Post #742733 by tikijackskeleton on Mon, May 11, 2015 3:34 AM

Here's my story - I roll with a group of folks who, well, aren't your standard tiki fans. But I would make a weekly meet up over at Tunga Hut back when they had buck PBR a half decade or so back. It eventually got bumped up to $2 per can. While I wasn't expecting these, for the most part, poor or financially strapped folks to get a tiki drink, I would encourage hanging out at the spot and they became weekly regulars.

Now that they have the cash flow in better jobs after all these years, they're more than happy to wax nostalgia over tiki bars and get into scene.

So stop with the stupid hipster hate, folks. Hipster isn't even a proper way to describe these, or any folks. It's usually the catch all to describe someone who simply is not like yourself. And in a subculture like Tiki, we really shouldn't be hating on others.

As for Tiki Ti and the news, man a lot of news sites just jumped on whatever the FB feed was and rolled with it without doing proper journalism, which was the biggest tragedy of it all.

And yeah, we may be a little shell shocked by how Bahooka's closed, but this clearly wasn't that sort of situation.

I'm a fan of Tiki Ti, I've introduced many many many folks to drunken stumbling nights there. Had tiki crawls, had benders to celebrate. Yeah, had it all. But typically I always just did it early in the evening to avoid the crowds - which most of you would just lump into "hipsters".

I'm glad they're not going away, but you have to admit, or at least I will as a 35 year old, old fart, that even going to places like Tiki Oasis or Tiki Caliente - the average tiki enthusiast makes me feel young.

So how about we curb the hate for new blood, cause Uh-oha knows that we're going to need a next generation of tiki lovers to keep the craft going in a few years.