WHAT IS TIKI: Description in Travel+Leisure July issue - General Tiki

C christiki295 Member LA-2547 mls east Hawaii &5500 Easter Is Joined: Apr 09, 2003 Posts: 3837	C christiki295 Posted posted on Sun, Jul 20, 2003 11:48 AM More ink for tiki, described as reincarnating the "rat pack" as the "rattan pack" The article's description of tiki: Hawaiian music Disneyland's Enchanted Tiki Room Martin Denny Kirsten's BOT Teitelbaum's Tiki Road Trip Pottery Barn's tiki bar & huts for tikes Shag Bosko (Venus/Taboo Cove omitted) (inexcusable & sloppy research in my opinion) the closing of the Kahiki (great picture) tiki torches Polynesian Pop Scorpion bowls Tiki palaces: Mai Kai Tonga Room Trader Vics Hala Kahiki (Chicago) Waiki Wally's (NY) Best quote: "That's the attraction of all thins tiki: Artificats from a mythical paradise -- Easter Island drink mugs, pineapple-shaped patio lights are authentically inauthentic in their exoticism."
AC Atomic Cocktail Tiki Socialite Land O' The Next Big One-L.A. Joined: Jun 25, 2002 Posts: 929	AC Atomic Cocktail Posted posted on Mon, Jul 21, 2003 1:53 PM Whe! I'm glad they told me!
M MTKahuna Tiki Socialite LB to LA, CA Joined: Jun 11, 2003 Posts: 477	M MTKahuna Posted posted on Mon, Jul 21, 2003 2:33 PM They left out: spending endless hours shopping for tiki's, taking vacations that center around tiki's, and only doing activities that involve drinking & tiki's. I think that covers it?

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christiki295 Posted posted on Sun, Jul 20, 2003 11:48 AM

More ink for tiki, described as reincarnating the "rat pack" as the "rattan pack"

The article's description of tiki:

Hawaiian music
Disneyland's Enchanted Tiki Room
Martin Denny
Kirsten's BOT
Teitelbaum's Tiki Road Trip
Pottery Barn's tiki bar & huts for tikes
Shag
Bosko (Venus/Taboo Cove omitted) (inexcusable & sloppy research in my opinion)
the closing of the Kahiki (great picture)
tiki torches
Polynesian Pop
Scorpion bowls

Tiki palaces:

Mai Kai
Tonga Room
Trader Vics
Hala Kahiki (Chicago)
Waiki Wally's (NY)

Best quote:

"That's the attraction of all thins tiki: Artificats from a mythical paradise -- Easter Island drink mugs, pineapple-shaped patio lights are authentically inauthentic in their exoticism."

AC

Atomic Cocktail Posted posted on Mon, Jul 21, 2003 1:53 PM

Whe! I'm glad they told me!

M

MTKahuna Posted posted on Mon, Jul 21, 2003 2:33 PM

They left out:
spending endless hours shopping for tiki's, taking vacations that center around tiki's, and only doing activities that involve drinking & tiki's.

I think that covers it?