Post #249381 by Aaron's Akua on Wed, Aug 16, 2006 10:18 PM

Can we enlist the help of some of the early members of this board for a bit of fun Q & A?

The format of this thread is quite simple. Questions are on the Poly-Pop Era, the Rebirth of Tiki, and the Origins of this Website. The old timers talk, us newer members listen & learn. Questions are for anyone who was involved in the genre "way back".

Here's a couple of questions to get things rolling:

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:right: Questions for bigbrotiki (Author of the BOT™):

Who are the people in this picture? (Pg. 13 of the BOT, captioned "Urban Archaeologists examining a fallen idol at the defunct amusement park The Tikis in Lake Elsinore, California.")

Detailed narrative please! What all happened that day? How did you get into the park? And more importantly, do the ruins of The Tikis still exist today?

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:right: Questions for Hanford:

I did a little digging and stumbled upon what I think was the first thread on TC. And here's the archive.org version of the Forums back in 2002. Dug a little further and found an old ghost town on Yahoo!

On 2002-03-23 18:42, hanford_lemoore wrote:
Welcome to this new and cool forum.

Please post and let me know what you think.

So, Hanford. Tell us a bit about the origins of this site. And the Yahoo! Club before that. And the small groups of tiki enthusiasts that might have existed even before that. How did it all get started?

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Let's give these guys a chance to muse a bit, then fire away with your own questions (spread them around). There's a great list of "old timers" on that Yahoo! page....

:right: (next)....

"Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness."
-Pablo Picasso

[ Edited by: Aaron's Akua 2006-08-24 12:30 ]