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Chicago Area Tiki Tour The Red Palms Chapter of the Order sponsored a bus tour of tiki bars in the Chicago area September 30-October 2, 2011. The event, called CATT, was similar to the already established NorthEast Tiki Tour (NETT). [45] All proceeds from a charity raffle at the event benefited CatNap from the Heart, a local non-profit animal ...
The Kahiki restaurant was established at the height of popularity for tiki culture in the United States. Its owners, Bill Sapp and Lee Henry, had operated a bar nearby, the Grass Shack. The Polynesian-themed bar was frequented by World War II veterans in the 1950s. It was destroyed in a fire, prompting creation of the Kahiki Supper Club. [3]
A tiki bar is a themed drinking establishment that serves elaborate cocktails, especially rum-based mixed drinks such as the Mai Tai and Zombie cocktails. [1] Tiki bars are aesthetically defined by their tiki culture décor which is based upon a romanticized conception of tropical cultures, most commonly Polynesian.
Three Dots and a Dash is a craft cocktail tiki bar in the River North neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. Three Dots and a Dash was one of the first tiki bars with a consideration to mixology, along with Smuggler's Cove in San Francisco which opened in 2009. The bar was a success almost immediately; it sold 6,000 drinks per week in its first ...
The original tiki bar is said to be Don the Beachcomber, whose first location opened in Los Angeles in 1934. Ernest Beaumont Gantt, the owner, had traveled through the Caribbean and Pacific before ...
[131] [132] Rockabilly artist Brian Setzer released his album The Dirty Boogie in 1998, featuring retro tiki bar images on its cover. Taboo: The Art of Tiki was released in 1999, with artists such as Mark Ryden and Shag also employing tiki imagery in retro eclectic paintings. [133] [134] [135] [136]
Big Chicks is a gay bar and neighborhood restaurant that opened in 1986 in Uptown, Chicago. [1] It serves a diverse group of LGBT people, straight people and people in the kink community. The owner of the establishment is Michelle Fire .
[note 1] The bar had been founded in the mid-1940s and was located in an area known as Glitter Gulch, [4] which, according to author and LGBT historian St. Sukie de la Croix, was "a notorious strip of syndicate-owned cheap motels and seedy nightclubs". [11] Regarding the club itself, historian Marie J. Kuda called it "a rather sleazy suburban ...