Post #142228 by tikicar on Sun, Feb 20, 2005 3:56 PM

Hi Sven; The Tiki Bar like in your book and the large backed chair (my mom always called it the naked lady chair were the pieces my parents bought new. They also had some masks and spears with tear dropped shaped points on the ends. There was a big picture like my globe picture with a orange backround with a wood outrigger style canoe on it. (My mom probably yard saled those items in the 70s.) These items were purchased at Youngs Furniture in York Pa. They always sold the more modern and unusual furniture. The store is still there with the big letters on it. It was in town on a corner. They had a few show windows. The church my dad went to was just down the street. He said he saw it on a Sunday morning and went back that week and bought it. My parents would have been 25 or 26 years old. The furniture was in there den in the house they had then. Then we moved in 1971. It was in the living room then. We also had a tiger skined rug with a head on it with its mouth open with plastic teeth and tounge. His head unzipped to clean the rug. Also a 60s single black fur type material chair. The ones that are made out of one piece that goes up high on the back down almost to the ground at your butt then up at your legs. Has the sliding pillow on the back. I still have this couch. That was the only piece my dad kept when they moved to florida for a few years before divorcing. Anyway my mom redecorated to an oriental them in the mid 70s. The bar, stools, chair and outrigger piece went into my dads office at his car lot. In 1980 he sold the car lot and moved to Florida. The furniture stayed at the office. The guy who bought the lot had it untill last year when my dad finally convinced him to sell it to me. He had it in storage. He was using the bar as a shelf in the store room and had it to the wall backwards. He had recovered it with tan velour. I redid it when I got it back. The large chair originally had a orange cushion made out of a real rough burlap type of material. My dad started going to Daytona Beach in 1967 to see the car races. It was the bars of the time there and hotels that inspired him I think to have his own tiki bar. Funny thing is neither of my parents were drinkers. The other pieces I have gathered from Antique shops within 30 + miles of my home. It is Very hard to find around here. Mostly a farming and industrial area so not alot of wild taste back in the day. I am sure most of it came from Youngs.