Post #154214 by joefla70 on Thu, Apr 21, 2005 10:55 AM

From reading Silverline's post, it occured to me that we should have a thread for people to post stories and pictures about their tiki family heirlooms. I have a couple of tiki masks that my dad brought home from Hawaii when he was stationed there in the army in the 1950s. I remember the masks being displayed on the wall of our patio when I was growing up. I even have a picture of me at age 5 with one of the tiki masks in the background. Later, when my parents redecorated the patio, the masks were put on a shelf behind the bar and were forgotten. A few years ago, I looked for the masks and gladly inherited them. (Well, that's not ENTIRELY true, unless you substitute the word "pilfer" for "inherit.") In any event, I'm sure many other TCers have stories just like Silverline's, or they still have the family tikis that they grew up with. It makes it more special to me that these tiki items have a family history.

Here are some pictures of my family heirlooms:

[ Edited by: joefla70 on 2005-04-21 11:00 ]