Post #327749 by bigbrotiki on Thu, Aug 23, 2007 3:52 PM

Great stuff! Please note the relative sparse use of TIKIS in the ads and articles, which basically supports my theory that Tiki style was a MAINLAND phenomenon. If Island businesses used Tikis at all, they mostly were AUTHENTIC reproductions. The wild and wacky mainland designs would have been viewed as tacky and tasteless. The distance to the source allowed the mainlanders to interprete the culture more freely, clearly making it POP CULTURE.