In the 1950s and 1960s, Americans were obsessed with “tiki culture,” the
relaxing, tropical lifestyle that they perceived was led in Hawaii and
the rest of Polynesia. It flourished from the stories brought home by
World War II soldiers, Hawaii’s statehood in 1959, and the hit musical
South Pacific. While tiki culture is no longer a nationwide fad, some of
the kitschy bars that flourished during that era are still around, and
new ones spring up occasionally to give folks a taste of a tropical
paradise, whether they can actually visit that paradise or not. Check
out nine of those bars that you can still visit, in
a list posted at mental_floss.
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