Post #135200 by Humuhumu on Wed, Jan 12, 2005 5:24 PM

One of the glaring omissions in Critiki is Harvey's Lake Tahoe... I haven't put it in there yet because of the life of me, I haven't been able to figure out what precisely was tiki about the place. I see the Sneaky Tiki mug and the bucket mug all over the damned place, but no mention of them actually coming from a tiki establishment within the Casino... were these mugs just a bandwagon idea for a souvenir (a la the "Andersen's Pea Soup" tiki mug)? Or was there a Polynesian lounge in there at some point? If so, what was it called? The "Sneaky Tiki?" Or was that the name of a drink? Or was that just something slapped on the side of that mug for the heck of it? (The bucket mug just says "Harvey's Lake Tahoe" if I remember correctly.)

I see those two mugs all the damned time in antique malls... it seems bizarre to me that there should be so many of those mugs that made it out there, and yet so little information about their genesis. I've searched TC and I find plenty of discussion of the mugs, but none about the place they came from. I'm sure it's one of those things that about a hundred of you out there know all about and can kindly fill me in on. :)