Post #164087 by 8FT Tiki on Mon, Jun 6, 2005 9:24 PM

Here's a new addition to the yard. I bet some of you have one of these too. I always liked those sign posts like they had on MAS*H. So I got to thinking about what to put on one and at first I was going to put Hololulu, Fiji, New Zealand etc. Then Mrs.8FT suggested we use the names of classic tiki bars. SO I was out hitting a few yard sales and found this guy selling some really long clothes hanger poles. He had used them in his childrens clothing resale shop and he had recently retired and closed the shop. Then I found another sale which had a bunch of new cedar roof shingles. I paid a total of $1.50 and got the whole family to help paint and prepare the signs. I thought it would look better if we used the actual logos or "fonts" of the bar names instead of just using block letters. We used mapquest to find the mileage from our address to each tiki location. Then as a topper, I got out an Orchids of Hawaii broken mug I received in the mail awhile back.
Then I assembled it and got this:

(Mr. 8FT tiki shown actual size)