Sometimes trying to figure out a name for your home tiki bar can be a little challenging. For Dave Gambale though, it was easy! He named his home tiki bar after one of his old favorite tiki bars from San Mateo … The Lanai.
Kim and Dave Gambale have since moved up to Vancouver WA, so The Lanai Vancouver it is! Here is Dave’s story …
Continue reading “Home Tiki Bar Spotlight #55 – The Lanai Vancouver, Vancouver WA”
I will always remember driving to New York City from Pennsylvania, the first thing you would see was the twin towers of The World Trade Center. Those towers were tall! I wonder if it was just me, but there was always this weird optical illusion with the twin towers, the further away you were from them, the larger they appeared!
But when you were Downtown, near the WTC, they didn’t seem nearly so big.
The McMenamins Elks Temple in Tacoma Washington doesn’t look that big from the outside, but you have no idea just how huge this place is until you step inside …
We all know Star Wars isn’t Tiki and Tiki isn’t Star Wars, but can you combine the two?
I believe that answer is YES! Proof positive of a perfect example of a Star Wars themed tiki bar is Peter Haugen’s Tatooiniki. Peter combined elements of Luke Skywalker’s home planet Tatooine and a classic tiki bar to create a truly unique space. Here is how his home tiki bar, Tatooiniki, came to be. A Long Tiki Time Ago, In A Tiki Galaxy Far, Far, Away …
Continue reading “Home Tiki Bar Spotlight #54 Tatooiniki – Maplewood, NJ”
You know? You should start a blog!
And with that, Jay Cocorullo became Trader Jay and started blogging! Jay is based out of sunny Florida and grew up on a steady diet of Walt Disney World and The Enchanted Tiki Room. When Trader Sam’s Grog Grotto opened, things were taken to a new level with Jay. Here is his story …
Jeff Nelson is a tiki mug collector and he has a confession to make …
Continue reading “Confessions Of A Tiki Mug Collector #1 Jeff Nelson – Lake Stevens WA”
The first time I visited Duke and Lola’s home bar, it was a cigar lounge and whiskey bar called the Elephant Head Bar. It had a really great vibe, but I thought that as cool as the bar was, it would be so much cooler if it was a tiki bar! Well, they must have read my mind because that’s exactly what they did. In between filming videos for their BossaNova Life channel, they converted their home bar into a secret tiki escape called the Atomic Bikini Grotto! Here is their story …
Continue reading “Home Tiki Bar Spotlight #53 Atomic Bikini Grotto – Springfield OR”
On this episode of Secret Tiki Escapes we feature Duke and Lola’s own home tiki bar called The Atomic Bikini Grotto.
Continue reading “Secret Tiki Escapes – Season 2, Episode 1: The Atomic Bikini Grotto”
I like my tiki escapism with a little bit of time travel thrown in …
When you enter Dawn and Bill’s tiki bar, you’re not only walking into a tiki bar, you’re walking back in time. Tiki Lanes and the Lava Lounge was designed like a home tiki bar that would have been built back in the sixties. You got wood paneling covering the walls, a checkerboard tiled floor … and did I mention a bowling score table?
Continue reading “Home Tiki Bar Spotlight #52 Tiki Lanes and the Lava Lounge – Wichita KS”
The Tiki Lifestyle is going to be the death of me, unless I make some changes …
