Before I was into tiki, I was into punk …
Author: Ray
Tiki Blogging #9 Trader Jay’s
You know? You should start a blog!
And with that, Jay Cocorullo became Trader Jay and started blogging! Jay is based out of sunny Florida and grew up on a steady diet of Walt Disney World and The Enchanted Tiki Room. When Trader Sam’s Grog Grotto opened, things were taken to a new level with Jay. Here is his story …
Confessions Of A Tiki Mug Collector #1 Jeff Nelson – Lake Stevens WA
Jeff Nelson is a tiki mug collector and he has a confession to make …
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Home Tiki Bar Spotlight #53 Atomic Bikini Grotto – Springfield OR
The first time I visited Duke and Lola’s home bar, it was a cigar lounge and whiskey bar called the Elephant Head Bar. It had a really great vibe, but I thought that as cool as the bar was, it would be so much cooler if it was a tiki bar! Well, they must have read my mind because that’s exactly what they did. In between filming videos for their BossaNova Life channel, they converted their home bar into a secret tiki escape called the Atomic Bikini Grotto! Here is their story …
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Secret Tiki Escapes – Season 2, Episode 1: The Atomic Bikini Grotto
On this episode of Secret Tiki Escapes we feature Duke and Lola’s own home tiki bar called The Atomic Bikini Grotto.
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Home Tiki Bar Spotlight #52 Tiki Lanes and the Lava Lounge – Wichita KS
I like my tiki escapism with a little bit of time travel thrown in …
When you enter Dawn and Bill’s tiki bar, you’re not only walking into a tiki bar, you’re walking back in time. Tiki Lanes and the Lava Lounge was designed like a home tiki bar that would have been built back in the sixties. You got wood paneling covering the walls, a checkerboard tiled floor … and did I mention a bowling score table?
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Low Carb Tiki Diet: Part 1: Introduction
The Tiki Lifestyle is going to be the death of me, unless I make some changes …
Home Tiki Bar Spotlight #51 Cacalito’s Tiki Grotto – Sunrise FL
When most people in Florida think of a tiki bar, they think of a thatched bar that’s bright and open, not a traditional tiki bar that’s dark and mysterious. Cacalito knew what a tiki bar should be and created his own. After traveling the country visiting tiki bars for “research”, he got to work transforming his man cave into Cacalito’s Tiki Grotto!
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Bay Area Suburban Tiki is a Mixed Bag By Kevin Crossman (Ultimate Mai-Tai)
The Bay Area has one of the greatest concentrations of Tiki Bars in the world, but once you leave the urbane confines of San Francisco and Oakland things get a little different. This is a look at tiki bars of the Bay Area Suburbs.
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Tiki VIP #38 Howard Moore III – Moore Ukuleles and Tiki Carver
There are ukuleles and then there’s Moore Ukuleles!
As a guitar player, I’ve always had a love for the six-stringed instrument that I hung down in front of me. Not only is a guitar an instrument, but it’s also functional art. A guitar can sound good and look even better! Howard Moore III makes Ukuleles and I don’t know if they should be played or hung up on the wall, because they are so beautiful! Oh, and Howard also carves Tikis. Here is his story …
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