Welcome to the Tiki Central 2.0 Beta. Read the announcement
Celebrating classic and modern Polynesian Pop

Tiki Central / General Tiki / How did you find Tiki Central?

Post #230642 by Tikiwahine on Fri, May 5, 2006 11:12 AM

You are viewing a single post. Click here to view the post in context.

Finding Tiki Central is one thing, finding tiki is totally different.

How and when did you discover tiki?

For me it was a slow progression. As a young girl I took hula dancing lessons & won the roller skating Hawaiian Costume Contest every year. My Grammie was big into Hawaii & Tahiti, and she had a wonderful(though not tiki) basement bar. She owned the hula wiggler I use as my signature. When she passed away in 2003 I had just begun my decent into tiki, and asked for it from her estate.

I got into drink mixing & tropical gardening at a young adult. When my husband and I bought our home he asked me to think of a theme for our future bar - I knew I wanted tropical plants, and I knew I wanted vintage. I became hooked with the idea of dark, mysterious exotic hideaways full of nautical oddities, carved tikis & lots of bamboo. I searched around online and found TC, widening my knowledge of the whole Polynesian Pop past & present.