Post #498008 by bigbrotiki on Tue, Dec 8, 2009 5:48 PM

Boris, Swerer's Safari with THAT sign, that building, that band, and that album is truly it!

Tracing back to WHEN and WHERE the pop cliches of a generic African/ Jungle land and its VISUAL icons developed, I would like to begin much earlier than King Kong, very much similar to my time line for what led up to Polynesian pop (in Tiki Modern):

Early Explorers' reports --Adventure authors create fiction--Illustrators (lacking photographs) illustrate that fiction freely:

(1895 illustration for a Jules Verne book)

Early Zoos/ Colonial/World Expos display living natives:

Silent movies beginning with Tarzan:

Serials and 50s exploitation movies run the whole bandwidth of tropical cliches:

"The Big Safari of Voodoo Terror" (!!?)

For my personal interests, and to stay connected to Tiki, I prefer the TROPICS theme:
The term includes Africa, South America, the Carribean, AND the South Seas --everywhere where there was jungle, and natives, and strange rituals.

This is how come that at THE TROPICS Motel in Palm Springs there were Tikis, a Sambo's, and, initially, the Congo Room:

(Above: the Blythe Tropics)

...and that's why SHE is there:

In Pre-Tiki poly pop and later, there were lots of "Tropics":

Many were generic South Seas, but some did have something of an African theme:

...the "Tropics" concept threw a wider net than Polynesia, but could mix with it freely.

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2009-12-09 00:40 ]