Post #80996 by bigbrotiki on Mon, Mar 15, 2004 3:28 PM

Kids! I am shocked at how some of you so easily forget to honor the creed of Urban Archeology, by acting like being the only ones who know what is beautiful, or fitting! That is exactly what the previous generation (and many people to this day) thought of Tiki style, obliterating every trace of the "ugly". What did Picasso say about"Good Taste"? Are we ever to learn from the mistakes of our parents?
To me, ANY authentic, not mass-produced, faithful-to-a-theme environs are unique and worth being preserved. Nobody will ever manufacture these lamps again (now that's a relief, might some of you joke)...(then again, I NEVER in my life would have thought that they would make Tiki Soap-On-A-Rope again, and all the other stuff!), and the lamps do carry on the Chateau theme by looking like jousting tents, or knights hats, in a 60s "Fleur de Lille" sort of way. If they would be huge rod iron chandeliers I would object to them because they would alter the atmosphere of the place, but the Amber resin or glass beads totally speak of the 60s period.
And Tiki bars always were receptacles of all kinds of flotsam and jetsam washed ashore from the urban sea, granted mostly, but not neccesarily always South Seas island related.

Let the Hale Tiki treat it's history with respect, not hide it in embarrassment.