Post #199148 by tikicar on Sun, Nov 20, 2005 3:44 PM

Hey Sabu, I sent my brother this thread. He lives in Daytona. He had told me the hotel was getting some remodeling because of the Hurricane damage last year. I had told him to keep an eye out to see if they were getting rid of stuff. He figured he would stop in and see if they were selling anything else after reading this thread. Anyway here is the letter he sent me.

I went over to the hotel this morning and talked to the General Manager. Real nice guy but at first I had trouble getting him to believe that the door handles HAD been sold and I was asking if other stuff was for sale. He didnt know they were gone and thought they were in the back room during the remodel or out for polishing. He called one of the owners or at least someone higher than him right away and they talked a while. Then he asked if I could show him the site with the handles and I did on his office computer. He printed it all out and asked if i knew how to find out who the seller was. I told him I would ask if you could find out through the forum or if you knew the buyers ebay name we could search it that way and find the seller.
He showed me around the place and what they are doing. They are not getting rid of the old stuff, they are just freshing up everything. It has new black aluminum frame modern doors but that might be hurricane code now. The "Naked Lady" chairs had the seat cover redone but they are still in the lobby. The wall carvings are supposed to be in the store room. The Traders lounge is having bamboo door frames done and just cleaning up everything.(they were working today). The open beam ceilings will stay but he said they were goung to cover the spun fiberglass ceiling tiles but decided not to when they got the price. The Big Tiki head above the bar is supposed to be in the store room and the Witco Naked Lady chairs on each side of the entrance door will stay. After seeing the sellers name on the thread, He said it is the restaurant manager and he is already working to get the items back. He had one other item too. It is a cool 6x18" brass plate with a tiki relief, maybe was a door push panel. The GM said the hotel is still owned by the family that built it in 66-67 and want to keep it in the family and dont want things going missing. There was a cool custom remodeling sign with a Tiki wearing a construction hat and I told him to save it for me if possible. He picked it up and said "take it now".

So I guess the guy will be getting a hold of you to get them back to their rightful place.