Post #517761 by Beach Bum Scott on Tue, Mar 16, 2010 12:02 PM

What inspired me?

The Ukulele...

About 2 years ago I started playing the Uke and would sit in the basement working on old school Hapa-Haole songs dreaming of sand between my toes, the sound of surf you know Hawaii...

Well one day sitting in a fish taco place that had thatch on the walls and such, kinda Buffett decor, I look at the wifey and said I want to do this to the basement but in a Hawaiian sort of way. She said "NO WAY, your out of your mind."
I said why not a Tiki Bar Basement would be cool!!! Her reply "No one has those."

At the time I didn't even know about Tiki Central... I found this site because of South Park. I did a Google search for the chords/lyrics to "The Hukilau Song" which is in one of the shows and Tiki Central was one of the places that came up.
"Whats this place" and clicked on the link.
Holy Cow!!! there are people out there that remember the old way of Tiki!!!!

Growing up in SoCal during the 60's I remember the tiki stuff everyhere, but had thought it was dead and gone or turning in to the Thatch and Buffett world of "Tiki" that I know as a SCUBA Instructor...

When we were planning a trip to Vegas for Lei Days and the Ukulele playing that goes on during the event, I read on here about Frankies and knew if we went there she should change her mind.
Well after her eyes got adjusted to the darkness of Frankies she looks at me a said "Is this what your wanting to do?". I just smiled and took a sip of my Lava Letch...
When we got home I started showing her pictures of home/basment bars on the site and she went for it.

[ Edited by: Beach Bum Scott 2010-03-16 17:21 ]