Post #7326 by SlovakTiki on Sat, Aug 31, 2002 3:03 PM

You all make very interesting, pertinent points.I would just like to state that I believe interest in the tiki culture will be around as long as Western Civilization is. I tell you guys and gals, when I was a young teenager/twenty-something I was heavily into the punk-rock scene. I played in bands,damaged my hearing,everything. I was born in 1964 and I remember a few things from my early childhood believe it or not. I enjoyed them but as I grew into a teenager they were deemed by my peers to be uncool. Doing drugs and all that B.S. was "cool". What a total lie that was. It didn't take me long to realize that my folks (believe it or not!) were actually smart and cool to boot! Some of us missed the really cool things about pre-Vietnam war America and we recognize that. Tiki bars and the culture of it are so campy that they are a total gas. Plus, visiting Polynesia can infect a person with the tiki fever. I don't think it will disappear. I also believe that a purist movement will grow stronger as interest in this somewhat underground culture continues to grow. Slovak

[ Edited by: SlovakTiki on 2002-08-31 15:12 ]