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Portland Kon Tiki and other defunct Portland tiki bars |
hang10tiki
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jul 18, 2010
Posts: 7054
From: Las Vegas
|  Posted: 2017-01-16 7:26 pm Permalink
Good 1
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Teadoir
Tiki Centralite
Joined: Dec 04, 2013
Posts: 65
From: Oregon
| Posted: 2017-02-07 10:51 pm Permalink
My wife works across the street. Her response when I told her there used to be a great tiki bar there? "Figures."
Now I'm irked because now I've another set of items I feel the need to collect...
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Dustycajun
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Joined: Nov 16, 2007
Posts: 5031
From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2017-02-24 4:20 pm Permalink
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On 2016-08-27 14:18, tikicoma wrote:
And my guess is that this is the 12 foot tiki they were talking about... just guessing but it possibly cedar carved to look like palm.
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I picked up this news photo of the restaurant manager standing next to the Tiki in the Vintage Roadside photo, sure looks to be 12 feet tall. You'll note that he is holding a Steve Crane Salt shaker/pepper.
The back of the photos states that the Tiki was a gift from the sheriff of Honolulu, so it is a Hawaiian Palm at that.
DC
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tikicoma
Grand Member (6 years) 
Joined: Jan 16, 2010
Posts: 697
From: wakinekona
| Posted: 2017-02-24 8:55 pm Permalink
Thanks Dusty... and oops. I forgot to update on this thread that (like I did on the Bumatay thread) McVay said it was too deeply carved to have been his. But if you look at it it matches Bumatay's style and apparently he was carving in Hawaii before he came to the mainland. And if that's palm it probably was pretty quickly beat up by the wet northwest weather.
Dusty is the date on that news photo 1959?
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aquarj
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Joined: Apr 02, 2002
Posts: 1101
From: SF bay area, CA
| Posted: 2017-02-28 1:45 pm Permalink
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| On 2017-02-24 16:20, Dustycajun wrote:
I picked up this news photo of the restaurant manager standing next to the Tiki in the Vintage Roadside photo, sure looks to be 12 feet tall. You'll note that he is holding a Steve Crane Salt shaker/pepper.
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That's a spectacular photo DC!
-Randy
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Dustycajun
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Nov 16, 2007
Posts: 5031
From: Santa Barbara, CA
| Posted: 2017-03-02 11:35 am Permalink
Thanks Randy! So if that picture marked the beginning of Portland Kon Tiki, this next one marked the end. I got another newspaper photo that was taken after the Sheraton changed hands and became the Red Lion in 1981 at the height of Tiki devolution. The Kon Tiki was on the way out and they were GIVING the Tikis away to guests!
DC
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DixonAlibi
Grand Member (first year) 
Joined: Aug 01, 2015
Posts: 64
From: NYC from PDX
| Posted: 25 days ago; 7:17 pm Permalink
Howdy!
I was wondering if you’ve been able to find any other photos or anything from any of these old Portland Tiki Bars!
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