Post #24093 by bigbrotiki on Sun, Feb 23, 2003 5:04 PM

On 2003-02-22 09:15, purple jade wrote:
And how does one get those VHS tapes?

Here is the ordering info:
http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=620&forum=1

(a small aside...Sven, I saw in an old post you actually wrote "y'all". I believe that's neither Californian nor German. You're not a gasp closet Southerner, are you?)

...for some reason, for the first years after I moved to L.A. in the early 80s, I had three Texan girlfriends in a row, one I even met when visiting back home in Hamburg. (So I knew what Fajitas were before anyone else in L.A.)
Texan girls just seemed to have such a nice balance between being good looking and at the same time being level headed...

About the books: Polynesian POP had really never been described before the BOT and Tiki News, so there is not much else out there...
The Grog Log and Intoxica are authoritative and informative. The current Leeteg Book comes to mind.
For old books on personalities that had a formative influence at the time: Trader Vic's auto bio "Frankly Speaking","Senor Kon Tiki" by Arnold Jacoby about Thor Heyerdahl, and "Leeteg of Tahiti" by Barney Davis,...

Hawaiian 20th century and before: "The Aloha Shirt" by Hope/Tozian, "Leis, Luaus and Alohas" by Baston/Phoenix (picture book), and DeSoto Brown's books on Waikiki.
Old books: "Rascals in Paradise" by Michener/Day, and "Here's Hawaii" by Bob Krauss.

True Polynesian culture? Too many to mention. One has to look under the different island groups (Hawaiian, Marquesan, Maori, etc) and under "Oceanic Art" in general.