Post #773028 by tikiskip on Thu, Feb 16, 2017 3:41 AM

"The driving question is "what caused it to become so popular?"

Back at that time there were many types of Theme restaurants not just
Polynesian type places.
Remember the whole thing was new the food the drinks most people did not get
to travel like they might now.

And not everybody got to even see these new foods and places on TV or in the movies.

So the novelty itself would make it popular and something one would want to see.