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Tonga Room on the Amazing Race

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One of the roadblocks in the current Amazing Race is at the the Tonga Room!

I saw that. One of the last stops on the finale. They had the band playing in the "lagoon" and the thunderstorm. They also called it one of the first tiki bars in America. Am I wrong in thinking it didn't become tiki until sometime in the 60's which would actually make it quite late in the game?

Also, I don't know if anyone's mentioned it yet - America's Next Top Model is in New Zealand and there's quite a nicely carved Maori tiki visible in some of the interviews and a large tiki is the centerpiece in the judging room (that one may be a prop but the other one looks real enough). (yes, I've outed myself as an ANTM watcher).

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Sweet Daddy Tiki I have been watching ANTM also...in the 1st episode where they land in NZ they had a tribe of maori men dancing.it was pretty killer!

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