m a massive fan of exotica and lounge music and enjoy nothing better than scouring the charity shops for a new gem to add to my LP collection! Les Baxter is one my favourites, so I'
FROM ISSUE #165 The mai tai at Dragon 88, a scruffy suburban Chinese restaurant an hour west of Boston, is the color of tea. It's served over crushed ice, a plastic skewer spearing maraschino cherries and pineapple chunks emerging from a fine white froth on its top.
In Ft. Lauderdale, it's a weekend for carved wooden idols, Hawaiian shirts and tropical drinks. It's the Hukilau, an annual gathering of fans of all things tiki — as in faux-Polynesia — a fad that a dedicated legion of devotees say is back.
To honor Les' passing, a day belatedly. Lover's Luau- Les Paul and Mary Ford. Columbia Hi-Fi LP
Quelques jours pour faire le tour de Tahiti et découvrir ses richesses cachées - Polynésie Française
The moment Elvis Presley floated down the lagoon at the Coco Palms Resort with Hawaiian flowers around his neck, serenading his new island bride in 1960s panavision technicolor, the hotel had solidified its place as one of the most desirable couples’ destinations on the planet. It would forever be the setting of the classic mid-century…
Ranking of the top 14 things to do in Hawaii - The Big Island. Travelers favorites include #1 Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park, #2 Akaka Falls State Park and more.
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A great way to kick off this blog is to showcase the Waikikian Hotel, a shinning example of extreme tiki architecture. The Waikikian Hotel, billed as Hawaii's Most Beautiful Hotel, was built in 1956 in Waikiki, Hawaii. It was designed by a local architect named Pete Wimberly and his Honolulu architectural firm Wimberly & Cook. Pete was responsible for establishing the tropical resort design style in Hawaii. Prior to the mid 1950's, most of the architecture of the resorts on the islands in Hawaii were based on plantation or colonial designs. Pete's exotic designs in Hawaii included the The Waikikian, the International Market Place, Don the Beachcomber Restaurant (Pete and Don Beach were close personal friends), The Coco Palms Resort, the Kona Hilton and several more. Pete was a very laid back personality and would show up to his office in shorts, short sleeve shirt and sandals while others in the profession were wearing suits and ties to work. One of his quirks was that he hated air conditioning. He would close off the vents in his office and open the windows to allow the constant tropical breeze found in Hawaii to flow through his office. He echoed this philosophy when he designed the Waikikian. The resort did not have AC. Pete excelled at the conceptual designs of his projects. He would comment that his job was to create sketches and the other architects in his firm would be responsible to create the plans and designs based on his rough sketches. Here is one of Pete's drawings for the Waikikian. Based on this sketch, a color rendering was created. It was also reproduced and sold as a print in the lobby of the hotel.
International Marketplace, Waikiki Original Rum Drinks and Polynesian Cocktails
The tumultuous history of Hawai‘i—from the first encounter of an island civilization with intruding explorers to its subjugation as a colonial outpost of America—has been told many times. Susanna Moore, who grew up in Hawai‘i and has set some of her novels there, offers a new rendering of this island saga. Neither a professional historian nor an anthropologist, Moore combines a novelist’s skill at individual characterization with an eye for ethnographic detail, and brings a fresh perspective to what more than anything was a tragic clash between Native and Other.
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Prints are available in the following sizes: LIMITED EDITION GICLEE ON CANVAS 12"X24" Each limited edition giclee print measures 12"x24" on gallery-wrapped, stretched canvas. Giclees are wired and ready to hang - no framing necessary! All limited editions are inspected, signed and numbered by Nan Coffey. Edition size of 95. FINE ART PAPER PRINT 8"X14" Printed on high quality fine art paper using archival pigment inks. Print size includes borders. All prints inspected and signed by Nan! Frame not included. Original painting has been sold! All images are Copyright ©2017 Nan Coffey. Purchase does not entitle buyer to any reproduction rights in whole or part in any form. All rights reserved.
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Absinthe is a high-alcohol spirit that's distilled from fennel, anise, and wormwood, and flavored with other herbs. The dominant flavor of the spirit is black licorice, thanks to the anise and fennel used to make it. Preparing absinthe...
You've seen her hanging around tiki bars, swiveling her hips seductively but woodenly indifferent to the scene around her. She's often found bobbing and p...
When you stay at Tiki Resort in Lake George, you'll be near the beach and minutes from Lake George Forum and Fort William Henry. Featured amenities include a 24-hour business center, dry cleaning/laundry services, and a 24-hour front desk. Planning an event in Lake George? This hotel has 2800 square feet (260 square meters) of space consisting of conference space and meeting rooms. Free self parking is available onsite.
Offered for sale is this Tiki necklace, which is an exact replica of the ones worn by JD and Turk in the hit television show Scrubs, during Season 8, from the episode "My Soul on Fire, Pt 1". This pendant was a spoof on the original Brady Bunch television show's Hawaiian episode, which featured a cursed tiki idol found and worn by Greg Brady. Here's a link to the video clip of them wearing the tikis from the episode of Scrubs: http://www.thefoolsgold.net/necklaces/scrubs-jd-and-turk-get-brady-bunch-tiki-necklaces Made from durable resin, each one is cast by hand from an original master sculpt and then hand painted. Tikis include a black hemp cord. The cord is sized long so that the buyer can adjust it to suit his/her length preferences. They measure approx 4.5" tall x 1.75" wide x 1" deep Shipping info: US orders: I ship 1-2 days after payment is received. Most orders arrive in 2-3 days after that. In some rare instances, it can take as long as 5-7 days for them arrive after I ship them. International orders: Most western european orders arrive about 5-7 days after I ship them. However, international arrival times are inconsistent and some orders have taken as long as 20 days to arrive. SPECIAL ITALY SHIPPING NOTICE: Italy takes longer than 4 weeks to arrive after shipping. Please be aware of this if you are from Italy. There is NO tracking available for international orders. Check my etsy store for other fine handmade Tiki products. View my portfolio at www.sandiegotikifactory.com
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Pu'uhonua o Honaunau National Park is home to several pieces of Hawaiian history including these two ki'i. The ki'i (wooden statues with a human form) act as guardians to the bay and the nearby heiau (temple).
A continuation of a look at Easter Island (Rapa Nui) and its statues, prompted by an email that the statues had recently been discovered to have bodies below ground. I mentioned last week that there would be 2 parts but that was optimistic. Part 3 will be posted next week. There may be a Part 4. I find the island and its various aspects fascinating; hopefully, through these posts and otherwise, you may also so find. _______________ The island and its inhabitants have endured famines, epidemics, civil war, slave raids, colonialism deforestation and precipitous population declines. Many of these aspects have had an effect on, or been intertwined with, the island’s famous statues. The Statues: There are 887 statues and they are known as moai. They were carved between the years 1250 and 1500. The moai were made at a quarry inside an extinct volcano, the material for construction being tuff, a compressed, solidified volcanic ash. This material was already soft and, in addition, was wet prior to and during sculpting. There are also 13 moai carved from basalt, , 22 from trachytes and 17 from fragile red scoria. The quarry is named Rano Raraku. There are 394 complete and incomplete moai at the quarry. Only one quarter of the moai were installed. Half still remain at the quarry. Pics of the quarry and unfinished moai Map showing the location of the quarry and the completed moai. Numerous moai were worked on at any one time. A single moai took a team of five or six men approximately one year to complete. The largest moai, named “Paro”, is nearly 10m (32 feet) long and weighs 82 tons. One unfinished sculpture, if completed, would have been approximately 21 metres (69 ft) tall with a weight of about 270 tons. Experts believe it would have been too heavy and too large to move. Eyes and Hats: Archaeologists discovered in 1979 that the deep eye sockets of some of the moai were designed to hold white coral with pupils made of black obsidian or red scoria. It is believed that the colouring of the eyes of some of the moai was reflective of a Rapa Nui hierarchy, referred to in greater detail below. About 100 of the moai have hats or topknots, called pukao, made from red scoria, a light red volcanic stone that was obtained from a another quarry, Puna Pau. The pukao are cylindrical with a dent underneath to facilitate being balanced on top of the moai heads. The pukao varied in size in proportion to the moai they were to adorn, some up to 3 metres in height and 3 metres in diameter. It is believed that the pukao represented dressed hair or headdresses of red feathers worn by chiefs throughout Polynesia. It is still not known how they were raised to the top of the moai. Re-erected tuff moai at Ahu Tahai with restored pukao and replica eyes Other markings and carvings: The material from which nearly all the moai are sculpted, tuff, is a soft compressed volcanic ash. This made it easy to carve and subsequently smooth with pumice, but it also has made the moai susceptible to erosion. The moai carved from basalt and those protected by burial reveal detail carved on the backs and posterior surfaces. The designs carved on the moai were culturally linked to the traditional tattooing that was carried out by the Rapa Nui until repressed by missionaries in the 19th century. In 1868 the British ship HMS Topaze visited Easter Island and took one of the moai back to England, a unique example in that it is one of the 16 moai that was carved from basalt rather than tuff. It is named Hoa Hakananai'a which, in Rapa Nui, means “stolen friend”. Measuring about 2.5m in height and showing a torso with shrunken arms in addition to the head, it is now in the British Museum. Curiously the body was painted red and white when first observed but the paint was washed off during transportation to England. The statue wears a loincloth (known as a maro) and the back is richly decorated with carvings relating to the island’s Birdman cult (refer comments later). Transporting the statues: The manner of transporting the statues has not been positively identified. It was previously thought that they were moved horizontally on timber logs, that process denuding the island of its trees. More recently a team of archaeologists demonstrated that a relatively small number of people could make the moai “walk” to their destinations by the use of ropes, a hypothesis supported by fallen moai alongside the roads that were used for transporting them. See a video of a moai replica being made to walk at: http://www.thetruthbehindthescenes.org/2012/10/31/easter-island-giant-statues-walked-video/ Another website claims that the walking method was explained by a Rapa Nui guide and that its use was facilitated by the bases being curved rather than flat: http://www.astroshow.com/Eclipse/Moai/MoaiWalked.html A very good and detailed examination of the walking method, and of the raising of the statues, appears at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440312004311 The movement of the larger statues by “walking”, over varied terrain, has been disputed by others. The precise method remains a mystery but it is also possible that a combination of methods was used.
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Persistent URL: floridamemory.com/items/show/61430 Local call number: pr21848 Title: Mai Kai girls with football player in garden at Mai-Kai Restaurant - Fort Lauderdale Date: ca 1971 Physical descrip: 1 photoprint - b&w - 10 x 8 in. Series Title: Print Collections Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida 500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL, 32399-0250 USA, Contact: 850.245.6700, [email protected]
When I saw Beth's post about pineapple upside down cake for today, I remembered this postcard from Hawaii , with pineapple centre stage. ...
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