Post #557552 by uncle trav on Sun, Oct 3, 2010 5:28 AM

One of my favorite things about TC is when an old thread gets dug up by a new member who has memories of one of the many long gone places documented here. It just goes to show how a Tiki themed restaurant or business influenced folks back in the day. Allot of the posts are by people who remember a special night out for dinner as a young kid. Most of the restaurants back in the heyday of Polynesian pop catered to adults so to be allowed into the realm of an adult night out must have had a big effect on the kids. A night out was an event to be remembered for a long time, a thing I think people are jaded to these days. Some posts are from family members or employees of restaurant owners looking for pieces of the past. Some of these folks have allot to add to the history of a location and help fill in the empty spaces of it's history. Other's post a short memory and are never heard from again. I always enjoy the memories that people have of these places even after a visit as a kid forty years past that no postcard or menu cover can capture. I think this quote from Sven's Book Of Tiki by Karl Woermann says it all "Anyone who has ever seen them is thereafter haunted as if by a feverish dream". Goes to show that after years and years some folks are still under the influence of Tiki and don't even know it.

"Anyone who has ever seen them is thereafter haunted as if by a feverish dream" Karl Woermann

[ Edited by: uncle trav 2010-10-03 05:32 ]