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The Tiki Lodge, Modesto, CA (hotel) |
Jungle Trader
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Joined: Jan 04, 2003
Posts: 3691
From: Trader's Jungle Outpost, Turlock, Ca.
|  Posted: 2013-03-14 08:13 am Permalink
Name:The Tiki Lodge
Type:hotel
Street:936 McHenry Ave.
City:Modesto
State:CA
Zip:95350
country:USA
Phone:
Status:operational
Description:
The Tiki Lodge. (formerly Rodeway Inn, formerly Tropics Hotel, next to The Tiki Lounge, Tiki Cocktails
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Jungle Trader
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jan 04, 2003
Posts: 3691
From: Trader's Jungle Outpost, Turlock, Ca.
| Posted: 2013-03-14 08:17 am Permalink
Their new logo and sign out front along McHenry.
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[ Edited by: Bora Boris - Did some straightening. - 2013-03-14 21:37 ]
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tobunga
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Apr 12, 2008
Posts: 896 | Posted: 2013-03-14 9:34 pm Permalink
Cool! When did it become the Tiki Lodge? Last time we were in Modesto, it was some kind of city run low-income housing facility.
Glad to see it's back, and with a tiki name, no less!
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Jungle Trader
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jan 04, 2003
Posts: 3691
From: Trader's Jungle Outpost, Turlock, Ca.
| Posted: 2013-03-15 5:22 pm Permalink
Hey Eric, not sure when the change. I was driving up McHenry and saw it the other day. Next time I'll have a look around. Maybe maybe we have come full circle and it will get better, but at least they are not razing the place.
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bigbrotiki
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Joined: Mar 25, 2002
Posts: 10557
From: Tiki Island, above the Silverlake
| Posted: 2013-03-15 8:09 pm Permalink
Ha, how cool! For me, things have already come full circle in seeing this sign using the Hanalei Hotel Tiki from my photo in the Book of Tiki:
He is already the most copied BOT image in the Tiki Revival, but to see him appear on the sign of an authentic Tiki Motel & lounge is really cool 
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Jungle Trader
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jan 04, 2003
Posts: 3691
From: Trader's Jungle Outpost, Turlock, Ca.
| Posted: 2013-03-15 8:39 pm Permalink
Hey how cool is that bigbro. Cheers! We need more "full circles".
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tobunga
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Apr 12, 2008
Posts: 896 | Posted: 2013-03-15 10:22 pm Permalink
Yeah, I thought I recognized that tiki! Congrats again, Sven! (if congratulations are in order...)
And Vic, you're right, we should thank the Tiki Gods that it wasn't razed to become some non-tiki establishment!
Long live Tiki!!!
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Dustycajun
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Nov 16, 2007
Posts: 3916
From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2013-03-15 10:54 pm Permalink
Sort of a double post, much more info here:
Tropics Modesto
DC
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Jungle Trader
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jan 04, 2003
Posts: 3691
From: Trader's Jungle Outpost, Turlock, Ca.
| Posted: 2013-03-15 11:25 pm Permalink
Thanks for the link DC. I couldn't find it.
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bigbrotiki
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Mar 25, 2002
Posts: 10557
From: Tiki Island, above the Silverlake
| Posted: 2013-03-16 07:15 am Permalink
Yeah, those newspaper clippings on the last page of that thread were great finds, DC!
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abstractiki
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Joined: Aug 29, 2009
Posts: 582
From: Lodi, CA
| Posted: 2013-03-17 8:02 pm Permalink
That's awesome news, maybe all the tiki people stopping by to tell them how cool the place used to be got them thinking.
It's so great that some owner sees the value of Tiki and not some Ramada inn Motel 6 wanabe crap.
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Jungle Trader
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jan 04, 2003
Posts: 3691
From: Trader's Jungle Outpost, Turlock, Ca.
| Posted: 2013-03-18 07:36 am Permalink
or perhaps they saw the value of the history. I drove thru the parking lot Saturday afternoon. All 4 tikis remain. Only 5 cars in the parking lot. But it was clean.
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