Post #1368 by miehana_tiki on Thu, May 9, 2002 5:49 PM

I started collecting postcards of polynesian pop establishments many years ago. I thought it was cool to step back in time and see the places that the mugs in my collection were coming from, as most of them no longer exist.

Well, I went to a postcard collectors show last weekend and scored 27 new cards for about $40. They were a great find, but it took a lot of work to dig them up. I had to look through individual states broken down into categories (Restaurants, Hotels/Motels, etc.) to find them. Sometimes I found what what I was looking for, other times it was just dump luck to stumble across a new card.

Some of my new cards from show included:

The Tonga Room (San Francisco, CA)
Trader Vics interior & exterior cards (Scottsdale, AZ)
Samoan Village Hotel (Phoenix, AZ)
several cards from Shelter Island (San Diego)
1962 Seattle World's Fair Hawaiian Pavillion (sponsored by Dole)
1964 New York World's Fair Polynesian Restaurant
Davy Jones Locker (Waikiki, HI)
Tiki Kai (Denver, CO)
Floridaland dolphin show with a stage full of tikis

Poly Pop postcards are a great collectable because they are still inexpensive (except, of course, on eBay). Just thought I would pass along my great find with all of you.