Post #144038 by Kono on Tue, Mar 1, 2005 4:17 PM

I was on Oahu in 2003, just prior to joining TC. These pics are from one of my very first posts here. Out of 10 days there, we spent about a day and a half thrifting and antiquing while seeing the island.

King Kamehameha Coco Joe I didn't get in Hawaii. The little Coco Joe tiki and the stone tiki came from The Hunter antique store in Kailua. They were $4 or $5 each. The skinny Moai is a new item, it was $8 from Peggy's Picks on Kapahulu. The Singing Ali'is mug was $2 from Trash From the Past in Wahiawa. The Danish Modern ice bucket came from The Hunter and was about $30. The drink mug from the Hyatt Regency Waikiki came from the Goodwill in Kailua for a couple bucks.

Two ceramic blue tikis came from Goodwill, five for the pair. Behind them is an old tiki lamp from The Hunter for $75. Next to that is a $5 tiki (of the style favored by Sven and Paul Theroux) from the Aloha Swap Meet. Then some Aztec type decanter and glasses from Salvation Army.

Tiki purchased from the carver at the Aloha Festival. It was $15. I also saw his tikis in several tourist stores around Waikiki.

My lamp again. There were also plenty shops that had new stuff, like Peggy's Picks where I got the skinny moai.

You can score some goods at the thrifts, maybe filslash was out of town when I was there? But your sister will likely not want to be hitting the thrifts. She could probably find something like the tiki in the third pic around Waikiki (what island is she going to?) and she can find some things at the Aloha Swap Meet. Don't send her to Bailey's unless you're giving her ten grand to spend. That place is ungodly over-priced and actually kind of pizzed me off. They had new KC of Hawaii mugs that you could get all over the place for $7, marked $30! The wahine that worked there was very, very nice (and a real looker) and I enjoyed talking to her but she had to keep telling us how Nick Cage came in and spent $30K on shirts and nic nacs for some movie. It was like ol' Nick was John Frum and someday he'd return and shower them with treasures (ie buy their over-priced goods). Across the street is the place where I think Bong bought his furniture. If your sister goes there tell her to make sure and wait until the wahine (boss-lady) leaves and then hubby will sell you stuff at about a third of what she marked the price as. Cash only. :wink:

Every couple days I like to make a long, rambling, semi-coherent post so there ya go.