Post #587043 by christiki295 on Fri, Apr 29, 2011 7:20 AM

A Tiki Timeline:

Some notable tiki culture dates.

1934: Don the Beachcomber serves the first Zombie in Hollywood.

1941-45: World War II sends millions of Americans to the South Pacific.

1944: Trader Vic's in Oakland serves the first mai tai.

1948: Thor Heyerdahl's "Kon-Tiki'' and James Michener's "Tales of the South Pacific'' are published.

1959: Hawaii becomes a state.

1963: The Enchanted Tiki Room opens at Disneyland.

1960s: It's the tiki heyday, with hundreds of bars and restaurants popping up. Tiki eateries populate major hotel chains.

1979: Luau in Beverly Hills is bulldozed, an early victim of tiki's waning popularity.

1994: Trader Vic's in San Francisco closes. Tiki News, a revivalist magazine, begins publishing.

2000: Kahiki in Columbus, Ohio, closes, despite preservationists' pleas.

2000: "Book of Tiki'' is published, fueling a tiki revival.

2000: Orange County artist Shag sparks tiki pop art revival.

2003: "Tiki Road Trip'' is published.

2003: Costa Mesa's Kona Lanes, built in 1958, are bulldozed.

2005: Disneyland's Enchanted Tiki Room makes a refreshed appearance March 12.

2009-10: Sam's Seafood, a longtime tiki-themed restaurant in Huntington Beach, changes hands. New owners eventually license the name Don the Beachcomber, including many of the original restaurant's drink formulas.

2010: Tonga Room at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco is saved, for the moment, by historic designation.

Thank you, Mongoloid.

2005: Shows Tiki ascendancy based on Disneyland's Enchanted Tiki Room, and also notes that Sam's Seafood, now Don the Beachcomber, miraculously persists, despite being surrounded by a sea of apts and condos (thereby suggesting that the land would generate much more being redeveloped into multi-unit housing.

Also, lacks the reference to TV BH closing and TV LA Live opening and TV SF closing again.