Post #208176 by Sabu The Coconut Boy on Tue, Jan 17, 2006 12:15 PM

On Sunday I went to the monthly swapmeet in Long Beach. The swapmeet is large, but instead of trying to see it all - scanning for mugs, I decided to take it slow. I wasn't on any schedule, so I made a point to stop at every booth with postcards or photos and search through them diligently. At the end of 5 hours, I had only covered about a third of the Swapmeet, but I had these good finds:

:up: The Royal Hawaiian in Baker. (see this thread:)
http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=14838&forum=2&hilite=royal%20hawaiian

:up: Tony's On The Pier, Redondo Beach, CA. Still a great place to get a Mai Tai in the Crow's Nest, beneath the giant fish-float lamps.

:up: Vintage Hawaiian Ku.

:up: Two duplicate postcards of the Warehouse in Marina Del Rey, which just came up in discussion on this thread.

:up: kinda weak image of the Hawaiian Punch Pavillion at Sea World San Diego. But I found some better ones too :down:

:up: Another weak image of the Aku Aku at the Stardust

:up: Vintage snapshot of a boy and his tiki. Probably Hawaii. Anyone know where?

:up: Chef's at Waikiki. Like the juxtaposition of tiki masks with the modern furniture.

:up: Sam's Seafood Giftshop, with the cool tiki mug display.

Overall, I paid a fraction of what these would have cost me on eBay. Plus I bought a fair number of rare non-tiki cards to sell on eBay myself, to re-coup my costs. I'd call it a sucessful day, although my neck is still sore from looking through all those boxes of postcards.

Sabu

[ Edited by: Sabu The Coconut Boy 2006-01-17 12:26 ]