Post #12822 by johntiki on Tue, Nov 5, 2002 8:56 AM

I initially got interested in the whole retro-bar thing by collecting cocktail shakers and by reading a book by Stephen Visakay called Vintage Bar Ware...I probably have accumulated about 50 shakers as well as countless related barware items. I really liked the glass shakers with the screen printed graphics and was involved in many a bidding war on Ebay for ones I wanted. Before I moved (last February) I started doing my bar with a Polynesian theme, I started buying tiki mugs and covering the walls with bamboo and matting but I didn’t get too carried away because it would either have to come down or be packed up and moved. I must have spent 2 weeks wrapping and boxing all the barware I already had. I did my new bar, at the new house completely tiki and have relegated the shakers/glasses/seltzer bottles/Mr. Bartender items/etc. to a display case in my living room. Recently when I wanted to unload some cocktail shakers to support my tiki habit, I found the bottom had fallen out of the vintage barware market and I wasn't willing to give the stuff away. I guess I'll just have to hold on to this stuff until the market improves or my grandchildren decide to sell the stuff at a yard sale when I'm dead and gone...don’t get me wrong I still love the vintage stuff but I don’t have the space to have two bars like Laney
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