Tiki Culture - Geographical Origins - General Tiki

STCB Sabu The Coconut Boy Tiki Socialite Carson, California Joined: Aug 20, 2002 Posts: 2813	STCB Sabu The Coconut Boy Posted posted on Fri, Apr 22, 2011 4:16 PM Back to the questions of Geographical Origins to the "fake" Tiki Culture in the United States, we also have hints from the early restaurant menus of the movement, each one showing the influences to the manufactured South Seas experience found in each restaurant: :down: Don The Beachcomber: :down: Trader Vic (Oakland era): :down: Skipper Kent: They represent the tamer, more idyllic areas of the south seas; the same destinations to which you could travel on a Matson cruise in the 1930s or 40s. (The frightening lands of Melanisia and New Guinea are absent). Skipper Kent's is slightly different in that it includes the Caribbean and East Indies as influences. [ Edited by: Sabu The Coconut Boy 2011-04-22 17:21 ]

Back to the questions of Geographical Origins to the "fake" Tiki Culture in the United States, we also have hints from the early restaurant menus of the movement, each one showing the influences to the manufactured South Seas experience found in each restaurant:

:down: Don The Beachcomber:

:down: Trader Vic (Oakland era):

:down: Skipper Kent:

They represent the tamer, more idyllic areas of the south seas; the same destinations to which you could travel on a Matson cruise in the 1930s or 40s. (The frightening lands of Melanisia and New Guinea are absent). Skipper Kent's is slightly different in that it includes the Caribbean and East Indies as influences.

[ Edited by: Sabu The Coconut Boy 2011-04-22 17:21 ]

Post #586101 by Sabu The Coconut Boy on Fri, Apr 22, 2011 4:16 PM