Post #697922 by kapu_kai_son on Wed, Oct 30, 2013 12:05 PM

On 2013-10-18 22:10, tobunga wrote:
Just spent a pleasant evening enjoying this incredible documentary and the slideshow on the website (with accompanying mai tais) ... so informative and moving!

It would be great if this could be screened at an event like Tiki Oasis, such a wealth of information that can be dispersed among the tiki people!

That would probably be fun, but I'm guessing that by the time the next Tiki Oasis rolls around, everyone who wants to see it will have done so. However, I'm not opposed to it if there is still interest.

On 2013-10-16 20:31, bigbrotiki wrote:
The things I love about this video are that it gives Tiki a human face by showing how it related to the lives of an American family. Also that it talks about the early early Tiki revival activities of us few nerds out there. But most of all that it makes the aspect of urban archeology comprehensible. Very few of the Tiki docus out there have touched on that, and the fact that this kind of intelligence gathering was the basis for all the partying and drinking that ensued since then. :)

Colin, I really dig the slideshow below, your folks must have felt like the coolest kids on the block back then :)

Thanks Sven! Actually, the women in the yellow sweater is my dads sister. This is my mom and dad back in the day:

I was hoping to get my aunt to talk about it but she simply doesn't recall much and/or is not happy to discuss it.