This groovy clock based on the traditional Maori Tiki design may just keep you from missing last call.

5 inches wide x 8 inches tall.

$149.00, approximately $110 US.

See the Black Tiki Tock Clock at Eon | Via Ooh! Shiny!

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Mike from Telstar Eectronics, the only company authorized to still sell new Philco Predicta-styled televisions, recently created a custom tiki-inspired cabinet for a “Pedistal” model TV. It ended up coming out so well, the company has made a couple of more as attentioin-getters at trade shows.

Discuss and see more photots at Tiki Central | Visit the Official Predicta TV website

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These odd Disney-character tikis from Disney Shopping aren’t my cup of tea, but at 75% off, they certainly are a good value!

Made to stay in the outdoors, styles include Mickey, Donald, and Goofy and range from 9 to 12 inches tall.

Regularly $35, now $8.99.

The Disney Shopping website also has desk accessories in the same style as well as some bedding.

Buy Disney Tikis at Disney Shopping

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The Los Angles Gridskipper website has a nice feature on L.A.-area tiki bars with an integrated Google map so you can actually find them.

Find L.A. Tiki Bars at Gridskipper

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The companion decanter to tiki artist Flounder’s previously released Tron the Beachcomber and Rader Vic tiki mugs is now available exclusively through the Tiki Farm website.

The Intergalactic Island Hopper stands 12 inches tall and holds 18 ounces of your favorite rocket fuel.

Buy the Intergalactic Island Hopper decanter at Tiki Farm

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Cinematographer and author Sven Kirsten literally wrote the book on tiki in 2000 with the release of The Book of Tiki, its publication was largely responsible for the resurgence of the tiki culture in North America.

Now, his second book, Tiki Modern, has been published by Taschen, and it’s a beauty. Picking up up where The Book of Tiki leaves off, Tiki Modern showcases how the modernist movement adopted the primitive ethic in the late ’50s and ’60s in the fields of art, architecture, and interior design. At 336 pages, most with full color photos, this book is a must-have.

$39.99, only $26.39 at Amazon.com

Buy Tiki Modern at Amazon.com

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I picked up a used DVD box set of Pee Wee’s Playhouse at a local used record store (Vinyl Fever in Tampa — Florida folks should check it out) on a lark and was blown away by how many tiki references there were on the show. Here, right smack dab in the tiki-hating 1980s, Paul Rubens brings out his love for mid-century pop culture and is perhaps responsible for planting a seed in a generation that would bring back the lounge scene a decade later.

Right off the bat, the show’s opening theme song pays homage to Martin Denny’s “Quiet Village” as the camera slowly pans through the jungle up to the playhouse. Once inside, we find not one, but two tikis among the retro-kitch decor. Then, in the episode “Luau for Two,” Pee Wee throws a luau for his friend Miss Yvonne.

The box sets of the show are selling for next to nothing ($24.99 new, around $19 used), so it’s affordable even for the mildly curious to check out.

Pick up Pee-Wee’s Playhouse Vol. 1 at Amazon.com

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