Fantastico! Casa Bonita: America's Most Beloved Restaurant
About this Event
✦ About the Talk ✦
Fantastico! Casa Bonita: America's Most Beloved Restaurant
The Architecture of Escapism explores how a pink palace in a Denver shopping center became one of Colorado’s most unforgettable architectural and cultural landmarks, transforming dining into immersive entertainment. This presentation looks beyond the kitsch to examine Casa Bonita as a serious example of experiential design, roadside fantasy, themed architecture, and the preservation of popular places that helped shape American memory.
Social hour and specialty tiki cocktails start at 6pm with our feature talk starting at 7pm sharp and presented by Denver local and tiki-aficionado Mike Skinner.
✦ About the Speaker✦
Mike Skinner is a Professional Engineer living in Denver, but his passion is Polynesian
Pop architecture. In 2005 he produced the booklet A Tiki Tour of Southern California documenting tiki inspired apartment buildings around Los Angeles. He is a frequent guest speaker at tiki conventions across the country and in 2011produced a book entitled Tiki Architecture: The Fantasy World of Polynesian Pop Culture Design. Mike maintains the Crusoe Society facebook page and his personal tiki bar “The Wreck of the Kona Luanii” recreated a salvaged shipwreck in his Basement.
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