Royal Hawaiian Motel, Daytona Beach, FL (motel) - Locating Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Fri, Jan 27, 2012 6:32 PM Wow, welcome to the new blandness. What a generic, un-fun environment. Also, it is striking how beginning in the late 60s, the change in the look of architecture and design is symbolic for the castration of the optimistic spirit of the late 50s/early 60s: As the cars lost their tail fins and the Tikis were being felled, the soaring outrigger beams.... were sawed off, and the once sharply peaked gables of the Tiki A-frame... ...and were replaced by the lopped off, stunted, faux mansard roof look:

Wow, welcome to the new blandness. What a generic, un-fun environment.

Also, it is striking how beginning in the late 60s, the change in the look of architecture and design is symbolic for the castration of the optimistic spirit of the late 50s/early 60s:

As the cars lost their tail fins and the Tikis were being felled, the soaring outrigger beams....

were sawed off, and the once sharply peaked gables of the Tiki A-frame...

...and were replaced by the lopped off, stunted, faux mansard roof look:

Post #622672 by bigbrotiki on Fri, Jan 27, 2012 6:32 PM