Post #146492 by bigbrotiki on 03/13/2005

On 2005-03-10 07:32, Johnny Dollar wrote:
got this postcard last weekend for a buck at a local flea market.

"Hawaiian Enchantment," postmarked 1951.

interesting, fact, the tiki in the background is the same as in the middle of the second postcard page in Tiki Quest, but it's a different wahine.

...and filslash wrote:

"It's also the same tiki (on Maui) as in the Boyd Rice article, and pictured on the back of some denny cd... Current whereabouts unknown"

...AND what makes this Tiki design even MORE interesting is that two of them were flanking the entrance to the ORIGINAL Trader Vic's in Oakland (BOT p.82). It proves that the early Trader Vic's decor, like the Tahitian/Marquesan posts were imported from Hawaii and Tahiti, because the American Tiki carving tradition had not yet formed. I wonder if we ever will find out who the carver of the these sleek, very modern Tikis was. He must have worked in Hawaii...