On 2007-11-08 13:17, Cammo wrote:
It's bizarre, because there were actually more Tiki Palaces in existance in the 1980s than today. But everybody seems to think the 80s were the Tiki low point????

..true, but alot of them were either dead or dying...running out of business or in the process of being remodeled or torn down...it was the transition period between old tiki and tikis revival....it's considered a low point because so much was lost before it had a chance to be appreciated by those in the revival that would follow....i think we just consider that period more lamentable, cause we can never get it back...we will never see a building as grand as the kahiki ever again, simply because no one in this day and age is willing to spend that kind of money on that type of building design - (and this is the truly shameful part of trader vics las vegas....all that money available and they still crapped it up)


And there's a sliding scale going on here. Mugs from the 1940s are more vintage than those from the 1970s. Is 'vintage' just another designer word for 'old'? Are 1920s Hawaiiana cups and mugs more 'vintage'?


..if one wants to split hairs, then yes....but for simplicities sake i usually consider it all vintage.....


I just think it's a nice name for strange old stuff. It's not a science. It's an art.