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1950s Tiki Culture / Exotica Documentary (“The Air Conditioned Eden”) (Part 1)

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U.K tv documentary looking at the explosion of “Tiki Culture” & Exotica in 1950s American pop culture. It contains a short segment on Martin Denny & Exotica music. It also looks at how this style influenced arts, design, leisure, architecture etc, as well as a look inside a huge Tiki theme park built near Los Angeles in the 1980s. This was aired circa 1999 as part of Channel 4’s “Without Walls” series.