Post #113080 by foamy on Wed, Sep 8, 2004 1:56 PM

Urban Tiki, yeah, you've pretty much summed it up. Tiki was never a big part of my childhood, but un-like many people, I was fortunate to have a great upbringing. Our family was never never wealthy, lower middle class at best, but my parents and their friends sure knew how to have fun. It's something I don't see anymore. Our whole neighborhood was aquainted (parents as well as children) and when anything went on, everyone was welcome. My parents and relatives (unknowingly) taught me how to party. Days and weeks at the beach with other families, martini's, rare steaks and three piece combos in the corner of the dining room restaurants. I remember* it as being grand. And now I aspire to emulate it. Tough row to hoe. But, I'm doing my best. Does anyone remember the comic book-like "Car Toons"? Monster trucks and tractor pulls have made that reality. It was incredibly far fetched at the time. Manx bodied "dune buggies" on VW frames were the rage then. OK. I've dated myself. Satan's Sin said it very well in another post:

"How I'd love to come to my Eichler home after a hard day of -- advertising? nuclear engineering? industrial design? -- to a hot honey in one of those long dresses (capri pants would also do) who'd greet me with a no-holds-barred Manhattan and a technicolor dinner from one of those cookbooks ... then search the three channels on the B&W TV console and watch The Honeymooners ... then switch on the aircraft-carrier-sized hi-fi for some "real" ultra-lounge ... a nightly routine to be broken only by a visit to the nearby Polynesian restaurant or maybe my old Army buddies and their wives coming by for giant steaks and even more gigantic drinks ... sigh ....

There was a "Twilight Zone" were a stressed ad exec goes back to Willoughby ... and sees his childhood self in some sort of Disney Main Street world ... maybe it's time for a 21st Century guy to visit his midcentury doppleganger? "

Aaaah... The visions have never left. Tiki played a bigger part when I became a car driving teenager... cocktails, ya know?

[ Edited by: foamy on 2004-09-08 14:00 ]