Kona Club, Oakland, CA (bar) - Locating Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Mon, Feb 27, 2006 2:07 PM What I don't get is that nowadays people seem to expect and DEMAND that Tiki bars serve their cocktails in Tiki mugs! Totally forgotten is the fact that four years ago there was not ONE new Tiki bar to be found, that five years ago there were NO Tiki mugs being manufactured at all (except by Bosko). Holden has since worked wonders with Tiki Farm in spreading Tiki culture awareness, AND offering it at an affordable level, but for many the investment in decorating the place alone taps them out. There was a TIKI DESERT out there for ten/twenty years! Be grateful for ANY honest attempt at opening a new Tiki Bar! It's like taking the Book of Tiki and saying "Hey, you guys don't have a waterfall!" Is there any awareness that 90% of the Tiki temples in the book did not exist anymore when it was published, and now that it's closer to 98% now?

What I don't get is that nowadays people seem to expect and DEMAND that Tiki bars serve their cocktails in Tiki mugs! Totally forgotten is the fact that four years ago there was not ONE new Tiki bar to be found, that five years ago there were NO Tiki mugs being manufactured at all (except by Bosko). Holden has since worked wonders with Tiki Farm in spreading Tiki culture awareness, AND offering it at an affordable level, but for many the investment in decorating the place alone taps them out. There was a TIKI DESERT out there for ten/twenty years! Be grateful for ANY honest attempt at opening a new Tiki Bar!

It's like taking the Book of Tiki and saying "Hey, you guys don't have a waterfall!"
Is there any awareness that 90% of the Tiki temples in the book did not exist anymore when it was published, and now that it's closer to 98% now?

Post #217705 by bigbrotiki on Mon, Feb 27, 2006 2:07 PM