Chi-Chi, Palm Springs, CA (restaurant) - Locating Tiki

T TikiTacky Member Joined: Nov 23, 2010 Posts: 1319	T TikiTacky Posted posted on Sat, Jun 14, 2014 7:02 PM Their marketing materials certainly have a tiki flair, but I'm not finding much of the interior. The one picture they had on the page I linked to doesn't look tiki at all, but the article says "The Chi Chi was not the first restaurant to use stylized recreations of palm-thatched roofs, tapa cloth, and velvet backdrops, but it was among the earliest and certainly one of the best when it opened in 1941. With an innate sense of style and showmanship, Schuman spent big bucks to indulge his customers’ fantasies of Balinese dancing girls and Fijian fire-eaters." "You can't eat real Polynesian food. It's the most horrible junk I've ever tasted." —Trader Vic Bergeron [ Edited by: TikiTacky 2014-06-14 19:03 ]

Their marketing materials certainly have a tiki flair, but I'm not finding much of the interior. The one picture they had on the page I linked to doesn't look tiki at all, but the article says "The Chi Chi was not the first restaurant to use stylized recreations of palm-thatched roofs, tapa cloth, and velvet backdrops, but it was among the earliest and certainly one of the best when it opened in 1941. With an innate sense of style and showmanship, Schuman spent big bucks to indulge his customers’ fantasies of Balinese dancing girls and Fijian fire-eaters."

"You can't eat real Polynesian food. It's the most horrible junk I've ever tasted." —Trader Vic Bergeron

[ Edited by: TikiTacky 2014-06-14 19:03 ]

Post #720128 by TikiTacky on Sat, Jun 14, 2014 7:02 PM