Post #427597 by blowtiki on Tue, Jan 6, 2009 11:07 PM

Thank you Bay Park Buzzy, Robertiki, bigbrotiki and sweetpea for adding your input to my posting. To answer bigbrotiki's question as to why I found it strange to come across this tiki in Washington, a couple of reasons. Part of has to be my perspective, I'm a SoCal kid (this is arguably the center of contemporary tiki ) and I never experienced the original Poly Pop tiki craze. The other part has to do with the placing of this tiki, that part of Washington is pretty rural, real small town, the boonies. I just don't think that tiki would be appreciated in rural Washington as the entry icon to a gated community. We spent a week up in that area and I saw many a sculpted log along the lines of a lumberjack or grizzly bear. Then to see a tiki, it was kind of surprising. I imagine like seeing a totem pole in Tahiti.