Post #163827 by aquarj on Sun, Jun 5, 2005 8:26 PM

Hi Kimo -
Thanks for joining and telling us some stories. Here's some more questions for starters!

Who did the design - was that Sam (and you or others in the family)? One thing interesting about the HIP stuff is that there's some traditional designs, and then a bunch of playful designs that look like they came from someone just having fun. Like these three below.

Here on TikiCentral, we've had several discussion threads about the lava tiki makers like HIP and CocoJoe. Here's a link to one that went into some detail with some people showing photos from their collections. Glad you started a thread to tell us more about HIP, so here's a question I had on that other discussion. Do you know what this place (storefront photo below) was in Waiahole, and do the tikis outside have any relation to the similar tikis that HIP made?

Have you heard of a movie called Bikini A Go Go? This tiki pendant below has a starring role. Unfortunately it's a porn movie.

While we're on that subject, HIP did some of the most voluptuous hula girls of any of the brands (like the one below). Was there a human model for these girls, or did the sculptor just make them up?

Is Sam still alive and well? Also, I bet people would like to learn more about the fire that hit the business, as the legend goes.

Hope that's not too many questions. Thanks for visiting us, and hope you stay awhile.

-Randy