Would you prefer Tiki as 'mainstream' or 'underground'? - General Tiki

J JOHN-O Tiki Socialite Dogtown, USA Joined: May 16, 2008 Posts: 2721	J JOHN-O Posted posted on Fri, May 25, 2012 7:56 AM On 2012-05-25 06:37, pbmonkey98902 wrote: I think that most of us fear that our local tiki bars will be filled with a bunch of young. "Pabst blue ribbon swilling, skinny jeans wearing,funny facial hair and sock headed stylings". Of dare I say it "Hipsters"! If our beloved tiki bars become main stream popular?! "Hipsters" loathe the mainstream as much as your average Tikiphile. They embrace Tiki for its ironic kitschy coolness which hopefully isn't just flavor of the month for them. MONEY is the oxygen which allows Tiki bars to survive and most hipsters have that disposable bar income. As stated many times here, if only Tikiphiles drank in Tiki bars, there would be no Tiki bars. A place like the Tiki-Ti has it down pat, where it draws in a great diversity of drinkers. I remember a few years ago, I was sitting at the bar beside one older gentleman who had been drinking at the Ti for decades with his granddaughter who had just turned 21, another couple dressed like they were on their way to the opera or some black tie affair, the locals who drink there every day it's open, and yes given the neighborhood demographic... HIPSTERS !! Everyone was happily co-existing in a rum-fueled bliss. :) Same goes for the Tonga Hut on a given night. Yes lots of PBR kids hanging out there but I also see a lot of these youngsters sucking down the Scorpion bowls. And don't be so quick to pass judgment on some of the kids in the above pictures (although I do agree that one person in the link is a little out there). Honestly they look like younger versions of people in this middle-aged Tiki community. That curlycue mustache and those black horn-rimmed glasses have crossed generations. Hipsters in the Tiki bar are a good thing. (But what I don't like are the young douchebags who tend to be stupid or arrogant drunks.)

On 2012-05-25 06:37, pbmonkey98902 wrote:
I think that most of us fear that our local tiki bars will be filled with a bunch of young. "Pabst blue ribbon swilling, skinny jeans wearing,funny facial hair and sock headed stylings".
Of dare I say it "Hipsters"!
If our beloved tiki bars become main stream popular?!

"Hipsters" loathe the mainstream as much as your average Tikiphile. They embrace Tiki for its ironic kitschy coolness which hopefully isn't just flavor of the month for them. MONEY is the oxygen which allows Tiki bars to survive and most hipsters have that disposable bar income. As stated many times here, if only Tikiphiles drank in Tiki bars, there would be no Tiki bars.

A place like the Tiki-Ti has it down pat, where it draws in a great diversity of drinkers. I remember a few years ago, I was sitting at the bar beside one older gentleman who had been drinking at the Ti for decades with his granddaughter who had just turned 21, another couple dressed like they were on their way to the opera or some black tie affair, the locals who drink there every day it's open, and yes given the neighborhood demographic... HIPSTERS !! Everyone was happily co-existing in a rum-fueled bliss. :)

Same goes for the Tonga Hut on a given night. Yes lots of PBR kids hanging out there but I also see a lot of these youngsters sucking down the Scorpion bowls.

And don't be so quick to pass judgment on some of the kids in the above pictures (although I do agree that one person in the link is a little out there). Honestly they look like younger versions of people in this middle-aged Tiki community. That curlycue mustache and those black horn-rimmed glasses have crossed generations.

Hipsters in the Tiki bar are a good thing. (But what I don't like are the young douchebags who tend to be stupid or arrogant drunks.)

Post #637838 by JOHN-O on Fri, May 25, 2012 7:56 AM