Post #44938 by Basement Kahuna on Mon, Jul 28, 2003 10:50 AM

I'm 'readin you, fish. Now, this is but my little opinion (which one can appraise as they please), but it still amazes me, considering all of the resources available on the tiki style now (The B.O.T. pretty much lays it down), what it was about, it's origins, what came together to present the illusion, the utterly entrancing, stress-melting, effect that tiki had on the populace when it was done RIGHT, suppliers of great tiki merch (as well as crap) coming out of the woodwork to get their wares to them, and the basic fact that it's gotten easier AND cheaper to do it right in the past couple of years, -that 99.9 percent of the nincompoop entrepenuers that find the capitol to start up a "tiki" place don't even bother to research, decorate with any taste or tradition, or even attempt to give a starved public ANY sort of quality whatsoever. It seems like it's all on the Wal-Mart standard now, which is "assume the public are idiots and don't want quality". They could learn so much with just one field trip to Trader Vic's, The Mai Kai, The Tonga Room, etc. But they don't bother. They want it fast and easy, therefore their places don't last, either. I want soooo bad to one day open up a new tiki temple that really IS a tiki temple. Nothing but the good stuff.