Post #181559 by Swanky on Wed, Aug 24, 2005 7:25 AM

You take it as you will.

It's not uncommon for the ephemera of your business to dissappear. When I asked the Mai Kai family (the business is still owned and run by the original family, including the general manager) if they had any old stuff, the answer was 'no'. As they said, when they get a new shipment of postcards, they are trying like hell to get rid of them all. They didn't think about keeping them or any of it.

I did get to look at the scrap books of the Mai Kai which they have and what was in them was not what you and I would drool over. They were mostly business related articles in the paper, etc. There was nothing for the collector, more for the historian.

From what I understand of the Kahiki, the daughter became somewhat distant from her father due to divorce and much of what he was and did, is part of her early childhood memory. She "worked" at the Kahiki as a kid. One of her jobs was marking out the face of the lady on the "People you are likely to meet at the Kahiki" hand out that refused to give her permission to print her picture.