Post #785388 by tikiskip on Tue, Mar 27, 2018 6:21 AM

"The local FL vendors"
The guy across from us sold like one thing ALL weekend.
He just shook his head as we sold almost everything the first day.
He was selling cheesy painted surf board things, I think the one sale was to a non tiki person from when they let the public in.
Looked like he had two vending spaces too, Man I felt bad for that guy.

"Supporting Hukilau supports the Mai-Kai" And that is great!
But don't leave out the Yankee Clipper, and the Bahia Cabana, and even the bands that play plus the venders and makers of tiki.
The book writers like Sven and Jeff, Martin, I think you wrote a book too Tim, love it.

So one hand washes the other.
Do you think Robert Drasnin would have done another album if not for Hukilau?
I don't.

BUT books that don't sell don't get published, Tiki that does not sell does not get made.
And without that other tiki crap Hukilau is just a bunch of people going out to dinner at the same time with snappy clothes on.

Sorry to talk about the cash thing so much but it relates to this thread as the starting posts seemed to be looking for a cheap tiki thrill event.