Post #629862 by woofmutt on Sat, Mar 24, 2012 10:53 AM

"It seems that I am proving my own prediction of Facebook being the pied piper of Tiki Centralites...R.I.P., TC?" -bigbrotiki-

Yes, Tiki Central is dead and it is largely because of Facebook. The problem is that the sites are virtually identical with much of the content on both being exactly the same. I'd even go so far as to say that the Facebook sections on historical and active Tiki joints are far superior to what Tiki Central has to offer, if not in format then definitely in content. The writing in those Facebook section is typical of most the writing on Facebook with a depth and attention to detail one would generally expect to see in a book. (Well, what one would have seen in a book had television not made books obsolete in the 1960s.)

Now back to cold hardy palms...When I was in L.A. I saw a type of palm tree which seemed to do well in all sorts of environments which would probably prove problematic for palms with a more particular nature. I don't know the names of these hardy palms but here's a picture of one: