Tiki Restaurants • The Big Ten • Middle of the Night update for DC! - Collecting Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Fri, Oct 17, 2008 7:15 AM A good question, and I am looking forward to everybody's lists. To ad up the various (preferably logo-Tiki) artifacts that a Tiki place produced is a good yardstick. Another is their stylistic elaborateness (A-frames, waterfalls, dioramas,etc.) combined with their Tipsy (James Teitelbaum's Tikis-per-square-yard factor). But then there is something less tangible, which is their regional influence. The latter is what I refer to in the Book of Tiki as "Tiki power-places". While Tiki temples like the Mai Kai and the Kahiki are clear examples of both, elaborate execution of the style and having been a mecca for Tiki revelers near and far, there are places like the Lanai in San Mateo or the Jade East in Tulsa who might have been not quite the million dollar Polynesian palaces, but which had a marked influence on the area where they were located. This factor is of course harder to determine than the amount of ephemera from a place found today, so please do not let that keep you from compiling a list of the Tiki places YOU most value. :)

A good question, and I am looking forward to everybody's lists. To ad up the various (preferably logo-Tiki) artifacts that a Tiki place produced is a good yardstick. Another is their stylistic elaborateness (A-frames, waterfalls, dioramas,etc.) combined with their Tipsy (James Teitelbaum's Tikis-per-square-yard factor). But then there is something less tangible, which is their regional influence. The latter is what I refer to in the Book of Tiki as "Tiki power-places".

While Tiki temples like the Mai Kai and the Kahiki are clear examples of both, elaborate execution of the style and having been a mecca for Tiki revelers near and far, there are places like the Lanai in San Mateo or the Jade East in Tulsa who might have been not quite the million dollar Polynesian palaces, but which had a marked influence on the area where they were located.

This factor is of course harder to determine than the amount of ephemera from a place found today, so please do not let that keep you from compiling a list of the Tiki places YOU most value. :)

Post #413784 by bigbrotiki on Fri, Oct 17, 2008 7:15 AM