Post #145301 by johntiki on Mon, Mar 7, 2005 8:51 PM

Finally got around to taking some pics of my mugs...and unlike the others who have posted I have posted little tidbits about where I got certain mugs...

From left to right: Shag mug from TIki Farm (bought at Wacko in L.A. on a trip to CA), Steve Crane Ku, Hoffman Kahiki (traded w/Hale Tiki - I love this mug!), 3 Harvey's, Luau Hut and Treasure Craft Moai (probably my greatest Goodwill find ever - not a mug but I love that thing!)

Left to right: Mt. Fuji Inn Moai, Don Ho glass (Goodwill find), unmarked possibly home-made mug (parents flea market find), Polynesian Village glass (owned since I went to Disney World as a kid), Kahlua Hut, (hiding behind the TV swizzles) Orchids of Hawaii as pictured on pg. 88 of Tiki Quest (bought at antique store in Easton MD), TV coconut (parents brought back from CA), Harvey's hula girl (first mug I found locally), TV grenadine bottle, Westwood, TV shaker.

Left to right: Hawaiian Village handled mug, much beloved Hawaiian Room at the Emerson Hotel OMC Aztec head and OMC Moai (w/swizzle and matchbook), Pub Tiki mug (w/swizzle and matchbook) - traded to TC member and is probably my favorite of all my mugs - thanks Erika!, Luau Hut petroglyphs mug, Tiki Bob, Aku Aku Moai w/lid, hiding behind the koa pineapple is my Shecky from Munktiki! Oh, Cruisin' w/Ron was an ad that ran in Ocean City MD for a now defunct surf shop called B.B. Bombers in 1982. I cut it out and framed it and have held onto it ever since!

Left to right: Kon Tiki Ports mug (thanks Tiki Matt), Moai statue and Moai salt shaker, Hawaiian Inn "paddlesucker", Hawaiian Room @ Emerson Hotel skull mug (Christmas present from my parents - found at a local antique store) weird thing is that it says clearly on the bottom - Made Exclusively for Trader Vic's, hiding behind the skull is the OMC Jade East Buddah mug (not a tiki bar but it had its own custom mugs and was only 30 minutes from home - bought off Ebay, picked up locally and found out about others locally who were into tiki - met all my MD/DC/VA tiki ohana thanks to this mug, Mark Thomas Outrigger mug, Coco Joes tiki

Left to right: Mainlander mug w/a horrid re-paint, The Tikis Moai Mug, Trader Dick's Moai Mug, OMC Kowloon mug, PMP mug, Hawaii Kai skull mug (bought by my parents at a flea market for $2.00), OMC Stockton Islander black peanut mug, Pisco Capel decanter (went through too much trouble to locate one of these, heard that the stuff doesn't taste very good, bottle will remained sealed), Goodwill find lonely pineapple shaker.

Tiki Farm Trader Vic's Suffering Bastard, Tonga Room barrel/mask mug, Huke Lau Sun God mug, signature Kowloon "potato-bug" mug, Mr. Bali Hai (found at a local antique store!), orange Luau Hut hula girl mug made by Orchids of Hawaii (another fantastic Goodwill find!), X-eyes mug from Huki Lau in LA, parrot mug from the Hawaiian Cottage (bought by parents at flea market), Stockton Islander smiling native cup and hiding in the corner is my first tiki mug - it's a cracked Orchids of Hawaii Ku mug that I got off Ebay for $.75 (I don't know why I bought a broken mug but the price was too good to pass up!

When I first started collecting mugs my goal was to have enough to fill the 12' shelf behind the bar and now I realize that I've got mugs stashed all over the house - I've got mugs in my display cabinet which used to be exclusively for my cocktail shakers, I've got this cubby hole/display area at the bottom of the basement steps stacked 3 rows high w/mugs, I've got the shelves in the back room in the basement full of mugs, there are even mugs with no where to go at the moment so they're chilling on top of the bar, I've even got a couple thrift store found coconut mugs sitting on my workbench in the garage...as you can see, this collecting thing gets out of control real easy! :)