I always love hearing people’s tiki origin stories. I find it fascinating learning the seeds and the steps a person has experienced on their way into the tiki lifestyle. This is one man’s tiki story. His name is Gregor, he’s from Germany and he asks…
Is Gregor into Tiki? What do you think?
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I’d like to present to you this article by Don Logay. He reached out to me a couple months ago and asked if I could help him out with information for an article he was going to write about living the tiki lifestyle. I was flattered to be asked to be a resource and I talked with Don over the phone giving him all the tiki knowledge I can. Don really did his homework and his write up on the tiki lifestyle covers all the bases! Click on Tiki Lifestyle by Don Logay or you can read it here in Vegas Legal Magazine
Enjoy!
Back in the 90’s during the Tiki Revival, before the internet, you learned about tiki by word of mouth, searching out tiki yourself or you read Tiki News. Tiki News was a fanzine created by Otto Von Stroheim and it was very DIY, underground and super cool! Matt Watson lives in Mexico City and decided to get the word out about tiki in Mexico by doing it old school, he started his own tiki fanzine! It’s called La Cultura Tiki Fanzine and I LOVE this! Here is Matt’s story on how the tiki fanzine started and where it’s going…
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By the time you read this, I will be fifty years old …
Continue reading “My “Don’t Tell Ray” Surprise 50th Birthday Party At Devil’s Reef”
What is Butlin’s?
What is a Holiday Camp?
And what’s a tiki bar called The Beachcomber Bar doing there?
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Some get chocolates for Valentine’s Day …
Some get roses …
Some get a romantic evening,
But for Angela Hoffmann, Her husband gave her a trailer!
And Angela themed it Tiki!
Here is the story of a tiki themed trailer called My Funny Valentine …
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Visiting your first tiki bar and sipping your first Mai Tai can be a life changing experience. It was for me and for many others who fell in love with tiki culture. As you start to get more and more into tiki, you realize that there’s so much to discover, there’s tiki art, fashion, escapism, mugs and last but not least, cocktails. Tiki Triangle by Justin Cristaldi is a great book to help you enter into this wonderful world of tiki. Tiki Triangle has chapters on the history of tiki, tiki’s connections to WW2, food, rum, ingredients and tons of tiki cocktail recipes!
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Bob and Tiffany Potter used to have their own tiki bar back in the day, when they lived in Ohio. After the kids moved out, so did Bob and Tiffany, and they headed south to Dunedin, Florida. They thought about building another tiki bar in their new home but saw that everyone rides around in golf carts down there. Bob and Tiffany bought their own cart as well and turned it into a Tiki Golf Cart and this thing turns heads!
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There’re a couple of choices when deciding where you go on a first date …
Coffee? Dinner? Movie? How about a Tiki Bar! Angela and JR have known each other since high school, but didn’t go on their first “official” date till 22 years later. They decided to meet up at Tiki Underground in Hudson Ohio. There must have been a spark because now they’re married! Here is their story …
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