Official Introductions Thread. New Members, Post your introduction here...

Welcome Shell!
You're on your own now.... You can do it!

Shell 'n' Al'ii... It's gonna take me a while to get used to that. Hey Shell, are you still gonna edit Al's posts for grammer?

Nice to see another operational home bar here on the North Coast. I thought I had the only one!

I'm not realy a new member, I've changed my name. I couldn't find any rules regarding the process, so I just started a new Username. I was formerly "Captain Morgan"
My new name is in reference to my home State (of course) and I hope to see more Tiki Events up here in the North East! Tiki Central is by far the best Message Board on the Web!And I'm here all the time.

On 2002-03-25 15:57, MonkeyGod wrote:
Hi,

I'm a relatively new member referred here by the fabulous Tikifish. Was known for a short time as TTenenbaum on the other board. Grew up 5 miles from the Kahiki and I miss it so.

Monkgeez iz da cwaziest beeple! Welcome to TC

Aloha everyone!

I was following some old conversation at Tiki Central about the artist Lewis Vandercar. I am a member of the yahoo newsgroup for Lewis_Van_Dercar.

I have uploaded quite a number of photos of his paintings & sculptures. I also have a link to my yahoo photo album. We are trying to build a repository of photos. There is also a sculpture of a large Tiki at the entrance of his Miami Studio.

You may have to type this in manually (not sure) as the link is not working right or just register at yahoo & search Lewis_Van_Dercar under groups.

Please visit,
groups.yahoo.com/group/Lewis_Van_Dercar.com

[ Edited by: ripaldaz 2005-07-08 10:37 ]

On 2005-06-28 08:56, Al-ii wrote:
Aloha,
i used to post as alnshely, from now on I'll post as Al-ii. Shell will post as Shell in the Pacific.
Mahalo,
Al

On 2005-06-28 22:22, Shell in the Pacific wrote:
Aloha Everyone,
It's about time I got around to registering. In the past I have posted under Al-ii's previous screen name "alnshely".
Mahalo & Aloha,
Shell in the Pacific

We still love ya both!

We still love ya both!

Here. Here.

Glad to be here.

Welcome aboard Pappy.

... is over

Aloha.

Yeah I'm new.
This place is neato.

Aloha
E

Boy, you go to Tiki Oasis, plan on getting on the Tiki Central boards right when you get home, and BAM! two months go by. Life... I tell ya....

Aloha and I am excited to be here (finally!). This is a wonderfully active board and [holds up her three middle fingers] I will promise to do my best to keep up on new posts.

A little introduction: I've chosen Haole'akamai as my screen name because I defintely feel like a foreigner when it comes to Tiki/Polynesian culture, as I've only skirted the scene, but I'm really excited to learn more and more. And I thought I'd do a little self promotion, which I hope to live up to, by adding the "witty, charming" part. [uh, yeah, by the by, if I totally screwed up the Hawaiian syntax/spelling - let me know - I'm not proud....]

If you went to TO5, you may remember me from the Best Dressed Pirate contest - I was the Pyrate CanCan Dancer. I met so many wonderful people there - freindly & fun-loving. Next year, I definitely want to stay at The Caliente Tropics; our hotel was way too far away from all the good stuff.

I'm interested in all things vintage/retro, and Polynesian Pop especially. I enjoy costumes, dancing, reading, and boogie woogie & exotica music. I have four cats and volunteer with a local animal rescue group. Halloween and my birthday are my favorite holidays. My husband & I recently bought a Craftsman house (built in 1923) that we are trying to restore to its former glory (the backyard, though will eventually be a Polynesian Paradise, w/a 57' Bocce Ball court). I am a Barrista with Peets Coffee & Tea, but I'm working on getting my credentials to become a middle school mathematics teacher.

WHOA!! Hey, didn't I say this would be a little introduction? heh heh... I better stop here....

so, hi. :)

[ Edited by: Haole'akamai 2005-07-08 15:33 ]

Howdy 1 and all!!! I'm William, a skipper at THE WORLD FA"MOUSE" Jungle cruise in Florida. love it!always wanted to become a member here as I love tiki related things. My wonderful wife Michelle even worked Tiki Birds for a while,she's working Mansion now, but thinking of going back to Tiki's..... kinda wish we had our old show back though, but hey!, i'm a traditionalist, purist, whatever ya call em!. Anyway, wanted to say howdy to everyone and hope to see lots of cool things going on...come visit..ooohhh..........I see the Jungle boat related post!, already have pics up from tha catalog of the Congo Queen replica! been waiting to see this..... sweet! thanks you bunches!,Kevin and Jody...:)

Best,
Will

hello, i'm shane from sydney australia. shane loosely translates to kane hence the unimaginative user name. i'm aware of one or two aussies from a week of lurking, glad to join you here!

Hello, I am new but I intend to be a regular. I love Tiki and am suprised to find such a great site,ahhh I am home! Thanks and check out my thread showcasing my latest tiki tattoo fresh from Maui. THanks everyone!!

http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=15531&forum=1&0

Kane - aloha from Sydney! yeh there's a handful of us Aussies lurking around here. look forward to seeing you around.

Ok
this thread is huge, so hopefully someone will read it. Newbie to the board, but not new to old school fun. Grew up in Jersey, live in SC.
Influences: PUNK ROCK (Iggy, Ramones, Dolls, Clash etc)
Rockabilly, DEADBOLT, and so on.
I work at Winthrop University as the Facility Manager and Tech Director for the Music Department and as an Adjunct Professor in the Theatre Department.
I am in the process of building a 1966 GMC Pick Up and am around 90% Finished, Interior and pinstriping will be a Tiki Theme. AS it is the truck is Indigo Blue with light blue, green and pink ghost flames, side pipes.
Next Tattoo will hopefully be tiki style.
Oh shit, yea I am 40.

Rob, we do read this thread & say "Aloha!" to the new people. :D

With your experience in Set Design you might appreciate some of the more elaborate home bar set ups like Ona Tiki's & Al 'n' Shell's.

You're a Deadbolt fan? You know they play here in San Diego at the Ken Club about once a month when they're not on tour? So when are you coming out? :D

I am tikinoobie and I really like things with tiki themes. It seems like everyone here is really nice and I can learn more. My room has some tiki decorations and I make some decorations. I hope to make more! I like all the ideas on Tiki Central.

Aloha to you all. Glad you signed up. Hope you enjoy your stay with us.
hey edgarallencoe! first off I love the screen name and second-I'm reading posts while on lunch and reading some of them outloud to a co-worker. He asked me to ask you to please post a picture of the truck. He's really into that!
oops can't talk and spell, and eat all at the same time!

You see things and say, Why? But I dream things that never were, and say, Why not!

[ Edited by: exotica59 2005-07-14 11:02 ]

Hello,

I've been carving tikis for 15 years and would like to begin participating in your forum, posting some pics, and getting some feedback. Hello to you all!!!!

-Gman

Welcome GMAN and Edgar, can't wait to see your stuff. New positive vibes are very welcome right now.

WELCOME TO ALL NEW MEMBERS.

GMAN, I answered your question about posting photos in the Creating Tiki thread. In case you can't find that again, use this link:

http://www.tikicentral.com/faq.php#embed

Hello all,

Thanks for the welcome! I hope to put together a shutterfly account this weekend and try to post some pics. I just carved one with a huge tongue that I think you all would dig.

A little about me: I work with chainsaws and carve spontaneously (no plans or drawings). I like the raw energy of a chaisawn tiki and the thrill of just carving what and where the wood takes me. I am a marine biologist by trade and work to manage sharks, tunas, and billfish for the Federal Gov. I specialized in shark morphology in grad school, and have worked on the water my whole life (much of the time as a commercial fisherman). I base my works off the god Ku, the fishing god.

I'll try to work out some pic posts tomorrow....

Gman

Wow. What a cool place this is. I've been lurking for far too long here, and now I've decided it's time to come out and finally become a member. I love it.

I'm Ward. I'm an animator/animation director for a place in Atlanta, GA, called Primal Screen. I'm married with 2 kids.

I love animation and graffiti, and the tiki culture is another one of my loves. I also collect old things, mostly ephemera and cool books from the 50's and 60's. It's an unhealthy obession, I'm afraid.

Anyway, I have a blog where I talk about art and animation and the like. It's a fun diversion. You oughta stop on by.

It's nice to be here!

Welcome to all the new members! Hope you find that TC is as fun for you as it is for all of us.

I am capotiki,new to tiki central.When I close my eyes I see tikis.use the mana luke.

hi, i just registered, i study about oceanic art and go to Papua New Guinea and Melanesian islands and others to collect artifacts and enjoy the culture often, i just met Liz who introduced me to this site and told me i should join so here i am, hello to all, dominique, not sure i did this right though, i will see if message comes thru! i am not too computer smart!

Time for me to make myself known I suppose :)

This is my third post I believe and I am finally coming out of the woodwork to say Aloha!

I'm fairly new to the entire tiki experience. Well at least in my home anyways. But I have always had a big love of all things tiki and tropical.

I have had the extreme pleasure of meeting many fine folks here at TC already at the Ona Tiki Bar opening a couple weeks ago. Some of the nicest people I have ever met were at that party and I look forward to getting to know and perhaps even meet more of you soon!

Currently we are in the process of renovating the backyard for our garden and tikis. It's a long road but very well worth it as today, for the first time in weeks, I had the chance to sit and truly enjoy the soothing waterfall sounds and the lush foliage. No contractors and no heavy lifting today! Woo!

There is SO much to inspire me here at TC and I cannot wait until we can have our very own opening. ( should be soon - I'll be posting about that in a day or two!)

Sorry it's taken me so long to introduce myself, but it's been incredibly hectic around here as of late. I'm sure you all know how that goes!

Love being a member here!

On 2005-07-14 09:40, freddiefreelance wrote:
Rob, we do read this thread & say "Aloha!" to the new people. :D

With your experience in Set Design you might appreciate some of the more elaborate home bar set ups like Ona Tiki's & Al 'n' Shell's.

You're a Deadbolt fan? You know they play here in San Diego at the Ken Club about once a month when they're not on tour? So when are you coming out? :D

I am jealous of the SD Deadbolt connection, my wife met and hung out with them in Vegas a while back, I had to stay here and work.

Hello all!

I'm yet another new member, and new to the idea of thinking about "tiki" as anything other than my knowledge of the Kon Tiki here in Tucson, which is someplace that I've always enjoyed going to, but had never really given it the thought it deserved.

My current interest was sparked one night while I was bored at work, and I was surfing the web, looking for interesting things to do on an upcoming trip to LA. I was looking for a specific, and very stylized 50's coffee shop (which I later found out as a prime example of the Googie style) and happened to stumble from site to site, till I found Tiki Central. I'd always known about Tiki, but hadn't ever consciously thought about Tiki.

Since I was going to LA, I was looking for various places I could visit, and things I could see. Two places that caught my eye were the Tiki Ti and Oceanic Arts. I'll add another post regarding my visits to both those places, with pictures.

I also went to Disneyland, for the first time since 1983, and what I wanted to see most there was the Enchanted Tiki Room, after reading all about the remodel here on Tiki Central. It was tons of fun, and my girlfriend and I enjoyed our Dole Whip Floats as well. I wanted to pick up a Pele mug, but unfortunately they were out of them. I instead picked up one of the 11x14 "Waking Jose" Shag prints that they were selling.

For me, so far, Tiki has been all about something fun and interesting, but it has touched something inside of me that had been dormant.

I want to thank all of you for being here, keeping the torches burning for those who have only just or are yet to discover the spirit of Tiki. I'm happy to be able to find a place to share my own Tiki journey.

As for my screen name, I chose it to reflect one of my other passions, which is coffee. Not necessarily Kona coffee, but I figured it would work :) http://www.coffeegeek.com is one of my other main hangouts online.

Chris

[ Edited by: Kona Chris 2005-07-20 02:18 ]

Hi all - I'm new to the boards, been on about a week now. Looks like Tiki's are alive and well here:)

I've been into Polynesian decor since I went to WDW in 78. I was 5 then and loved walking around the grounds of the Poly with all of the trees, torches and musical tikis around. Disney managed to sink that into my head and here I am today, many years later, looking for that same experience.

c-ya!
Johnman

Hi...I mean Aloha,
I've been plugged into the Tiki lifestyle as a musician for years (with my band Wiki Waki Woo)...(and yes, of course, we have a CD).
But now I'm really stoked.... I've finally began to carve the cute buggers (Tikis). I find all of you folks & your creations very inspiring. I'll post pictures as soon as i figure out how to do so.

May the Humu be with you.
HelloTiki

Hey, I'm new.

I've been at least vaguely aware of tikis for as long as I can remember, and the heads on Rapa Nui are always cool. About a year ago I actually got a chance to visit Maui and bought an 8" tall hand-carved Tiki at an outdoor bazaar in Lahaina. So far this is my only tiki, though I certainly intend to get more -- the polynesian art bug bit me, and bit me HARD. I'm a college freshman right now, so money is a little bit tight, but a new store just opened at the local mall selling statuary and masks from across the globe, predominantly African and Polynesian. Really good prices too.

So how do I get a six-foot tall Tiki into my dorm room...?

Hey everybody ... My name is DrMig, and I'm a Tikiholic.

Anyway, a little about me. I grew up in the San Fernando Valley (Canoga Park, to be precise), which used to have as many Polynesian-themed restaurants as it now has porn studios. When I was a kid, they were where we went on Big Family Nights Out (unfortunately, I can't recall the names of any of them - if anyone wants to refresh my memory with the names of some long-lost tiki restaurants in the Valley, please do). Later on, some friends introduced me to their tiki obsession and got me a copy of Tiki Road Trip for my birthday. So, while I'm fairly new to the culture, I feel I've known tiki all my life. It speaks to my Inner Keiki, I guess.

Nowadays I'm in San Diego, which I've called home for almost 10 years. I work as editor of a magazine for people with disabilities. When not working, barhopping, going to punk shows, or slacking, I'm home-schooling myself in the art of mixology. My apartment's too small for a bar, but my longterm goal is to redecorate my (currently empty) balcony into my own personal oasis. I hope to get some ideas here.

That's all for now. I'm glad to meet you all.

Teanoi-So how do I get a six-foot tall Tiki into my dorm room...?

throught the door ofcourse

Welcome to all the newbies!! Glad to have you on board.

DrMig where in San Diego are you?? There are a few of us here. Hope to see you at the next event.
Aloha :wink:

I'm in the Mission Hills/Hillcrest area. Any Tiki Crawls coming up soon?

On 2005-07-26 11:39, DrMig wrote:
I'm in the Mission Hills/Hillcrest area. Any Tiki Crawls coming up soon?

Sure, when are you hosting it? :wink: There's the International Tiki Day celebreation in Oceanside, and there seems to be a meeting or minicrawl in the SD area every few months.

I just wanted to say aloha and that I have finally found paradise on the net. This place is way too cool. I have just joined TC and look forward to talking with other tiki lovers. I live in the tiki starved Sacramento, CA area and collect mugs primarily (but not only). See you in the forums, hang loose.

Mahalo, folks! I'm kid mongo from columbus, ohio, home of the Columbus Crew and the legendary Kahiki!

On 2005-07-27 18:23, kid mongo wrote:
Mahalo, folks! I'm kid mongo from columbus, ohio, home of the Columbus Crew and the legendary Kahiki!

Mongo? Santa Maria!

On 2005-07-27 18:23, kid mongo wrote:
Mahalo, folks! I'm kid mongo from columbus, ohio, home of the Columbus Crew and the legendary Kahiki!

Candygram for Mongo, candygram for Mongo.

Aloha and welcome.

Hello everyone! Longtime lurker now a member.

Aloha and welcome at last!

Hi Everyone, I am very excited to be part of such an awesome forum! I own a clothing company called Tiki Tots Apparel, a clothing line for infants and toddlersand love all the info on this site. I think it is a great place to learn more about Tiki and to meet people with the same fascination with Tiki! :wink:

On 2005-08-01 12:25, Tikitots wrote:
I own a clothing company called Tiki Tots Apparel, a clothing line for infants and toddlersand love all the info on this site.

Did you have a booth at the De Anza flea market last month? I think I saw you!

TIKIZILLA, there's a few TCer's from Sac. Nuimaleko, Mystiki too I believe. Probably more but if they don't post much my memory fades.
Anyway, we are beginning a monthly gathering down here at Minnie's in Modesto. All of you are welcome to come. We'll post the date in the "Tiki Events" forum.

Aloha