Post #13170 by bigbrotiki on Fri, Nov 8, 2002 12:18 PM

Excellent work guys, true urban archeology: Unearth the old documents, research and photograph what's left, and put the pieces of the puzzle together. That is how the BOT came about. Look at the opening credits page, a lot of the urb. archs mentioned there have similar matchbook/postcard folders and have, like me, patiently waded through tons of crap in papershows all over California. Bosko has one of the best collections in all genres, including swizzle sticks. The amazing thing is that there is always one image you have not seen before.

The hard stuff to find is off course A.) images with Tikis, B.) images with people.

Note that there are over 20 Trader Vic's interior postcards out there, but only 3 have people in them. The rest starts looking all the same when put in a row. The presence of 50s/60s American natives really gives these that extra kick.

Also, there are some interiors that we are dying to find out about, and that unfortunately dissappoint, like Tiki Bob's (see Mike's Tiki Room Gallery), which I left out of the BOT purposely. Some things are better imagined, and left a mystery.

I was really glad to finally see a picture of the Islander, a Nor Cal power place, home of such excellent mugs!

And about Minnie's in Modesto: It has to my mind THE best collection of black velvet nude paintings (not Leeteg, better).
(Hope they are still all there..?)

Sabu, have you discovered the Kala Kai Apts. yet?

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki on 2002-11-08 12:24 ]