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Post #2545 by atomictonytiki on Fri, Jun 21, 2002 6:23 AM

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The Great Rita Hayworth in "Miss Sadie Thompson" Columbia Pictures (1952)you can find a synopsis of it here http://members.tripod.com/~claudia79/sadie.html

It contains almost no tiki's but its an important depiction of the roots of suburban tiki, with G.I.'s living it up in tropical paradise, it has a proto tiki bar called "jimmys" in it run by a chinese man, (the bars the template for a hundred bamboo and fishing float places) and gratuitus hula scenes.