Tiki Culture - Geographical Origins - General Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Wed, Jan 26, 2011 12:15 PM On 2011-01-25 15:45, Beach Bum Scott wrote: I am sure that at the time none of them were to worried about just how many tikis a place or a movie had in it. I can't fathom someone in say 1963 saying I'm not going there its not Tiki enough!!! Very true. That's why Tiki style was never recognized in its heyday, it was an unconscious by-product of a general escapism. But that is part of what makes it so fascinating, and such a discovery: In the course of people just having fun, an art form was born. They just didn't know it back then All my above posts (like a large percentage of my TC post in general), deal with Tiki as an ART FORM ( or design style), not primarily the lifestyle that was connected with it. The art form and the lifestyle were inexorably connected, yes, but they are not one and the same.

On 2011-01-25 15:45, Beach Bum Scott wrote:
I am sure that at the time none of them were to worried about just how many tikis a place or a movie had in it.
I can't fathom someone in say 1963 saying I'm not going there its not Tiki enough!!!

Very true. That's why Tiki style was never recognized in its heyday, it was an unconscious by-product of a general escapism. But that is part of what makes it so fascinating, and such a discovery: In the course of people just having fun, an art form was born. They just didn't know it back then

All my above posts (like a large percentage of my TC post in general), deal with Tiki as an ART FORM ( or design style), not primarily the lifestyle that was connected with it. The art form and the lifestyle were inexorably connected, yes, but they are not one and the same.

Post #573406 by bigbrotiki on Wed, Jan 26, 2011 12:15 PM