Don The Beachcomber Obituary - General Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Sun, Aug 5, 2007 8:56 PM On 2007-08-02 17:30, tikipedia wrote: A curious thing about the article. Nowhere is the word "Tiki" used. Is it possible that, by 1989, Tiki was so far in decline that the word did not even come to mind when the obit was written? Is that some kind of trick question...? :) If it is not, it hits the nail on the head, and simply shows how nowadays most people have no memory of how utterly devoid America was of Tiki, both the TERM, and the IMAGE, for decades. And of the fact that "Tiki" was never named that, because it had never been recognized and defined as a style. There was NOTHING...NADA...ZILCH out there! You kids think the concept of urban archaeologist came to me as a fluke? That's what it was before the Internet: digging and unearthing and combing the neighborhoods and thrift stores for years! The mere discovery of the the four letters T-I-K-I was a sensational find! There was no memory of it left, to people I talked to it was like a forgotten, hazy dream. This was the case until the mid-90s: In the early years of the Internet, if you would put in the search word "Tiki", you would get TWO results: One for the Baseball player Tiki Barber, and another for some woman's website she had made for her dog named Tiki. Nowadays everybody behaves like it has always been there, to which I can honestly reply: No, it hasn't. It never even "existed" as a pop phenomenon, because it never was taken seriously in its own heyday. It still is like that to a certain degree, being that we are a relatively small group of cookes compared to the big picture, but that does not compare to Tiki's virtual non-existence only 10/15 years ago. Aaaw, kids today, tiz tiz... :) [ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2007-08-05 20:58 ]

On 2007-08-02 17:30, tikipedia wrote:
A curious thing about the article. Nowhere is the word "Tiki" used.

Is it possible that, by 1989, Tiki was so far in decline that the word did not even come to mind when the obit was written?

Is that some kind of trick question...? :)

If it is not, it hits the nail on the head, and simply shows how nowadays most people have no memory of how utterly devoid America was of Tiki, both the TERM, and the IMAGE, for decades. And of the fact that "Tiki" was never named that, because it had never been recognized and defined as a style. There was NOTHING...NADA...ZILCH out there!

You kids think the concept of urban archaeologist came to me as a fluke? That's what it was before the Internet: digging and unearthing and combing the neighborhoods and thrift stores for years! The mere discovery of the the four letters T-I-K-I was a sensational find! There was no memory of it left, to people I talked to it was like a forgotten, hazy dream.

This was the case until the mid-90s: In the early years of the Internet, if you would put in the search word "Tiki", you would get TWO results: One for the Baseball player Tiki Barber, and another for some woman's website she had made for her dog named Tiki.

Nowadays everybody behaves like it has always been there, to which I can honestly reply: No, it hasn't. It never even "existed" as a pop phenomenon, because it never was taken seriously in its own heyday.

It still is like that to a certain degree, being that we are a relatively small group of cookes compared to the big picture, but that does not compare to Tiki's virtual non-existence only 10/15 years ago.

Aaaw, kids today, tiz tiz... :)

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2007-08-05 20:58 ]

Post #323459 by bigbrotiki on Sun, Aug 5, 2007 8:56 PM