#tiki culture
The Sinking Ship, tiki bar in a basement, downtown Bakersfield CA
Sueño con ser propietario de un Bar Tiki, cultura que me obsesiona desde hace muchos años y tuvo su auge en EE.UU. entre los 1930 y los 1960. El documental Plastic Paradise: A Swingin’ Trip Through America’s Polynesian Obsession explica bien su origen. Los bares Tiki eran como parques temáticos, un fenómeno de marketing que combinaba música polinesia, comida china y bebidas caribeñas para crear un falso ambiente exótico que cautivaba a la clase media estadounidense.
I dream of owning a Tiki Bar, a culture that has obsessed me for many years and had its heyday in the US between the 1930s and 1960s. The documentary ‘Plastic Paradise: A Swingin’ Trip Through America’s Polynesian Obsession’ explains it well its origin. Tiki bars were like theme parks, a marketing phenomenon that combined Polynesian music, Chinese food, and Caribbean drinks to create a faux-exotic atmosphere that captivated middle-class America.
A young woman strumming a ukulele. Photograph by Eliot Elisofon. Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, January 1948.
Cultura Tiki.
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