If only my dad had sprung for that kiddie umbrella drink all those years ago… - General Tiki

T TIKIGIKI Tiki Socialite Australia Joined: Aug 18, 2022 Posts: 452	T TIKIGIKI Posted posted on Wed, Mar 1, 2023 6:47 PM Interesting question Conn-tiki. Unfortunately I didn't even have your childhood experience of those Chinese restaurants that flirted with Tiki. We had Chinese eateries of course but they did not do Tiki at all. My own infatuation with Tiki came from my childhood escapist dreaming about "exotic" locations whilst growing up on an inland rural location. (Cold winters etc.) Seeing the movie "South Pacific" really fanned my youthful interests and then later travel around the Pacific allowed me to amass a collection of artifacts and flesh out what by then I had come to realise was the Tiki movement. Yes, perhaps its heyday was long over, but it still felt right for me, as it obviously does for others here on TC. And like you, I too wonder what if things had been different? What if I'd grown up in say a tropical location, would I feel the same today, .....or have a "western" themed bar now? [ Edited by TIKIGIKI on 2023-03-01 18:54:50 ]

Interesting question Conn-tiki. Unfortunately I didn't even have your childhood experience of those Chinese restaurants that flirted with Tiki. We had Chinese eateries of course but they did not do Tiki at all. My own infatuation with Tiki came from my childhood escapist dreaming about "exotic" locations whilst growing up on an inland rural location. (Cold winters etc.) Seeing the movie "South Pacific" really fanned my youthful interests and then later travel around the Pacific allowed me to amass a collection of artifacts and flesh out what by then I had come to realise was the Tiki movement. Yes, perhaps its heyday was long over, but it still felt right for me, as it obviously does for others here on TC. And like you, I too wonder what if things had been different? What if I'd grown up in say a tropical location, would I feel the same today, .....or have a "western" themed bar now?

[ Edited by TIKIGIKI on 2023-03-01 18:54:50 ]

Post #808165 by TIKIGIKI on Wed, Mar 1, 2023 6:47 PM