permalink
Some more images of the hotel:
 Unfortunately, I don't own this brochure, so can't post a larger or clearer image.
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martian-tiki
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Joined: Sep 19, 2009
Posts: 309 | Posted: 2010-07-07 10:16 pm Permalink
ancient newspaper archives
http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=Hotel+Taharaa&btnG=Search+Archives&hl=en&ned=us&scoring=a
Edit this should filter out the pay per view articles leaving the free links
http://news.google.com/archivesearch?as_q=hotel+taharaa&num=100&hl=en&btnG=Search+Archives&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&ned=us&as_user_ldate=&as_user_hdate=&lr=&as_src=&as_price=p1&as_scoring=a
[ This Message was edited by: martian-tiki 2010-07-07 22:17 ]
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Zeta
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From: Atlantis/Basque Country/Spain/Mexico
| Posted: 2010-07-07 10:27 pm Permalink
Congrats Martian-tiki! One more post and you will become a tiki socialite. I really admire your sources. You are king at posting Hi-res links and obscure connections. Great research! Respect! Sabu and Dusty too, but that's not new.
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bigbrotiki
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From: Tiki Island, above the Silverlake
| Posted: 2010-07-07 10:43 pm Permalink
Wow....hotel employees on the rampage, forcing guests to leave their rooms...if that doesn't spell the deathblow to a hotel, I don't know what does.
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Bay Park Buzzy
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Joined: Apr 07, 2006
Posts: 2715
From: West Bay Park, San Diego, CA
| Posted: 2010-07-07 11:09 pm Permalink
I just found a matchbook from that hotel last weekend:
Buzzy Out!
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martian-tiki
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Joined: Sep 19, 2009
Posts: 309 | Posted: 2010-07-11 4:21 pm Permalink
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On 2010-07-07 22:27, Zeta wrote:
Congrats Martian-tiki! One more post and you will become a tiki socialite. I really admire your sources. You are king at posting Hi-res links and obscure connections. Great research! Respect! Sabu and Dusty too, but that's not new.
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Thanks Zeta - I missed the post where it turned over but thanks for alerting me. You are, I'm sure, the Rey of all spanish tiki-dom.
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Sophista-tiki
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Posts: 1599
From: Seattle WA
| Posted: 2011-01-27 2:00 pm Permalink
once again this is my favorite thread
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Dustycajun
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Posts: 3935
From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2011-09-16 3:29 pm Permalink
I just got this really nice old news wire photo of the A-Frame and the Tiki at the Taharaa Hotel during the pre-opening phase of the project.
Here is the description on the back of the photo.
It is so cool that this Tiki still survives (even if a little shorter). Maybe we can send Hakalugi over to Tahiti to get it rescued (like the Redondo Beach Barney West)!
DC
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bigbrotiki
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Joined: Mar 25, 2002
Posts: 10566
From: Tiki Island, above the Silverlake
| Posted: 2011-09-16 4:47 pm Permalink
Cool pic. Did they trace the outlines for some graphic lay out, you think?
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JONPAUL
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Joined: Jan 12, 2010
Posts: 134
From: Venice, California
| Posted: 2011-09-16 4:58 pm Permalink
Aaaarrrrghhh!!
Damn DC!!! ( I'm just upset out of jealousy! ; - ) )
I was watching that!
It's a fine specimen, indeed.
Congrats, man!
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Dustycajun
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Joined: Nov 16, 2007
Posts: 3935
From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2011-09-16 5:59 pm Permalink
Bigbro,
The photo has some blue/purple hi-lights around the A-Frame and Tiki, not sure what the heck it was for but it looks really cool in person.
JonPaul,
Thanks, having started this thread I was especially stoked to have grabbed this beauty. The old photos are the bomb.
DC
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