Post #490125 by bigbrotiki on Sun, Oct 25, 2009 1:06 PM

Whoaa, Tom's got the Google timeline fever :D It's a fun way to spend a Sunday afternoon, fer sure.

Interesting how so many of these articles got wire-serviced out to smaller regional papers:
Your first find was published in the L..A. Times, I reprinted it as the "prevailing opinion of the taste police" in the BOT, page 52.
The Barney West article first saw its first light in a California paper, too, I had posted it here:

http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=22078&forum=1&vpost=276624

But most of the Tampa/ St Petersburg/ Tiki Gardens articles that Mo-Eye found were entirely local:

http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=32633&forum=1&vpost=459486

...and on and on: Just put 'Florida Tiki' author: ' Mo-Eye' into the search engine here, and you will find over a dozen fascinating articles.

Or, just click on this:
http://www.tikicentral.com/search.php?term=Florida+%22Tiki%22&submit=Search&srch=both&frm=all&usr=Mo-Eye&srt=newest

Much work remains to be done for outside of Florida articles, so keep up the good work!

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2009-10-25 13:10 ]