Post #182744 by bigbrotiki on Mon, Aug 29, 2005 11:27 AM

Well if you ask me...(and The Jab did):

I love LA, it is THE terrain for the urban archaeologist of any persuasion. This vast urban jungle (desert?) is inhabited by such a jumble of lost and forgotten styles (hidden under layers of ugliness), where everyone once built their own version of Shangri-La, it never gets boring.

And Tiki began here (with Donn Beach and Stephen Crane) and ended here, then was reborn again:

This is where I met Jeff Berry, Otto, Doug Miller, Josh Agle, Bosko, Mark Ryden, Charles Schneider, and all the other crazies and mod-comers that were into Tiki. It's also where I stumbled into the Sea & Jungle shop, drank my first Zombie at the Tiki Ti, AND discovered Oceanic Arts, the decisive event that made me begin my work on the Book of Tiki. And where it came together when my publisher moved into the Chemosphere. And and and...

So it's clearly Tiki Town USA for me.