Post #217384 by BryanDeanMartin on Sat, Feb 25, 2006 9:10 PM

I think my opinion much follows JackLord's post...tiki culture will be a subculture only perhaps, but there will always be those who appreciate it. People are still listening to rockabilly, to exotika, to swing, still chopping their cars, still watching Turner Classic Movies, still listening to Beethoven. Good things don't die simply because they lose their popularity. Even if every tiki restaurant and bar does close, there will still be collectors installing their own personal tiki bars. Call it subculture, call it kitsch, call it whatever you want, but these things never die.

And here my opinion diverges...Star Trek is acceptable. I love the 50s/60s visions of the future...the same way that Disney's Tomorrowland was originally the "World of 1987." I graduated high school in 1987, and if only the world was really like that...I may be the only one here who would have loved to live in the Home of the Future, but so be it.