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B bungy Member Joined: Dec 17, 2005 Posts: 77	B bungy Posted posted on Fri, Jan 6, 2006 4:33 PM Re: Pix #3... (if you know what I am talking about!! I can't find them! This is mohter polishing fish floats, and i imagine it was for a photo op.. because when we were really working we didn't look this nice! We were always polishing fish floats! This must have been a shipment of floats up from Mexico. The "Crates" were made of little tree branches, and then the floats were packed with straw. How ever did they last the truck ride?! The new floats from Mexico were hand blown and usually brown or white. The used floats that were found on the beaches were from Japan, and were red, green, blue. Sometimes when you actually found afloat up in Oregon, or Northern Ca.. they woudl have water and sand in them! From thew pressure of the storms at sea! Daddy used those crates for decorating luaus! When we were in Disneyland, we were ordering hand carved masks from Patsquaro.. and were paying about $3.00 for card board cartons for them to be shipped in. My cousin and I went down their and found out that we could get the baskets that are now sold as laundry baskets for 50cents a piece.. so that was how we got them shipped after that! \After we were in Disneyland,Daddy started a shop on 2-5 acres of land right on Beach Blvd, in Midway City. He made it into a tropical paradise, complete with watrefalls, tikis, bamboo stands, and much more. He even had a small stand of bamboo that he put little squares around when the shoots were small.. and ended up with square bamboo! Inside the shop, which was called Island Trade store.. was a fairyland of hand made tropical decorations. One time he got an order for about 60 lamps made from bamboo, for a big restaurant in Alska! We all worked on those!! This shop is where he created his TIKI workshop which was a back field. The county trucks would bring him any date palms they'd cut down.. and he ordered "featherstone" from Nevada. One of those peices of featherstone was the pix of him carving a stone tiki. I thought he'd really gone uptown hen he got a chain saw, and started outlining the tikis! The grandkids (including Bamboo Ben!) would climb all over the logs, and half done tikis! It wa sa great jungle! The guys who started Pier One Imports, came by and bought a lot of stuff for their very first store! They and Daddy spent a lot of time together, and I think Daddy helped them decorate that store.. See ya soon! Auntie Bungy PS. I get to fly in a little 2 passenger plane all over the county tomorrow! Hope the weather holds!

Re: Pix #3... (if you know what I am talking about!! I can't find them!
This is mohter polishing fish floats, and i imagine it was for a photo op.. because when we were really working we didn't look this nice! We were always polishing fish floats! This must have been a shipment of floats up from Mexico. The "Crates" were made of little tree branches, and then the floats were packed with straw. How ever
did they last the truck ride?! The new floats from Mexico were hand blown and usually brown or white. The used floats that were found on the beaches were from Japan, and were red, green, blue. Sometimes when you actually found afloat up in Oregon, or Northern Ca.. they woudl have water and sand in them! From thew pressure of the storms at sea! Daddy used those crates for decorating luaus!
When we were in Disneyland, we were ordering hand carved masks from Patsquaro.. and were paying about $3.00 for card board cartons for them to be shipped in. My cousin and I went down their and found out that we could get the baskets that are now sold as laundry baskets for 50cents a piece.. so that was how we got them shipped after that! \After we were in Disneyland,Daddy started a shop on 2-5 acres of land right on Beach Blvd, in Midway City. He made it into a tropical paradise, complete with watrefalls, tikis, bamboo stands, and much more. He even had a small stand of bamboo that he put little squares around when the shoots were small.. and ended up with square bamboo!
Inside the shop, which was called Island Trade store.. was a fairyland of hand made tropical decorations.
One time he got an order for about 60 lamps made from bamboo, for a big restaurant in Alska! We all worked on those!!
This shop is where he created his TIKI workshop which was a back field. The county trucks would bring him any date palms they'd cut down.. and he ordered "featherstone" from Nevada. One of those peices of featherstone was the pix of him carving a stone tiki. I thought he'd really gone uptown hen he got a chain saw, and started outlining the tikis! The grandkids (including Bamboo Ben!) would climb all over the logs, and half done tikis! It wa sa great jungle!
The guys who started Pier One Imports, came by and bought a lot of stuff for their very first store! They and Daddy spent a lot of time together, and I think Daddy helped them decorate that store..
See ya soon! Auntie Bungy
PS. I get to fly in a little 2 passenger plane all over the county tomorrow! Hope the weather holds!

Post #206091 by bungy on Fri, Jan 6, 2006 4:33 PM