which was very active from 1995 to 2003, and sort of half-active from 2003 to 2007.
Now it is gone.
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Tiki Road Trip in 2003 - the second edition of which (2007) is available NOW.
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Salt Lake City, UtahFull review and history of Burt's Tiki Bar
available in Tiki Road Trip
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November, 1999
Well, you win a few and you lose a few. I was in Salt Lake City on Halloween, which also happened to be a Sunday. SLC is not exactly a party town, and let’s just say that certain religious inclinations tend to make Halloween a bit less of a party in SLC than it is in most of the other towns across the nation. These same inclinations also tend to make SLC a pretty dull place on a Sunday. So one could imagine that being on tour with a great band (the oft-mentioned Royal Crown Revue) on Halloween would be a lot of fun, but to have that town be SLC on a Sunday is just about the worst possible way to spoil this potentially fun scenario.
Fortunately, the owners of the club that RCR were playing at were really nice, and when I mentioned I wanted to check out a Tiki Bar between sound check and show time, they forked over their car keys and let me use their Explorer to explore the only Tiki Bar in SLC.
I persuaded a member of RCR to accompany me, and we rolled off in search of Burt’s Tiki Bar.
We found it.
The first thing we encountered was a reminder that because of some retarded law, you have to be a member of a club to drink in a bar in Salt Lake City. So the bartender made us sign in as guests of some random derelict (who was evidently a club member), and who didn’t even look up at us when he was informed that we were his honorable guests.
And then...?
Sorry, bud, you've got to read Tiki Road Trip for the rest.
Adam writes: I love your site. I've always been interested in tiki culture and I'm just now getting into it a bit more thanks to the internet. When I was just getting into rockabilly I used to drive by it and I thought it looked so cool and like the best place for a rockabilly show. When I was 18 my band played there so I got in with no problem. I remember just looking around the place while we were tuning up and trying to figure it out. If your're ever in Salt lake again check out the Mayan restaurant it's new and could use some more tikis but It's kinda got that tiki atmosphere going with a modern twist.
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This has nothing to do with Tiki Bars, but I thought this was pretty cool! It's the sign outside of a pool hall in SLC, right near Club Liquid, where we did a show on Halloween.