Post #13294 by GECKO on Sun, Nov 10, 2002 4:29 AM

Aloha Basement Kahuna,
No, I'm not tiki traders in Honolulu. Thanks for clearing that up Al. I'm just a local boy who loves this culture as much as you and everyone here on TC. So, I carve a tiki now and then. You have a really nice tiki bar by the way.

Poly Pop,
let dem know brah!! If you don't know Filipino's have a very BIG part in this Poly tiki culture...as we say here in Hawaii "go kick rocks"!(get outta here). The Food, art, RATTAN!! What tiki bar have you gone into that does not have rattan funiture?
The fan (Queen) chair is a classic! My mother still has hers in storage from when I was a kid. How about another classic, the large spoon and fork! growing up in the late 70's early 80's in the P.I (Philippines) I seen the spoon and fork in almost every friends house I ever went too! How about the beautiful rattan fish tanks! A must have in any tiki bar! I have 3. I have a picture of me when I was about 7 years old with a black velvet of a topless wahine behind me in my mom and dads room. How I wish we still had that!!

The capice shell lamps, blow fish lamps, come from the P.I. the list goes on and on. I remember my uncles back in the P.I carving those old square tourist tikis to be shipped to hawaii when I was a kid.

O'ya to my brahda Poly Pop and Hula Hula, I chek da kine too "Pacific islander". I haven't met a pinoy or hapa pinoy that dosen't yet.

Shootz!
Gecko-