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Page 8 The Antique Shoppe August, 2018
Hukilau in Ft. Lauderdale

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Antique Shoppe Newspaper Heeds the Call of the Tropics

to our advertisers, By William Flood
they make it FREE for you!
Interest in tiki pop is cropping up
-Thanks everywhere today. It’s a subculture
connected with the popularity of mid-
century modern and is showing up in
home tiki bars, new establishments,
Dade City & San Antonio and events like the annual Hukilau
in Fort Lauderdale. For those of
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you who are unfamiliar with the tiki
movement, think tiki art meets mid-
Meridian Ave
century modern, surf rock, and Mai
DADE CITY Tai’s.
Tiki culture in America originated Some of the many
in California during the 1930’s with vintage tiki mugs for
52 Clinton Ave the opening of Don the Beachcomber sale at the Hukilau
4 in Los Angeles and Trader Vic’s in Tiki Room.
Oakland. Trader Vic’s was the first
Polynesian Popular culture
577 579 place that festooned itself with South faded in popularity in the mid-
579A Ft. King Hwy. 301 98 Seas decor like fish nets, puffer fish 1960s as baby boomers rejected the
lamps, bamboo furniture, and carved
75 tiki statues. The movement grew in values and tastes of their parents’
39 popularity after World War II when generation. The Hippie generation,
returning American GI’s who were with its outcries over the Vietnam
War and civil rights came to view
Park your car in the treeshaded city lots and stroll stationed in the South Pacific sought the once trendy and stylish as tacky
to bring an idealized sense of the
among our antique and collectible shops. Enjoy our tropics back to their workaday lives. and degrading to native Pacific
populations. By the end of the 1970s,
Tiki Pop got another shot in the arm
small town charms. We’d love to have you! when Hawaii was annexed as a state tiki’s popularity had nearly vanished
and Polynesian bars and restaurants
ZEPHYRHILLS in 1959. Americans fell in love with began closing in droves.
their romanticized version of the
But, tiki got rediscovered. In the
To Tampa Celebrating Antiques 54 5th Ave. tropics; and soon, basement tiki bars late 1990s and
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and restaurants
YEARS!
on the
early 2000s,
MAin street 1 Gall Blvd. began Some of the enthusiasts
springing up
vintage Hawaiiana
mostly based
41 39 everywhere. available at the in tiki’s
Specializing Polynesian Hukilau
in influence epicenter
Primitives 301 of Southern
2 To Plant City began to California
To Tampa 3 infuse began
everything
from home hunting down
Peggy Capps, Proprietor accessories to remnants of
(352) 523-0999 architecture. the culture
- tiki mugs,
14122 7th STREET DADE CITY Today what carvings, and
DADE CITY, FL 33525 3 is referred to even exotica
as Polynesian records from
Popular Martin Denny
AMERICAN EAGLE style became and Les
ANTIQUES fashionable Baxter waning in local thrift shops
in homes, restaurants, bowling or available for pennies at local yard
14232 7th Street alleys, and motels. Everything sales. Soon, a new movement was
Dade City, FL 33523 from furniture to entire buildings born as these devotees started piecing
352-521-3361 was game for a South Seas look; it
OpEN 7 DAyS 11-5:30 was a strange juxtaposition to the together the almost vanished culture.
Tiki’s revival welded together layers
clean modern lines of atomic age of kitsch - not only tiki but nautical,
AMERICAN EAGLE Late Century Modern Furniture design that just seemed to work. rat rod, surf culture, pirates themes
ANTIQUES, TOO Decorative Arts & Accessories Tiki themes even spilled over into and even icons from monster movies
Featuring Fine Antiques 11853 Curley St, San Antonio dress, food, movies and television being woven in. The revived interest
(think McHale’s Navy and Gilligan’s
14119 7th Street 6 mi. from Dade City / 11 mi. from Zephyrhills Island). Eventually, theme parks in tiki culture spawned the opening
Dade City, FL 33523 352-588-2001 picked up on the popularity. Tiki of brand new tiki establishments but
352-521-0390 www.sanantonioantiquesflorida.com more importantly created a new
OpEN 10-5 MON-SAT Proprietor, John C. Herrmann 4 sprung up at Disney with the
Polynesian Resort and the Enchanted Continued on Page 30