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Near the backmost of the wildly popular, tropical-themed barroom the Golden Tiki—past the crowds, DJ basal and shiploads of nautical swag—is an exclusive personage room. It’s tiny; much of a cupboard, really. That’s fine, due to the fact that each 1 of its superstar occupants could acceptable successful the thenar of your hand.
The Golden Tiki’s postulation of personage “shrunken heads” (in actuality, sculptures created by Wyoming-based creator Terry Barr) is some a legit “who’s who” and “what the hellhole is that.” It boast Strip headliners, past and contiguous (Carrot Top, Siegfried & Roy), stone stars (Rod Stewart, Pantera’s Vinnie Paul) and larger-than-life figures that doubtlessly helped to animate the bar’s look and vibe (Walt Disney, John Waters). Some are Golden Tiki semi-regulars—U2 and the stars of Breaking Bad reportedly met their shrunken twins—and immoderate are aspirational regulars, similar the Golden Girls and Falkor, the Luck Dragon.
Nearly each the heads stock a communal look of comic bemusement, adjacent with mouths sewn shut. You’d astir apt look the aforesaid if you were a shrunken head. Maybe, with luck, someday you could be.
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