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Tiki Central fan website?

Okolehao

Okolehao

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Working on the assumption that after two years of being dark we'll probably never see it resurrected, I'm thinking of creating a Tiki Central fan website with dedicated links to captured images done by the non-profit Internet Archive , a 501(c)(3) non-profit that's building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form.
TC wasn't just a hobby forum. It was a successful virtual community that was its own important cultural institution. It brought together people from all over the world and nurtured an artistic and lifestyle movement far more creative and diverse than the midcentury Polynesian Pop that inspired it. After 20 years in existence there must be plenty of stories of how TC influenced people's lives directly and indirectly. Are there any alumni interested in seeing such a site created? How would you envision it?
 
I think having any of that material available would be a good thing. That site was up for many years, losing it was terrible for the Tiki community.

Good luck with the project!
 
Great idea! I would love to see a resurrection of the posts and information! I felt like the community was broken up when we lost that site.
 
Okolehao said:
Working on the assumption that after two years of being dark we'll probably never see it resurrected, I'm thinking of creating a Tiki Central fan website with dedicated links to captured images done by the non-profit Internet Archive , a 501(c)(3) non-profit that's building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form.
TC wasn't just a hobby forum. It was a successful virtual community that was its own important cultural institution. It brought together people from all over the world and nurtured an artistic and lifestyle movement far more creative and diverse than the midcentury Polynesian Pop that inspired it. After 20 years in existence there must be plenty of stories of how TC influenced people's lives directly and indirectly. Are there any alumni interested in seeing such a site created? How would you envision it?
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Fantastic idea. I really miss TC.
 
Okolehao said:
Working on the assumption that after two years of being dark we'll probably never see it resurrected, I'm thinking of creating a Tiki Central fan website with dedicated links to captured images done by the non-profit Internet Archive , a 501(c)(3) non-profit that's building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form.
TC wasn't just a hobby forum. It was a successful virtual community that was its own important cultural institution. It brought together people from all over the world and nurtured an artistic and lifestyle movement far more creative and diverse than the midcentury Polynesian Pop that inspired it. After 20 years in existence there must be plenty of stories of how TC influenced people's lives directly and indirectly. Are there any alumni interested in seeing such a site created? How would you envision it?
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*UPDATE* I created a website called "I Remember Tiki Central" with all the links to the archived pages.
 
That's fun. I didn't realize I was somewhat of an old timer there, joining in 2003. TC's Kanaloa was not me, BTW.

Unfortunately, reviewing my posts, the link to the thread where I think the 60s/70s era secret recipe for TV's "Mai Tai syrup" was posted wasn't archived. Dang it!
 
kanaloa said:
That's fun. I didn't realize I was somewhat of an old timer there, joining in 2003. TC's Kanaloa was not me, BTW.

Unfortunately, reviewing my posts, the link to the thread where I think the 60s/70s era secret recipe for TV's "Mai Tai syrup" was posted wasn't archived. Dang it!
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kanaloa said:
That's fun. I didn't realize I was somewhat of an old timer there, joining in 2003. TC's Kanaloa was not me, BTW.

Unfortunately, reviewing my posts, the link to the thread where I think the 60s/70s era secret recipe for TV's "Mai Tai syrup" was posted wasn't archived. Dang it!
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We’ll have to hunt for the recipe. Do you remember who posted it? Their members page listing may have an email contact.
 
Okolehao said:
We’ll have to hunt for the recipe. Do you remember who posted it? Their members page listing may have an email contact.
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No idea. I know that it was originally posted on a defunct VA/DC tiki forum (and I couldn't find it in the archived threads about the restaurant), and I'm pretty sure it got cross posted to TC at some point in a thread about the also defunct Honolulu restaurant/bar. It was mostly boiled down and concentrated Coke, with orange curacao and bitters IIRC.

After the owners retired, they bottled and sold it (time2tiki.com/mai_tai_mix.htm) and it makes a decent facsimile of the Mai Tai they used to serve. The ingredients were cola syrup, bitters, curacao, and "cordial syrup" which I take to be some form of orgeat. Unfortunately, while their site is still up, I think it like many old tiki sites it is really defunct - some dead links, email contacts are dead and bounce back, and everything's been out of stock for almost 2 years now. They still had his Mai Tai mix for sale in late 2019, but I didn't buy any since I still had 3 bottles. Now I'm down to about 1/10 of my last bottle.
 
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