Post #644240 by bigbrotiki on Mon, Jul 16, 2012 10:43 AM

Point taken. The Trader was a trailblazer here, too. That's why I used this material in the BOT: As another example of the widespread, multi-category use of the term and image during that brief period in pop history. This of course doesn't change the fact that such terms (and concepts) as "Tiki Style" (as an art genre) and "Tiki Culture" (as a lifestyle) did not exist as a widespread classification of the phenomenon back then, but are a creation of the last two decades.