Post #277089 by bigbrotiki on Sat, Jan 6, 2007 8:06 AM

Hmm..yes...and thanks to Taschen, who distributed the book to popular outlets like pottery barn so Tiki could re-enter pop culture!
I had forgotten this thread, it does seem I repeat myself sometimes....but only every other year or so :)

There is one more item I like to share, the back of the new drink menu of Damon's in Glendale. A classic Polynesian pop establishment, it was sold last year (?) and TCers were worried that it would be renovated, but luckily the new owners kept it all intact (well they added some World Market import masks, unfortunately) and it still looks great, in full bamboo, with beautiful island murals, a big tropical fish tank, orchids lamps, and all. I was very relieved to find it unharmed, but absolutely thrilled to find the BOT quoted on their (otherwise quite simple) drink menu:

That really shows how things have gone full circle, the BOT quoting from old restaurant menus (which sometimes quoted the classics, Don and Vic), and now it is quoted on a menu of a historic urban oasis! For me, that's the ultimate stamp of approval. :)

In a way, the BOT acted like a virtual restaurant: Just like many entrepreneurs in the classic Tiki period took their cues from predecessors like Don and Vic, and then were copied by others, the BOT now forms a link in the never-ending "chain of transmission" of Polynesian pop!