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Friday, July 4th, 2008
July 25th: Curse Of The Surf Tiki at Hula Hula!
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Friday, May 23rd, 2008
The Home Bar: Resurrection of a Mid-20th Century Domestic Icon, Pt. 5
Welcome to part 5, the last chapter of The Home Bar: Resurrection of a Mid-20th Century Domestic Icon. In the previous chapter we ended in the early 2000s with the neo-Tiki craze and the home bar’s biggest resurgence in domestic culture, Tiki or otherwise. As they once did in the mid-20th Century, people again began entertaining guests at home, […]
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Saturday, February 16th, 2008
The Home Bar: Resurrection of a Mid-20th Century Domestic Icon, Pt. 4
Welcome to Part 4 of The Home Bar: Resurrection of a Mid-20th Century Domestic Icon. In the last chapter we ended with the mid-1990s and the cocktail revival and Lounge music craze, as well as my Home Bar Review journalism for my own short-lived ‘zine, Cocktail Review, and Russ Scheidelman’s half-decade-running periodical Organ & Bongos.
Tiki News founder and editor, […]
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Sunday, February 3rd, 2008
The Home Bar: Resurrection of a Mid-20th Century Domestic Icon, Pt. 3
Welcome to Part 3 of The Home Bar: Resurrection of a Mid-20th Century Domestic Icon. At the end of Part 2 we were heading into the 1990s, a decade that saw, unpredictably, a resurgence of home bars and increased popularity in the cocktail.
In retrospect it’s difficult to determine what brought back the home bar or […]
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Sunday, January 27th, 2008
The Home Bar: Resurrection of a Mid-20th Century Domestic Icon, Pt. 2
Welcome back to Part Two of The Home Bar: Resurrection of a Mid-20th Century Domestic Icon. As stated in the previous post, the home bar’s heyday was primarily in the 1950s & ’60s and, to a lesser degree, the ’70s. By the time the 1980s reared its head, many of the old cultural standards of the previous […]
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Saturday, January 19th, 2008
The Home Bar: Resurrection of a Mid-20th Century Domestic Icon
During the 1950s, ’60s and, to a lesser extent, the ’70s, the home bar was as much a part of American culture as baseball, apple-pie, and Chevrolet. In homes ranging from prosperous businessmen and celebrities to swingin’ bachelors and middle-class married men, the home bar was primarily a male aspect of domestic culture, like brill cream, aqua velva, […]
