Post #106147 by bananabobs on Wed, Aug 4, 2004 12:09 AM

I was born in 1955, my folks enjoyed the Polynesian scene but had very little in the house save a coco bollo salad bowl or two, Dad used to say Monkey Pod wooden bowls but I have never seen that name any where. They went out often and the Reef in Long Beach was a favorite, as was the Sea Lion Inn in Malibu. We would vacation at Shelter Island Inn and go to Bali Hai every night. No wonder TiKi is in my blood. I remember a friend of my parents lived in Point Dume and had a TiKi bar in an enclosed patio, it had lava rock waterfalls and tropical plants, my folks thought that it was groovy but would never do that at our place. There was a guy down the street that lived for Wagon train and his whole house was western and my folks thought he was nuts. Other friends had a moderne home and had a silver tinsel Christmas tree with a color wheel in front of a floodlight, so the tree went front blue to pink to green, My Dad thought he was a commie. All that to say, I think most people “went to” TiKi but did not live it, only the nuts like us now, did then…Others had their passions of the era as well but most people lived quiet lives of boring desperation.

[ Edited by: bananabobs on 2004-08-04 00:10 ]