Tiki history question: when did Orchids of Hawaii start their cookie-cutter restaurant trade? - General Tiki

H Humuhumu Member San Francisco Joined: Aug 22, 2002 Posts: 3691	H Humuhumu Posted posted on Sun, Dec 28, 2014 2:54 PM My interest right this moment stems from my purchase of some old-seeming OoH lamps from a yet-to-be-determined shuttered St. Petersburg restaurant, details on that in this thread over in Collecting Tiki: http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=48614&forum=5&7 My next step in pursuing that mystery is to set some boundary dates. When was the Orchids of Hawaii decor-supply business active? I've always thought of it as being a very-late-'60s-'90s thing, but did it start earlier than that? bigbrotiki -- I can hear you harrumphing about how OoH was part of the devolution of tiki, and more about Chinese restaurants than Polynesian ones, and you're right, but it's part of the story of tiki! And until Shitty Old Chinese Restaurants With Undrinkable Drinks In Globby Not-Really-Tiki Mugs Central starts, this is what I've got. Let's dig in!

My interest right this moment stems from my purchase of some old-seeming OoH lamps from a yet-to-be-determined shuttered St. Petersburg restaurant, details on that in this thread over in Collecting Tiki: http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=48614&forum=5&7

My next step in pursuing that mystery is to set some boundary dates. When was the Orchids of Hawaii decor-supply business active? I've always thought of it as being a very-late-'60s-'90s thing, but did it start earlier than that?

bigbrotiki -- I can hear you harrumphing about how OoH was part of the devolution of tiki, and more about Chinese restaurants than Polynesian ones, and you're right, but it's part of the story of tiki! And until Shitty Old Chinese Restaurants With Undrinkable Drinks In Globby Not-Really-Tiki Mugs Central starts, this is what I've got. Let's dig in!

Post #733866 by Humuhumu on Sun, Dec 28, 2014 2:54 PM