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Both beer or Planters Punch can be enjoyed with this tiki/beer mug hybird and no one gives you a second look. |
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Sun, Aug 5, 2007 1:43 AM
Amazing how much fire you can get from a simple Tiki torch. |
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Sun, Aug 5, 2007 10:31 AM
Bigbrotiki, the Bavarian flip side of Tiki would be the Beer Palace in St. Louis known as Bevo Mill and it's sister counter-part down the road, Grant's Farm. In almost every way comparable, the German Beer Palaces of the Mid-west mirror the Tiki Palaces in their attempt to create a paradise that never was but oddly seems to linger in the recesses of human memory as if they really were reality. The Bevo Mill is to the Tonga Room in the same way that Grant's Farm is to the many acred Tiki Palaces that allowed guest to roam about in an escapist pleasure setting. I don't know if your familiar with either Grant's Farm, http://www.grantsfarm.com/, or the Bevo Mill, http://www.bevomillstl.com/,but they are so surreal in their portrayal of German Beer Culture that you are immeditely put in a place of great awe. The comparisons of a tiki bar to a sports bar are incongruent to each other. A better comparisson is the tiki bar and the Bavarian Beer Hall. So similar are they that an enthusiast of either one would feel comfortable in either setting. For the Urban Archeologist, the differences are comparable to the differences in unearthing a Mayan Temple versus an Egyptian Tomb. |
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Sun, Aug 5, 2007 10:43 AM
Tiki.......................................... Bavarian A-fram entrances..................... Windmills The list could go on and on but I think you get the point. Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will [ Edited by: telescopes 2007-08-05 10:45 ] |
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Again, you guys are straying from the point of my original post which was the stripping down of a Tiki landmark into a commonplace sports bar. They should have just removed the A-frame and the torches because now it makes a mockery out of something a lot of us here cherish. |
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Sun, Aug 5, 2007 12:10 PM
That's like suggesting we should tear down the remnents of the grand theaters in the Jewelry district in downtown town LA because they no longer fit in with their current usage. The fact is usage is fluid - it is our live spans that are not. And while it may appear to be incongruent with the theme of a sports bar to utilize the past tiki props and infrastructure, places like the Tonga Hut would never have returned to their past purposes. Actually, the destruction of tiki infastructure is the real crime. I'd rather see a Walgreens in the old Kahiki then the sad realization that the Kahiki is no longer. Things have a way of returning to their original purposes if the restorationist are allowed the time it takes to convince the public of the need to preserve something of archetectual uniqueness. By not destroying the tiki background of this site, the owners of this establishment are buying time for a new owner to return the site to something everyone on this site would be thankful to see. We are a young country, and all too often we eredicate our young past in the desire to make something new. If we continue to do this, we won't have any vestiges of our past to remind us of who we once were and are. Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will [ Edited by: telescopes 2007-08-05 12:13 ] |
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I concur! (...s touched on here):
I LOVE that list! Please ad: Hula dancing..............Shoeplattln (you know, that slapdance thing) And (pardon for veering further off the subject), but there is another connection between the American rendition of German folk art and Tiki: When viewing the 1938 Disney classic "Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs" (based on a German fairy tale), I was struck by the fact that the "Bavarian folk art"-style carved beams and furniture in the country cottage began to dance and sing: This was clearly the precedent to the concept of animating the Enchanted Tiki Room's Tikis (which, in turn, became the model for all of Disney's audio-animatronics attractions). [ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2007-08-05 14:47 ] |
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Sun, Aug 5, 2007 4:31 PM
Uh oh, I smell another book "brewing". :wink: |
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Sun, Aug 5, 2007 4:34 PM
By the way, for those who were wondering, this is a bevo. |
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Sun, Aug 5, 2007 6:32 PM
No need to expose your shortcomings here on TC, MrBaliHai, but in all seriousness, I think my jokes fell a little short, but I'm sure you'll understand... :lol: |
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Sun, Aug 5, 2007 10:24 PM
Check out this recipe: |
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Sun, Aug 5, 2007 10:52 PM
[ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2007-08-09 09:12 ] |
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I beg forgiveness to resurrect this ol' thread for such an un-Tiki post, but I visited my favorite Bavarian kitsch palace last night, because, ironically, it IS closing, at the end of this month, as I just found out! After 40 years, the Lowenbrou Keller will be no more. :cry: Right next to Brian's Backyard Jungles post here now, Bavarian Brewery catacombs! That's what I love, culture clash extreme! [ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2007-08-09 10:04 ] |
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Thu, Aug 9, 2007 8:02 PM
Wow Big Bro- that place is absolutely Der Ort, zu sein! :wink: |
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Sun, Dec 30, 2007 12:18 PM
If anybody hears anything about this opening again, let GROG know because this was one of GROG' favorite restaraunts. GROG went here on GROG birthday and it was closed, and GROG heart-broken. GROG understand it was bought and is supposed to open again as "Medusa". GROG hope they keep the interior the same. GROG doubt the food will be as good, because the previous owner's widow was the cook and the food was AWESOME. |
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Pretty good news, it reopened with most of the original interior. But it no longer serves German food and it's called the Medusa Lounge. From http://la.eater.com:
From http://la.eater.com:
It looks a lot less cluttured and it's too brightly lit, but if I didn't know what it looked like before I would be pretty thrilled with the decor as it is now. [ Edited by: thejab 2008-02-06 17:19 ] |