New Luau in Beverly Hills? - General Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Tue, Oct 28, 2008 10:36 PM Big Jeff, you can't be serious. Have you seen ANY restaurant postcards from the 50s that were lit in the mood lighting that the restaurants actually were lit in? C'mon. Of course it was flash photography all the way. (That's on aspect were Gonegoannas is right: Vintage Tiki Lounge photos do not represent the lighting mood of a Tiki Bar well.) Ben, I KNOW they are not trying to be the old Luau. Obviously. But they could have done better in imbuing the place with the original Luaus SPIRIT and MANA, instead of a pale pastiche of it (that's the opposite of Polynesian panache). Let me recap: The old Luau was THE Tiki Bar. But they don't want it to be a Tiki Bar. And they don't want it to be the old Luau. Uh, why did they CALL it The Luau again? Sorry, I promise I'll stop (if you won't give me cause to continue, that is...) :)

Big Jeff, you can't be serious. Have you seen ANY restaurant postcards from the 50s that were lit in the mood lighting that the restaurants actually were lit in? C'mon. Of course it was flash photography all the way. (That's on aspect were Gonegoannas is right: Vintage Tiki Lounge photos do not represent the lighting mood of a Tiki Bar well.)

Ben, I KNOW they are not trying to be the old Luau. Obviously. But they could have done better in imbuing the place with the original Luaus SPIRIT and MANA, instead of a pale pastiche of it (that's the opposite of Polynesian panache).

Let me recap: The old Luau was THE Tiki Bar. But they don't want it to be a Tiki Bar. And they don't want it to be the old Luau. Uh, why did they CALL it The Luau again?

Sorry, I promise I'll stop (if you won't give me cause to continue, that is...) :)

Post #416039 by bigbrotiki on Tue, Oct 28, 2008 10:36 PM