{"id":421432,"date":"2023-12-01T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T16:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pmcgdev.com\/psynecoblog\/?p=421432"},"modified":"2023-11-07T21:35:49","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T04:35:49","slug":"dancers-remember-zombie-hut-south-sacramentos-now-shuttered-tiki-nightclub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pmcgdev.com\/psynecoblog\/2023\/12\/01\/dancers-remember-zombie-hut-south-sacramentos-now-shuttered-tiki-nightclub\/","title":{"rendered":"Dancers Remember Zombie Hut, South Sacramento\u2019s Now-Shuttered Tiki Nightclub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There used to be a Polynesian-themed restaurant and nightclub in South Sacramento called the Zombie Hut, part of the Tiki-culture craze that swept the country in the 1950s and \u201960s. For some Pacific Island immigrants, this place offered an opportunity to help make a new life in America. Eighty-two-year-old Aiona Fakalata-Teu is a matriarch of the Tongan community in South Sacramento and the Meadowview neighborhood. She arrived in the United States 56 years ago&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.capradio.org\/news\/the-view-from-here\/making-meadowview\/2019\/10\/16\/dancers-remember-zombie-hut-south-sacramentos-now-shuttered-tiki-nightclub\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>read more &gt;<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/psyne.co\/products\/zombie-hut-1945-vintage-mens-t-shirt\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There used to be a Polynesian-themed restaurant and nightclub in South Sacramento called the Zombie Hut, part of the Tiki-culture craze that swept the country in the 1950s and \u201960s. For some Pacific Island immigrants, this place offered an opportunity to help make a new life in America. Eighty-two-year-old Aiona Fakalata-Teu is a matriarch of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":421433,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":19,"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8792,15979,9173,8872,8873,10954,10955,10761,51233,45701,10768,62046,50298,10959,26212,10960,10962,18346,62047,62048,62049],"class_list":["post-421432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bloggage","tag-1940s","tag-15979","tag-california","tag-cocktails","tag-dive-bar","tag-exotic","tag-exotica","tag-hawaiian","tag-hula-dancer","tag-hula-girl","tag-polynesian","tag-polynesian-dancer","tag-sacramento","tag-tiki","tag-tiki-bar","tag-tiki-culture","tag-tropical","tag-zombie","tag-zombie-cocktail","tag-zombie-hut","tag-zombies-on-broadway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmcgdev.com\/psynecoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmcgdev.com\/psynecoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmcgdev.com\/psynecoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmcgdev.com\/psynecoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmcgdev.com\/psynecoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pmcgdev.com\/psynecoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmcgdev.com\/psynecoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmcgdev.com\/psynecoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmcgdev.com\/psynecoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmcgdev.com\/psynecoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}