Post #201577 by SilverLine on Sun, Dec 4, 2005 1:58 PM

I like it too! An often-used phrase in National Register of Historic Places nominations is "a sense of time and place." It simply means that if you're standing in a National Register district, in say Charleston, SC for example, you should feel somewhat transported to that local's period of significance. It shouldn't be difficult to imagine carriges in the streets, people in 1850's dress, ect. Modern billboards, sliding glass doors, asphalt roofs, etc. all get in the way of that sense of time and place.

A good Tiki establishment should also transport the visitor to a different place, perhaps a different time as well. Maybge this is getting harder to do these days; maybe people don't want to experience this in these times of chain-stores in every city and every state . . all alike.