50th Anniversary of Hawaiian Statehood this year! - General Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Fri, Jan 30, 2009 11:57 AM Yup. And here is some fascinating literature to brush up on all that other fun stuff, too! : As I mentioned above, the "gifts of civilization" are a sensitive issue --not only pertaining to Hawaii and Polynesia, but many other cultures in this world. The burgeoning awareness of these played a big role in the disapperance of Tiki style. What I am more interested in is the effect that the event of statehood had on the flowering of mainland Tiki style. I was recently talking to a collector friend who asked me "Do you have any concrete mention in mid-century media about the onset of Tiki style", like in trade papers. He used the example of the impact of the building of Disneyland, which practically "invented" and fostered amusement parks all over the country. This made me again realize that the fact that Tiki's heyday happened from the late 50s to the mid-60s uncannily parallels Hawaiian statehood. The construction of Tiki apartments, motels and bowling alleys jumped noticeably AFTER 1959. So I am looking for trade or lifestyle magazines that DIRECTLY refer to the event of Hawaiian statehood in their descriptions of their Tiki developments. Below are some examples of the kind of articles I mean: Now the above article does not mention Hawaii specifically, but the next one from 1962 does...(yet not statehood!):

Yup. And here is some fascinating literature to brush up on all that other fun stuff, too! :

As I mentioned above, the "gifts of civilization" are a sensitive issue --not only pertaining to Hawaii and Polynesia, but many other cultures in this world. The burgeoning awareness of these played a big role in the disapperance of Tiki style.

What I am more interested in is the effect that the event of statehood had on the flowering of mainland Tiki style. I was recently talking to a collector friend who asked me "Do you have any concrete mention in mid-century media about the onset of Tiki style", like in trade papers. He used the example of the impact of the building of Disneyland, which practically "invented" and fostered amusement parks all over the country.

This made me again realize that the fact that Tiki's heyday happened from the late 50s to the mid-60s uncannily parallels Hawaiian statehood. The construction of Tiki apartments, motels and bowling alleys jumped noticeably AFTER 1959. So I am looking for trade or lifestyle magazines that DIRECTLY refer to the event of Hawaiian statehood in their descriptions of their Tiki developments. Below are some examples of the kind of articles I mean:

Now the above article does not mention Hawaii specifically, but the next one from 1962 does...(yet not statehood!):

Post #431609 by bigbrotiki on Fri, Jan 30, 2009 11:57 AM