The Jungle-style Thread - Pop Culture Iconography of the Dark Continent - General Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Sun, Nov 29, 2009 5:55 PM Very good! That shows how much of a pop icon he was, perpetuating another spin off. And the history of the character is the history of 20th Century American pop culture in a nut shell: From Hollywood hero, to Cartoon, to Sexploitation flic! :D We will never know if Vic (or Vic's wife) was influenced by the movie's popularity, but what would you do if you start a business (or re-name it) to appeal to a new target group that is supposed to to equate you with adventure and exotic recipes: You pick something that is already associated with that. Just like Ernest Raymond Beaumont Gant perhaps, who, opened a business as DON The Beachcomber -5 Years after Don Blanding had become popular with his "Vagabond's House" and other tales of exotic ports of call in the South Seas. [ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2009-11-29 19:35 ]

Very good! That shows how much of a pop icon he was, perpetuating another spin off. And the history of the character is the history of 20th Century American pop culture in a nut shell:
From Hollywood hero, to Cartoon, to Sexploitation flic! :D

We will never know if Vic (or Vic's wife) was influenced by the movie's popularity, but what would you do if you start a business (or re-name it) to appeal to a new target group that is supposed to to equate you with adventure and exotic recipes: You pick something that is already associated with that.

Just like Ernest Raymond Beaumont Gant perhaps, who, opened a business as DON The Beachcomber -5 Years after Don Blanding had become popular with his "Vagabond's House" and other tales of exotic ports of call in the South Seas.

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2009-11-29 19:35 ]

Post #496350 by bigbrotiki on Sun, Nov 29, 2009 5:55 PM