Post #735543 by creativenative on Mon, Jan 19, 2015 4:22 PM

Just bought and watched "Don't Make Waves". A 1967 film showing some cool tiki culture of the times. With Tony Curtis and 60s babes Claudia Cardinale and Sharon Tate. There are Hawaiian elements of a So Cal young beach & surf culture and Pacific elements in the more mature and sophisticated tiki culture. Although both American sub cultures have oceanic influences and of course tikis, they are two very distinct American popular sub-cultural movements:

Hawaiian throwing net on a So-Cal surf beach (not realistic but Hollywood artistic):

Token Hawaiians on beach in background (more as human props to help establish this beach culture):

Curtis buys a new pad complete with Micronesian tikis in background. Guy on right is laying a zebra rug, of course:

Later in film Tony's lux pad washes down toward the Pacific Hwy and shore. Here, house upside-down, one can see the ubiquitous tapa cloth hanging in background:

Tiki Movies & Tiki TV @ southseascinema.org

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