Tonga Room SF (Not) to be demolished? - General Tiki

CAA Chip and Andy Member Corner table, Molokai Lounge, Mai-Kai. Joined: Jul 13, 2004 Posts: 2277	CAA Chip and Andy Posted posted on Tue, Mar 17, 2009 5:13 AM On 2009-03-15 08:53, TikiMookie wrote: What is really disturbing is reading some of these posts that agree with the "let it go" remarks.. Maybe some people need to take a long hard look at themselves and their "so called" love of all things tiki? Yes things get old and run down, but once it's gone, it won't be back.... Yes..... But no..... Your wrong. My love of all things Tiki has nothing to do with what is open and what is closed, it has nothing to do with what I own or don't own. My love of Tiki is my own and is based solely on my knowledge of what was there. I never went to the Kahiki before it closed, but that doesn't mean I don't love it. I've never been to the Tiki Ti, but that doesn't mean I love it any less. I don't WANT to see it go, that would be a terrible loss! What I also don't want to see is a bunch of well meaning people set up a situation where the owners are forced into keeping the Tonga Room open against their wishes. That is a recipe for disaster, for them, for us, for everyone. There are only two ways you can 'save' the Tonga Room. First.... you have to go there. Often. You have to get other people to go there and go there often. You have to get asses in the seats on a regular basis so the place makes money. Second.... you have to make what it is important to management. Management will then make it important to Upper Management, and so on. If the people in control of the place see it for what it is, a money-making Tiki bar, instead of what it could be, like a Sports bar or something, then the Tonga Room will be saved. We, as the lovers of Tiki, have to make the Tonga Room important to those who don't know what Tiki is. We have to stop talking in here where we're preaching to the choir, or however that cliche goes, and take it to the streets. To the unwashed masses. Make the Tonga Room like the Tiki Statue of Liberty.... give us your tired, thirsty, masses. And none of that has anything to do with my own personal "so-called" love of Tiki.

On 2009-03-15 08:53, TikiMookie wrote:
What is really disturbing is reading some of these posts that agree with the "let it go" remarks.. Maybe some people need to take a long hard look at themselves and their "so called" love of all things tiki?

Yes things get old and run down, but once it's gone, it won't be back....

Yes.....

But no..... Your wrong.

My love of all things Tiki has nothing to do with what is open and what is closed, it has nothing to do with what I own or don't own. My love of Tiki is my own and is based solely on my knowledge of what was there. I never went to the Kahiki before it closed, but that doesn't mean I don't love it. I've never been to the Tiki Ti, but that doesn't mean I love it any less.

I don't WANT to see it go, that would be a terrible loss!

What I also don't want to see is a bunch of well meaning people set up a situation where the owners are forced into keeping the Tonga Room open against their wishes. That is a recipe for disaster, for them, for us, for everyone.

There are only two ways you can 'save' the Tonga Room.

First.... you have to go there. Often. You have to get other people to go there and go there often. You have to get asses in the seats on a regular basis so the place makes money.

Second.... you have to make what it is important to management. Management will then make it important to Upper Management, and so on.

If the people in control of the place see it for what it is, a money-making Tiki bar, instead of what it could be, like a Sports bar or something, then the Tonga Room will be saved.

We, as the lovers of Tiki, have to make the Tonga Room important to those who don't know what Tiki is. We have to stop talking in here where we're preaching to the choir, or however that cliche goes, and take it to the streets. To the unwashed masses. Make the Tonga Room like the Tiki Statue of Liberty.... give us your tired, thirsty, masses.

And none of that has anything to do with my own personal "so-called" love of Tiki.

Post #440558 by Chip and Andy on Tue, Mar 17, 2009 5:13 AM