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B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Tue, Apr 26, 2011 9:48 AM I woke up musing some more about Skipper Kent...like: What is in a name? Why were "Don The Beachcomber" and "Trader Vic" more successful in branding themselves as such? Why did the Hotel Corp execs choose the much too generic "Polynesian Village" for their tropical lounges? Was the "Skipper Kent" moniker not evocative enough? Or WOULD the franchise been more successful with that name? Also: Looking at some of the Polynesian Village rooms, as beautiful and exotic as they are, they seem a little flimsy, not as solid as a Trader Vic's. Maybe because the heavy wood Tiki columns that anchored the space are missing? I would really like to sit down with Sabu, bifcozz, DC, and some deep poly pop diggers for a "Skipper Kent Symposium", echanging some of those thoughts and hypotheses...

I woke up musing some more about Skipper Kent...like: What is in a name? Why were "Don The Beachcomber" and "Trader Vic" more successful in branding themselves as such? Why did the Hotel Corp execs choose the much too generic "Polynesian Village" for their tropical lounges? Was the "Skipper Kent" moniker not evocative enough? Or WOULD the franchise been more successful with that name?

Also: Looking at some of the Polynesian Village rooms, as beautiful and exotic as they are, they seem a little flimsy, not as solid as a Trader Vic's. Maybe because the heavy wood Tiki columns that anchored the space are missing?

I would really like to sit down with Sabu, bifcozz, DC, and some deep poly pop diggers for a "Skipper Kent Symposium", echanging some of those thoughts and hypotheses...

Post #586585 by bigbrotiki on Tue, Apr 26, 2011 9:48 AM