Oh how, a Kahiki mention. I'm born and raised in Columbus, and used to visit Kahiki for my birthday every year. It was my favorite restaurant of all time and I now try to collect everything I can with ties to it. There used to be a framed letter from Michael Eisner praising how much he enjoyed it in a visit, but mistakenly referred to it as "The Tiki Room" which was the bar inside the larger restaurant. Great channel and it's an inspiration to build my own little area when the snow melts.
Today is May 29th 2020, and boy do I need an escape. This was 47 minutes of my life very well spent. I was lucky enough to visit the Breezeway MANY years ago, and to see how its grown is astounding. Im a big fan of more is more and layers and dark bars. Spike has really knocked it out of the park with this Tiki Bar Experience.
Spike.....SO glad I came across your posts. I love Tiki from the vibe, music, drinks, culture, history, etc. Your collection and bar are sweet. I love your drink recipes as well......can NEVER have too much rum❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️
Man I am loving your channel. What an amazing and magical place you have created. I am just now getting my backyard prepped for a Tiki bar build. Then prepping myself and my wallet to bleed for a few years good and proper, lol. My Tiki trajectory = Monster Kid growing up, bay area thrash bands leads to punk rock (played in a bunch of those bands), leads to rockabilly (though I never wore the uniform) quickly into old school r&b, cycling back now and am surf and bongo beat obsessed, crossed with a serious addiction to female jazz/torch stuff like Peggy Lee. Hopefully when the Red Death lifts, I will find people here in Seattle in the scene to hang with. And man oh man am I looking forward to seeing The Hula Girls at some piont too. Been listening to your stuff a bunch this last week. It makes me happy and makes me smile. What a gift in these caustic times. Thank you!
Very cool! Thanks for the tour!! I went to the final two tiki party & sales at Don The Beachcomber. I’m sad to see the place gone.. I’m thankful that several historic pieces from that bar went to a good home, a really splendid tiki bar, cheers
I lived not far from the Bahooka Tiki Bar in Rosemead, Ca. without a doubt the BEST Tiki Bar I ever visited! What an atmosphere! I had a roommate who tended there. I'd come in on dates, and MY drinks were free. I'm sure the owner would have frowned on that, but WTF! The dozens of bubbling fish tanks that lined the walls really added to the experience. The food was good, too! Sad to see it go.
That tiki you found that has dry rot, you can use Minwax Wood Hardener or PC Wood Petrifier to give the wood it’s integrity back. It soaks in and makes it hard again. You can pull the wood together with wood glue, (Titebond 3 is a good water proof wood glue)you can use glue syringes if needed to get the glue in deep, a simple nylon strap with a buckle can help pull it together till the glue sets. Love your place and your videos are so awesome. Cheers!🍹🦜
Seeing how Tiki is such cardinal point on your compass I'm certain that you'd really dig hearing my true tales of the exotic islands, & how my family was instrumental in launching very first Tiki bar in 1930's Hollywood, Don's Beachcomber. Will MSG you on FB. Nice tour, but was damn thirsty by the end and really expected you to shake & pour something cool as a wrap up...Mahalo (BTW we've met more than once)
I've just gotten into tiki, by that I mean I literally discovered it yesterday, I'm a rockabilly guy but I love all mid-century stuff (mostly 40s-late 60s), this bar is amazing, I have no idea if I will ever make my own bar but this vid makes me want to completely redesign my bedroom haha
Lots of layers in there! So awesome that you have all those connections and have been able to get artifacts from historical tiki bars. I could totally live in that space! Very well done! I also really like the couple of videos of The Hula Girls that I have been able to find so far. I hope there is more to discover.
Wow! This brought back so many warm and touching memories of Oceanic Arts, Bahooka, Bamboo Ben, Don the Beachcombers, and my childhood in Newport Beach, etc. What an amazing frickin' job you've done! I love the vintage purity, imagination, layering, superb lighting and eye-popping attention to detail. And how I'd love to visit the breezeway some day! Mahalo for the thorough tour!
I love your setup. Having African things in the decor does not detract from the effect. I have a South African mask that I display in mine that blends in well.
🤩😍🤩😍🤩 What a wonderful Tikilicious space, Spike! A tiki dream! Thanks for the inspiration! The tiki gods are definitely blessing you with amazing treasures at such great deals😊. Mahalo for the Breezeway tour🤙🌺
I am so impressed! I think I saw little glimpses of the breezeway when you first started but what you have ended up with is amazing! You have a gift for putting together just the right combination of great stuff to make a legendary tiki bar. Thank you so much for sharing, I just subscribed so I am looking forward to seeing more of your shows!
@@BreezewayCocktailHour Easier said than done, I appreciate your humility but it takes a lot of talent to put together a space like the Breezeway!!! Also you are a bad influence, since watching this video I have purchased a cool mask and a Vacation Village ashtray for my tiki bar, lol!
Incredible space. Love your attention to detail and the stories of the items you've collected. A couple of years ago, I came across your built on tiki central, and it was what eventually inspired me to build my own tiki bar at home.
Love the tour, great execution on your Tiki space. This is your space and you have built into it what inspires you, but I have one question. I see a lot of home Tiki bars that have some Pirate theming added and you say Pirates have no place in Tiki bars, wrong ocean. So the question is aren't most Tiki cocktails based on Caribbean drinks and wouldn't that include islands that had Pirate activity? Yo, Ho, Ho, and a bottle of rum. I have to say living in Florida Pirate items seem to be more readily available than Polynesian artifacts.
Ken Hampton yeah, I certainly get what you're saying. And I've noticed that more pirate stuff kinda happens in home bars on the east coast, but the original theming of tiki was always the Pacific Islands as per Don Beach, Trader Vic, the soldiers who came back from the war, and the musical, South Pacific. But as I've always seen people say, put what ever you like into your own space... the purists just may not totally agree. :)
Love your show and the Breezeway. Would you consider doing a new tour of the Breezeway with all the changes? Can you tell me the rough dimensions of the Breezeway? Working on my own home bar and the dimensions would be helpful. Keep up the awesome work.
This video was awesome. Someday I’ll have the space to create my own home tiki bar. I have a lot of the elements just need the place to put them. Love all the lamps you made!
Fantastic & totally agree on layers for a tiki bar. I built one in my basement during the pandemic and it's unofficial name is Corona Cove. I'm a huge fan of Frankie's so LMK if you want to get rid of one of those chairs! How big is your tiki bar?
Very cool bar! I hope to make my own home tiki bar one day, I recently inherited some authentic Kona/Palm fiber wallpaper. It’s like a fabric kinda, but it’s made from woven tree fibers from Hawaii. I look forward to having the space for using it one day.
Any advice on lighting? Built my cabana last year and are now outfitting it with lighting. I know lighting well for indoors, but tiki lighting is a whole different ballgame. Just wondering if you found a sweetspot (watts, type of light or bulb, colors, etc) or even if you had a suggestion for lighting inside of a float. Love this bar!
9985cjham thanks! I tend to think that traditional colored incandescent bulbs are better than LED or modern colored lights… they have a more traditional glow to them. If you can't find a fish flute with a hole in it, I would recommend creating some kind of light that can shine into the float from the outside. When the floats get dusty, the light bounces around in them really nicely.
My goal since moving to Florida 4 years ago...I'm an antique dealer, so thrifting and picking is my jam...so much rattan, so little time, tiki time...oh and more is more...!
As someone who lives in Ohio... you are correct about the need for great tiki bars in Ohio (though we are lucky enough to have a couple of them). Hope to see you and the rest of the Hula Girls performing at one of them in the near future! (PS: I'm trying to convince people that Ohio is a lost Hawaiian island that became an "inland" instead of an island and should be more properly spelled as O'hio -- whaddya think??)
Awesome! Have to ask as I am building my cabana now-do you have to turn on each of those lights individually or do you have them wired together some how? Going to hang a bunch but not sure how to manage the power.
blitzen mike hahhaha... quarantine does weird things to man. 🧔🏻 for lamps, I use actual tapa cloth. I usually find it at estate sales or on craigslist. Just kinda always need to have your eyes open for it, and buy it when you see it (if the price is right.)
tanner sowa my electrician was disgusted when he saw how I was doing it. Let's just say that the proper way is to run multiple junction boxes up in the ceiling. At the very least, use power strips with circuit breakers in them.
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Oh how, a Kahiki mention. I'm born and raised in Columbus, and used to visit Kahiki for my birthday every year. It was my favorite restaurant of all time and I now try to collect everything I can with ties to it. There used to be a framed letter from Michael Eisner praising how much he enjoyed it in a visit, but mistakenly referred to it as "The Tiki Room" which was the bar inside the larger restaurant. Great channel and it's an inspiration to build my own little area when the snow melts.
Great revisiting your first Breezeway video. Such a freakin' cool bar!
Holy Mai Tai, the Breezeway is SO much more epic than I ever imagined.
Mind blown. I’ve been a huge fan of the breezeway for a long time. Awesome to see it in detail.
Thanks, Berto!
Today is May 29th 2020, and boy do I need an escape. This was 47 minutes of my life very well spent. I was lucky enough to visit the Breezeway MANY years ago, and to see how its grown is astounding. Im a big fan of more is more and layers and dark bars. Spike has really knocked it out of the park with this Tiki Bar Experience.
Looks like a scene from a movie!
Really enjoyed and appreciated this episode. It is a great testament to Spike's devotion to Tiki and life overall.
Very impressive work Spike. I'm in awe.
Thank you so much!
Great to finally get a full tour of the Breezeway!
Spike.....SO glad I came across your posts. I love Tiki from the vibe, music, drinks, culture, history, etc. Your collection and bar are sweet. I love your drink recipes as well......can NEVER have too much rum❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️
Welcome aboard!
Wow, so many unique handmade lanterns...
I can't even find the words for how much I love what you have created.
Man I am loving your channel. What an amazing and magical place you have created.
I am just now getting my backyard prepped for a Tiki bar build. Then prepping myself and my wallet to bleed for a few years good and proper, lol.
My Tiki trajectory = Monster Kid growing up, bay area thrash bands leads to punk rock (played in a bunch of those bands), leads to rockabilly (though I never wore the uniform) quickly into old school r&b, cycling back now and am surf and bongo beat obsessed, crossed with a serious addiction to female jazz/torch stuff like Peggy Lee.
Hopefully when the Red Death lifts, I will find people here in Seattle in the scene to hang with. And man oh man am I looking forward to seeing The Hula Girls at some piont too. Been listening to your stuff a bunch this last week. It makes me happy and makes me smile. What a gift in these caustic times.
Thank you!
A Movie Every Day wow, what an interesting route to tiki! I be lying if I didn't say that early Metallica was my 'guitar teacher.'
Very cool! Thanks for the tour!!
I went to the final two tiki party & sales at Don The Beachcomber.
I’m sad to see the place gone.. I’m thankful that several historic pieces from that bar went to a good home, a really splendid tiki bar, cheers
I lived not far from the Bahooka Tiki Bar in Rosemead, Ca. without a doubt the BEST Tiki Bar I ever visited! What an atmosphere! I had a roommate who tended there. I'd come in on dates, and MY drinks were free. I'm sure the owner would have frowned on that, but WTF! The dozens of bubbling fish tanks that lined the walls really added to the experience. The food was good, too! Sad to see it go.
Sad that we lost the Bahooka... I performed there twice.
Too Cool! Really Awesome Stuff! Giving me some Great Ideas for mine! Very Talented! Love Your Music too!
I'm blown away! Your bar is so awesome.
Tiki With Ray thank you so much 👌🏻
That tiki you found that has dry rot, you can use Minwax Wood Hardener or PC Wood Petrifier to give the wood it’s integrity back. It soaks in and makes it hard again. You can pull the wood together with wood glue, (Titebond 3 is a good water proof wood glue)you can use glue syringes if needed to get the glue in deep, a simple nylon strap with a buckle can help pull it together till the glue sets. Love your place and your videos are so awesome.
Cheers!🍹🦜
Seeing how Tiki is such cardinal point on your compass I'm certain that you'd really dig hearing my true tales of the exotic islands, & how my family was instrumental in launching very first Tiki bar in 1930's Hollywood, Don's Beachcomber. Will MSG you on FB. Nice tour, but was damn thirsty by the end and really expected you to shake & pour something cool as a wrap up...Mahalo (BTW we've met more than once)
wow amazing bar.! so glad you did such a detailed walkthrough. i hope one day i find myself here, i'm a tiki fan in HB
This is the best home tiki bar video on YT! Keep up the awesome content!
eatmusic16 thank you so much!
I enjoy your creativity. Immersive environments are awesome.
I'm actually sitting at my tiki bar on my back porch. I'm beyond impressed. Everything in there is Sweet! Awesome job. 👍
"More is more" Yes sir. Layers, yes sir. I love it!
I've just gotten into tiki, by that I mean I literally discovered it yesterday, I'm a rockabilly guy but I love all mid-century stuff (mostly 40s-late 60s), this bar is amazing, I have no idea if I will ever make my own bar but this vid makes me want to completely redesign my bedroom haha
Thank you for sharing your "Breezeway Oasis" with us. It's just beyond cool.
Lots of layers in there! So awesome that you have all those connections and have been able to get artifacts from historical tiki bars. I could totally live in that space! Very well done! I also really like the couple of videos of The Hula Girls that I have been able to find so far. I hope there is more to discover.
Wow! This brought back so many warm and touching memories of Oceanic Arts, Bahooka, Bamboo Ben, Don the Beachcombers, and my childhood in Newport Beach, etc. What an amazing frickin' job you've done! I love the vintage purity, imagination, layering, superb lighting and eye-popping attention to detail. And how I'd love to visit the breezeway some day! Mahalo for the thorough tour!
Hey Spike! Thanks for the indepth tour of The Breezeway. I'm looking forward to your upcoming drink videos.
I love your setup. Having African things in the decor does not detract from the effect. I have a South African mask that I display in mine that blends in well.
🤩😍🤩😍🤩 What a wonderful Tikilicious space, Spike! A tiki dream! Thanks for the inspiration! The tiki gods are definitely blessing you with amazing treasures at such great deals😊. Mahalo for the Breezeway tour🤙🌺
Cool home bar
I am so impressed! I think I saw little glimpses of the breezeway when you first started but what you have ended up with is amazing! You have a gift for putting together just the right combination of great stuff to make a legendary tiki bar. Thank you so much for sharing, I just subscribed so I am looking forward to seeing more of your shows!
David thank you so much! I just try to emulate the design sense of greats in the history of tiki... Bob and Leroy, Trader Vic, Donn Beach.
@@BreezewayCocktailHour Easier said than done, I appreciate your humility but it takes a lot of talent to put together a space like the Breezeway!!! Also you are a bad influence, since watching this video I have purchased a cool mask and a Vacation Village ashtray for my tiki bar, lol!
This looks amazing! Life long goal to create a room like this in the house haha.
The Breezeway is so awesome! I love watching your show up here in the Bay Area. I hope the Hula Girls play Forbidden Island again sometime.
Absolutely fantastic video. My favorite are the lamps. Great job 🗿
tara alexander thanks, Tara!!
Incredible space. Love your attention to detail and the stories of the items you've collected. A couple of years ago, I came across your built on tiki central, and it was what eventually inspired me to build my own tiki bar at home.
Rudy Joggerst that's great! We all get inspiration from each other with this stuff!
I'm making the back yard a tiki bar and really enjoyed seeing yours.
As we say in Australia your bar is fully sick. Amazing stuff mate. Also that round knot? I think it's called a monkeys fist.
Love the tour, great execution on your Tiki space. This is your space and you have built into it what inspires you, but I have one question. I see a lot of home Tiki bars that have some Pirate theming added and you say Pirates have no place in Tiki bars, wrong ocean. So the question is aren't most Tiki cocktails based on Caribbean drinks and wouldn't that include islands that had Pirate activity? Yo, Ho, Ho, and a bottle of rum. I have to say living in Florida Pirate items seem to be more readily available than Polynesian artifacts.
Ken Hampton yeah, I certainly get what you're saying. And I've noticed that more pirate stuff kinda happens in home bars on the east coast, but the original theming of tiki was always the Pacific Islands as per Don Beach, Trader Vic, the soldiers who came back from the war, and the musical, South Pacific. But as I've always seen people say, put what ever you like into your own space... the purists just may not totally agree. :)
What does the book cover look like leak it to me please
Love your show and the Breezeway. Would you consider doing a new tour of the Breezeway with all the changes? Can you tell me the rough dimensions of the Breezeway? Working on my own home bar and the dimensions would be helpful. Keep up the awesome work.
Yes! It's on the way. I'll be sure to include dimensions in there too.
Dude I would do anything for a video about that porthole diorama window someday. That thing is a masterpiece.
Incredible, Thanks for sharing! Aloha from "8FT Tiki" in Kansas City, MO home of Tikicat
This video was awesome. Someday I’ll have the space to create my own home tiki bar. I have a lot of the elements just need the place to put them. Love all the lamps you made!
I LOVE THE BREEZEWAY! I'm lookin forward to another Oasis. (This is Mcbiff btw)
Dude this is insane, very cool.
Very inspiring to see all you’ve done yourself. Nice job.
Super cool spike 😎👍👍👍👍👍😎
Fantastic & totally agree on layers for a tiki bar. I built one in my basement during the pandemic and it's unofficial name is Corona Cove. I'm a huge fan of Frankie's so LMK if you want to get rid of one of those chairs! How big is your tiki bar?
kosmokramer1 I think my bar is probably 25' x 12' ish?
Ha haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.....Corona Cove....
incredible!... great spot and vid
Lots of cool stuff to see the puffer fish lamps are trippy.
Very cool bar! I hope to make my own home tiki bar one day, I recently inherited some authentic Kona/Palm fiber wallpaper. It’s like a fabric kinda, but it’s made from woven tree fibers from Hawaii. I look forward to having the space for using it one day.
Awesome tour of The Breezeway! Love all the lighting you made yourself! It would be great if you did a couple videos about how you made them!
Wow! I didn't realize you had a full room! I thought it was just a tiki bar set basically.
Super rad tour! Thank you for all your work, really inspiring to a noob tiki dreamer
Really amazing! Thanks for the tour and greetings from frozen Finland!
Thank you for the tour. My mother had that giant parasol. I need to find those flame light bulbs
I thought I had a pretty nice home tiki bar...(and I honestly do) but I am quite jealous of the Breezeway and many of it’s fantastic components.
SlacksFerret thanks! Yeah, yours is pretty incredible as well!
Spiderwall mug! 🙌🏻🔥
Blake Grigorian oh wow 🤯
Loved this! Great presentation.
Any advice on lighting? Built my cabana last year and are now outfitting it with lighting. I know lighting well for indoors, but tiki lighting is a whole different ballgame. Just wondering if you found a sweetspot (watts, type of light or bulb, colors, etc) or even if you had a suggestion for lighting inside of a float. Love this bar!
9985cjham thanks! I tend to think that traditional colored incandescent bulbs are better than LED or modern colored lights… they have a more traditional glow to them. If you can't find a fish flute with a hole in it, I would recommend creating some kind of light that can shine into the float from the outside. When the floats get dusty, the light bounces around in them really nicely.
My goal since moving to Florida 4 years ago...I'm an antique dealer, so thrifting and picking is my jam...so much rattan, so little time, tiki time...oh and more is more...!
As someone who lives in Ohio... you are correct about the need for great tiki bars in Ohio (though we are lucky enough to have a couple of them). Hope to see you and the rest of the Hula Girls performing at one of them in the near future! (PS: I'm trying to convince people that Ohio is a lost Hawaiian island that became an "inland" instead of an island and should be more properly spelled as O'hio -- whaddya think??)
Don The Idea Guy hahaha... super funny!
Awesome! Have to ask as I am building my cabana now-do you have to turn on each of those lights individually or do you have them wired together some how? Going to hang a bunch but not sure how to manage the power.
9985cjham they are all on one switch that's in my kitchen.
Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful.
woah! I didnt recognize you with the beard!
Can you tell me what you use for tapa cloth when you make lamps?
thanks!
blitzen mike hahhaha... quarantine does weird things to man. 🧔🏻 for lamps, I use actual tapa cloth. I usually find it at estate sales or on craigslist. Just kinda always need to have your eyes open for it, and buy it when you see it (if the price is right.)
amazing!
Gracias - very cool sweetie!
Simply amazing
Mint has taken over our backyard tiki bar!
where do you find the Tapa cloths for the lights, so cool!
Harrison Long eBay is a good place to start… Also, try craigslist and estate sales.
Home bar goals. 👍🌺🍹🗿
You inspired me to purchase a tiki cocktail book.
Your place is amazing, just started watching your channel, very inspiring build. Super jealous :)
AWESOME.
Great video!
I love your polo shirt, where can i buy that?
thanks! It is vintage.
Amazing.
Gotta say: Full beard is a better look than the chin-spike. Also, great space. let me know when you're planning your own estate sale. ;-)
Every time he said vintage, we drink
How are you running all the electric stuff?
tanner sowa my electrician was disgusted when he saw how I was doing it. Let's just say that the proper way is to run multiple junction boxes up in the ceiling. At the very least, use power strips with circuit breakers in them.
I LIKE YOUR BAR . I GOT INSPIRED TO MAKE MY TIKI BAR AFTER BAHOOKAS. TIKI LIFE 4EVER
I think that half wall in your bar is of a Japanese style of Bamboo fence, it is very old style.
Nice shirt!
Tell me about that shirt. I like that shirt.
theghostly7 thanks! yeah, I don't know.... just another vintage aloha shirt from my collection... 🤷🏻♂️
@@BreezewayCocktailHour really cool colors on that one.
Oh, the story I could tell you about the Bahooka and the owner when it closed.
Really?
@@BreezewayCocktailHour Apparently, the reason for his closing was "politically motivated".
The Duke was a Shriner, hence the hat's connection to Tiki.
the only thing I would do is put a walk-in cooler
You could probably fix your old rotten tiki with epoxy laminating resin.
Dark. Mysterious. Cargo Cult.