Post #582779 by TikiTomD on Thu, Mar 31, 2011 6:39 PM

Thank you, Sven and Trav, for the encouragement. It’s quite a thrill to find and bring the light of day to a story buried in the sands of time, so to speak. With each discovery, you want to dig ever deeper.

The “Space Coast” saw some pretty dark years after cancellation of the Apollo program, with Titusville and environs devastated by the resulting unemployment, home foreclosures/abandonments and business closings. It’s quite telling that the Moon Islander survived this and made it to the start of the Space Shuttle era. We’re experiencing the same sort of period again with the fly out of the Space Shuttle this year, superimposed on top of a really crappy national economy. Thousands have already been laid off, with many more to come. Déjà vu…

Sven, I think you’re exactly right about the sad affair of the steak. Mr. Moon was clearly a shrewd businessman and, from the first-hand accounts of Carol, far too decent a person to have stuck to such an untenable position. I’ll bet this got settled in a gentlemanly manner after everyone cooled off.

Naneki and Trav, I’ve tried some of the Moon Islander drink recipes and been pleasantly surprised. The Moon Islander mai tai, for example, is clearly more akin to the best of what I encountered in my trips to Hawaii than to the classic Trader Vic’s recipe, and it contains enough rum to seriously relax.

Tipsy, the Neon Tiki Tribe is extinct, best I can tell, but if you wish to try your hand at bringing back the untiki in order to address your question, send an email to the address on this web site:

http://www.neontikitribe.com/

You alone bear the consequences for this action. :)

[ Edited by: TikiTomD 2011-04-01 05:18 ]