Post #601680 by tikiyaki on Tue, Aug 9, 2011 3:06 PM

On 2011-08-09 10:34, bigbrotiki wrote:
Kudos for the great research, both Tiki Tom and meega. Some of your findings aptly point at the reasons for the decline of Tiki in the late 60s:

The merciless food critic mirror's the evolving tastes of Americans to who faux Polynesian Chinese food had lost its exotic thrill, and the impressive string of lounge acts at the Leilani seems like the last hurrah before the changing of the guard at the dawn of the Beatles craze. In the case of the Leilani, their fading into the sunset was even cut shorter by the 1966 bankruptcy of the venue, compared to the Aku Aku in Toledo which lasted until the LATE 60s:
http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=22122&forum=2&start=15

On top of a new generation with different musical tastes growing up, I believe the entertainment genre of the supper club where music and meals went together was gradually killed by the growing numbers and use of color television. More people stayed home more often. With a dwindling audience the venues could not support the cost, and the entertainers who could switched to appearances on the tube themselves.

The final devolution happened when TV-sets started appearing in bars....it now continues with invasion of the internet in the form of the I-phone, and Facebooking in bars.

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2011-08-09 11:55 ]

Add to that,the increasing volume at which most modern music is played these days....doesn't really make for a nice, classy dinner and show experience.
When Tikiyaki do our shows that occur during dinner, we keep the fist set, aka dinner set, "low and slow" for the most part to give people a chance to dine and talk without having to yell too much over the music.
I think the dinner show, needs to make a comeback, before we all become deaf and have upset stomachs :)