Tropics Restaurant & Congo Room Bar Opening Celebration - California Events

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Sun, Jul 4, 2010 12:01 PM Great post, Kreepy Tiki, and congrats to John. This is what the Motel really needed, a modern and hip running bar and restaurant. I love that place, despite the original owner's indifference to the Tiki community. Mahalo forever to Casey Jones and his partner for saving its Tiki-ness in the first place, to Otto for making it a legendary event venue, to Bamboo Ben and Crazy Al to putting all this work in for free, and to Bosko and CC for their art, and to Rory for keeping that spirit alive. I don't understand why some folks are bent on alienating the Tiki Central community by posting such weird posts as this tikiliki1 person. Granted, TC is a small group compared to the "un-incorporated" Tiki lovers out there, but what we might lack in numbers, we bring forth in pure love and enthusiasm for the culture, so why be divisive? In any case, the Caliente Tropics is, together with the Tiki Resort at Lake George on the East Coast, the last well preserved example of Tiki MOTEL architecture, and deserves all the love, appreciation and patronage it can get! :)

Great post, Kreepy Tiki, and congrats to John. This is what the Motel really needed, a modern and hip running bar and restaurant. I love that place, despite the original owner's indifference to the Tiki community. Mahalo forever to Casey Jones and his partner for saving its Tiki-ness in the first place, to Otto for making it a legendary event venue, to Bamboo Ben and Crazy Al to putting all this work in for free, and to Bosko and CC for their art, and to Rory for keeping that spirit alive. I don't understand why some folks are bent on alienating the Tiki Central community by posting such weird posts as this tikiliki1 person. Granted, TC is a small group compared to the "un-incorporated" Tiki lovers out there, but what we might lack in numbers, we bring forth in pure love and enthusiasm for the culture, so why be divisive?

In any case, the Caliente Tropics is, together with the Tiki Resort at Lake George on the East Coast, the last well preserved example of Tiki MOTEL architecture, and deserves all the love, appreciation and patronage it can get! :)

Post #540733 by bigbrotiki on Sun, Jul 4, 2010 12:01 PM