Critiki+LAPL Menus=Fabulousness!
Inspired by my recent post regarding old menus, Humuhumu was struck with a great idea: why not leverage the synergy between the fabulous imagery in the L.A. Public Library's searchable index and her wonderful world-wide database of Tiki-osity to achieve an even higher level of vertical integration? She contacted the library, and they readily agreed to her plan.
The upshot to of all this is that now when you search Critiki to locate some contemporary or long-vanished temple of Polynesian-pop, you not only get reviews, photographs, the joint's location on Google Maps, and an array of signature tiki mugs linked to the establishment in question, you also get beaucoup-cool imagery from their menu, like this great cover for The Luau cocktail lounge in Beverly Hills.
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Amazing what you can do with Google Maps. You can even Tikify them.
Posted by: orangeguru | January 26, 2006 06:58 PM
But like everything else Google does, it's still a beta product.
Posted by: MrBaliHai | January 26, 2006 08:33 PM
Thanks for the linkage & kind words! You probably already know this, being a Critiki user & all, but I want to point out that the menu submissions of Mimi Payne eclipse the menus I got from the LAPL by a huge factor -- and it's really only the tip of her papery iceberg! Most of the menus in Critiki are from Mimi, and they're beautiful. Mimi was a big support to me as I was developing Critiki.
Posted by: Humuhumu | January 27, 2006 06:43 AM
Indeed, and I would not want to diminish Mimi's contributions in the slightest.
But I hope by directing more traffic to the LAPL, they'll be motorvated to clean up their broken links and scan in more of their collection!
Posted by: MrBaliHai | January 27, 2006 08:13 AM
Recently stumbled on this little (actually not so little) place over here:http://www.tikiroom.net/gallery/postcards
You probably know it already but if you don't I just KNOW you'll love it.
Posted by: frank | January 27, 2006 01:23 PM
Thanks, Frank! I've been to that site before, but I missed those galleries.
Posted by: MrBaliHai | January 27, 2006 05:57 PM