The show me your Witco thread. - Collecting Tiki

PP Pittsburgh pauly Tiki Socialite Pittsburgh Joined: Jan 31, 2010 Posts: 461	PP Pittsburgh pauly Posted posted on Mon, Oct 14, 2013 8:00 PM On 2013-10-13 21:47, bigbrotiki wrote: Now those are flea market finds ! Only in Pittsburgh, baby ! Hopefully it means there's things to find out there no matter where you are. But really it seems there's more around here. I think it may have to do with Pittsburgh's boom and bust corresponding roughly with Poly Pop's. Tempered by Pittsburgh's distrust of trends and fads, so you had Pittsburghers going to Hawaii, but not as many commercial tiki bars. I could go on about the our being "underserved" my national franchises leading to being skipped by any chain, Trader Vic's, Don's, Stephen Crane, etc. But this isn't the "How the Heck did the 10th largest American city in 1950's get skipped by tiki" thread.

On 2013-10-13 21:47, bigbrotiki wrote:
Now those are flea market finds ! Only in Pittsburgh, baby !

Hopefully it means there's things to find out there no matter where you are.
But really it seems there's more around here. I think it may have to do with Pittsburgh's boom and bust corresponding roughly with Poly Pop's. Tempered by Pittsburgh's distrust of trends and fads, so you had Pittsburghers going to Hawaii, but not as many commercial tiki bars.
I could go on about the our being "underserved" my national franchises leading to being skipped by any chain, Trader Vic's, Don's, Stephen Crane, etc.
But this isn't the "How the Heck did the 10th largest American city in 1950's get skipped by tiki" thread.

Post #696338 by Pittsburgh pauly on Mon, Oct 14, 2013 8:00 PM