April 26, 2008

Ephemera: Are you a Tiki fan?

If you are - like the eminent MrBaliHai of Eye of the Goof - a Tiki* fan, you will surely love Arkiva Tropika which is loaded with great Tiki ephemera like beautiful menus, place mats, postcards and match covers from different Tiki restaurants, bars, hotels and clubs...

Aloha!




* "Tiki culture in the United States began in 1934 with the opening of Don the Beachcomber, a Polynesian-themed bar and restaurant in Hollywood. The proprietor was Ernest Raymond Beaumont-Gantt, a young man from Louisiana who had sailed throughout the South Pacific; later he legally changed his name to Donn Beach..." (continue reading the Wikipedia article)


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