Post #9298 by Tiki King on Thu, Sep 26, 2002 10:30 AM

So here is a question, since we are currently in the second (or is it third?) revival of Tiki interest, how do we ourselves keep from being trendy? I was not alive during the days before Capt. Cook brought the demise of Kapu system. Then the were two revivals (or one long one that had waves of popularity) between the 20's and 70's. So what to do? The reason there are Tiki mugs, Exotica Music and places like Oceanic Arts, Trader Vics, Etc. is directly due to the overwhelming commercialization of Tiki these first times around. It is a tricky one. When I started "collecting" Tiki stuff in 92, I had no idea anyone else even liked the stuff, or that there was a "scene", but some say by then it was already over.