Post #161632 by johntiki on Wed, May 25, 2005 9:04 PM

joefla70 I like the way you think! I too collect, or collected, both cocktail shakers and radios. That Hawkes shaker is a beaut! I've been collecting cocktail shakers on and off for 10 years now and I don't have any as nice as that! I mainly buy the 50's era glass shakers with the screen-printed graphics and the metal lids. One of these days I'm hoping to find a deco skyscraper shaker for a steal but it has yet to happen! Oh the stories I could recount about my cocktail shaker conquests and discoveries... they used to give me the same thrill tiki mugs do today but the lack of any real art deco or distinctive modern pieces in the wild kinda limited my collection and eventually my interest. The same with the radios – one man only needs so many brown and black plastic radios – I never came across any brightly colored catalin or bakelite Fada’s and with the prices they were selling for I wouldn’t have been able to afford one anyway! But this is Tiki Central not Shaker/Radio Central so I'll keep those stories to myself.

Now that I've strayed completely off base and interrupted a topic that was doing well without my input, I guess I’ll just answer the question; I'm a video editor for the local ABC affiliate here in Baltimore.