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OK, as I was searching around through eBay I stumbled across this auction
http://cgi.eBay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=ADME:B:EOIBSAA:US:11&Item=5031320051
I thought to myself that this was a pretty cool looking puffer fish lamp, bigger than the one I made myself, and what a neat story to be able to tell while drinking Mai Tais with my friends. My other thought was maybe I would learn some history of a lost tiki bar.
I asked the lady after I won if she could tell me the name of the bar from which it came out of. She told me it was the Kon Tiki in Galveston TX. Hmmmm...so I start checking around and all I come up with is this http://garzaskontiki.com/
Now this place looks like they would not have any sort of tiki anything hanging up in the place-very glitzy and high tech. looking in the photos.
So I write her back and tell her what I found here is her return email:
yes, this is the same bar, it used to be in another location on Galveston Island back in 1976 from which the lamp came, it was called the Kon tiki and in fact it was a gay bar. The current Kon tiki, the glitzy gay bar you located is it! years ago they were in another location on the island a different owner and it was not glitzy the decor was different..... thanks, vickie..
Could there have been an earlier bar that might have had tiki decor?
Maybe I'll have to wait for the ghost to appear and ask him! he he he
whoooooooooo (spooky music in the background)
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