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Post #599898 by bigbrotiki on Fri, Jul 29, 2011 7:26 PM

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John-O, the average German would ask "What's Polynesia?" Hawaii was so far away from post-war Germany, it had very little pop-cultural impact, here a rare example from the movie "Paradies der Matrosen" from 1959:

Nowadays there's even much less awareness of any South Seas subject matter. If you observe the decor of the Tiki Dresden, it is very Surf and Beach oriented, so European Tiki revival stuff is definitely more American pop culture connected.