New Book! Pop Surf Culture - Tiki Marketplace

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Thu, Oct 23, 2008 3:47 PM And what a book it is! Apologies for my earlier post, I just felt it was sort of a moot point to post and announce a book that wasn't gonna be out for another 5 months. But now it IS out, and I just got a copy, and liked it so much I brought it to the Tiki Ti last night to show it to everyone!: http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=9696&forum=17&start=450&453 Sabu sez: I gotta git me one of those! Authors Brian Chidester and Domenic Priore are passionate urban archeologists and determined hunters and collectors of pop culture ephemera, PLUS they track down the individuals and eye witnesses that can tell the story. The fruits of their collaboration could last be enjoyed in Dumb Angel Gazette Nr. 4: http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=15095&forum=12 POP SURF CULTURE is 265 Pages of 50s, 60s and 70s rare eye candy and fascinating writing to back it up. Of course I like the fact that chapter one starts of like this!: (That we see one or two items here previously published in the Book of Tiki is only due to the fact that Domenic Priore lent them to me in the first place, like many other ephemera pictured in the BOT's surfing chapter.) After paying due respect to Tiki, the boys correctly continue with the birthplace of surfing: (You might remember Brian posting about his Waikiki beach boys documentary here on TC) From then on, no aspect of Surf pop culture is left untouched, from music and rare album art... ...to beach fashions... ..to obscure beach movies... ...to whimsical cartoons, and ads like this one: I personally like the chapter on the intersecting of the beach and beatnik scenes: Eric "Big Daddy" Nord with Miss Beatnik 1959 Check out the Cafe Frankenstein in Laguna Beach: That's a stained glass window you see there! And here ladies and gentlemen, my dream pad!: I wanna know if that place still exists!

And what a book it is! Apologies for my earlier post, I just felt it was sort of a moot point to post and announce a book that wasn't gonna be out for another 5 months.

But now it IS out, and I just got a copy, and liked it so much I brought it to the Tiki Ti last night to show it to everyone!:

http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=9696&forum=17&start=450&453
Sabu sez: I gotta git me one of those!

Authors Brian Chidester and Domenic Priore are passionate urban archeologists and determined hunters and collectors of pop culture ephemera, PLUS they track down the individuals and eye witnesses that can tell the story. The fruits of their collaboration could last be enjoyed in Dumb Angel Gazette Nr. 4:

http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=15095&forum=12

POP SURF CULTURE is 265 Pages of 50s, 60s and 70s rare eye candy and fascinating writing to back it up. Of course I like the fact that chapter one starts of like this!:

(That we see one or two items here previously published in the Book of Tiki is only due to the fact that Domenic Priore lent them to me in the first place, like many other ephemera pictured in the BOT's surfing chapter.)
After paying due respect to Tiki, the boys correctly continue with the birthplace of surfing:

(You might remember Brian posting about his Waikiki beach boys documentary here on TC)