Post #789369 by Cammo on Thu, Aug 23, 2018 9:11 AM

I'm just going to assume that this history is going to be unpopular, and I'm going to fill it out as I can chronologically.

...and I'm going to start with 1950's TV shows because they were so important in the early memories of the Tiki Crowd, almost certainly jump-starting the whole thing.

Recent Tiki History

1959 Adventures in Paradise TV show premiers.

1959 Hawaiian Eye TV show premiers.

1964 Gilligan’s Island TV show premiers.

1966 Boyd Rice wears a cheap Robert Hall Hawaiian Shirt and the Tiki Necklace sold with it to elementary school. His favorite TV show at this time is Hawaiian Eye, already in reruns. He is part of a huge group of imaginative, often West Coast baby boomers who were more interested in Tikis and Hawaii than the Hippie Beatle Drug shenanigans just starting to explode nationally.

MORE TO COME