Post #101948 by Benzart on Thu, Jul 15, 2004 5:06 PM

Go ahead pop a few buttons swelling with pride Big Bro. I'm sure the BOT didn't start the Tiki revolution by itself, but I'm Positive it kept it going after it kindled the fire. There are photos in your book that really spark the imagination of how it once was and many people want it back again. Like you say many new establishments were hatched out of the BOT nad that in turn inspired many more and we are seeing the snowball roll down the mountan.
Years ago I used to carve Many other things besides tiki and Now I don't see how I can carve anything But tiki.
I was unaware of the BOT until I found my way here (or Stumbled in). I can say the bOt presented to me gave me More than inspiration. In it there was a whole family hiding and loving tiki.
The people I have shown my book to have been blown away also and most ,like me, had no idea it was there and that there was sush an interest in tiki. The Nice thing is how redily they have embraced tiki and made it aprt of their life, even if only to buy the book. I joined a woodcarvers club of crochity old farts who mostly carved birds and looked down on anything else. Now I seem to be the center of their attention in Nice ways and I hear the OLD stories about their past tiki experiences.
Anyway you may not have started it but you Preserved a big chunk of it and made it easy for people to accept thai it is not a passing fad. You did it Sven, not the BOT.