Super Cool!!!! Talk Story with Bungy Hedley.... - General Tiki

B bungy Member Joined: Dec 17, 2005 Posts: 77	B bungy Posted posted on Sat, Jan 21, 2006 7:27 AM Iaorana to Tikitony! You looked just like my dad out there in the back 40.. carving those tikis!!! Great! If your mom bought those tiki necklaces etc. at Disneyland from 1955 to 1960.. then, she got them from us!!! No one was allowed to overstep anyone elses merchandise or theme. That meant that Frontierland shops could only have cowboy/Indian stuff.. and if one shop got something anohter could'nt get it too! So, you see, it was a real scramble to get interesting enough stuff, for the tourist to shop for theri souvenirs at your shop, instead of next door. It was always a mystery to me how my dad went from being a Beachcomber.. to being super-merchandiser.. and business man! My cousin, Billie Lou, who is with out a doubt the dearest person on earth!!, was the first manager, then, she taught me book keeping etc., and I took over. I did all the taxes city, county, state, and fed., my dad's personal income tax, bought the merchandise, hired up to 16 girls during the summer months, did all payables and receivables, all the banking, .. and all from a little desk that was about 2 feet long, wiht a 2 file cabinet, and a plug in calculator.. OH! Where was Quicken! Besides the 2 main shops..some of the other shops we had periodically, were the German Steiff stuffed animals.. I think we were the first distributors on west coast; live turtles! The girls hated this job because each day, when they came to work, they had to throw out the occasional one that had died during the night! We slapped decals on their backs and they sold like hot cakes, along wioth various boxes of food! Potted cactus! Thatw as a mess, because we had to mail those off all the time! Some years later I lived in the middle of the Mojave Desert.. and said, "I can go into the Cactus biz again!!" A "Zoomarang", arrow thru the head, and candy guns corner! The girls didn't much like this one either! They had to wear the arrow thru the head, keep the zoomarand going in and out (it was that rolled up paper on a stick!), and shoot little candy into kids mouths! We sold a lot there! And there were more.. but , hey! my memory is just so much!!! Talk on ya later!!! Auntie Bungy

Iaorana to Tikitony! You looked just like my dad out there in the back 40.. carving those tikis!!! Great!
If your mom bought those tiki necklaces etc. at Disneyland from 1955 to 1960.. then, she got them from us!!! No one was allowed to overstep anyone elses merchandise or theme. That meant that Frontierland shops could only have cowboy/Indian stuff.. and if one shop got something anohter could'nt get it too! So, you see, it was a real scramble to get interesting enough stuff, for the tourist to shop for theri souvenirs at your shop, instead of next door.
It was always a mystery to me how my dad went from being a Beachcomber.. to being super-merchandiser.. and business man!
My cousin, Billie Lou, who is with out a doubt the dearest person on earth!!, was the first manager, then, she taught me book keeping etc., and I took over. I did all the taxes city, county, state, and fed., my dad's personal income tax, bought the merchandise, hired up to 16 girls during the summer months, did all payables and receivables, all the banking, .. and all from a little desk that was about 2 feet long, wiht a 2 file cabinet, and a plug in calculator.. OH! Where was Quicken!
Besides the 2 main shops..some of the other shops we had periodically, were the German Steiff stuffed animals.. I think we were the first distributors on west coast; live turtles! The girls hated this job because each day, when they came to work, they had to throw out the occasional one that had died during the night! We slapped decals on their backs and they sold like hot cakes, along wioth various boxes of food! Potted cactus! Thatw as a mess, because we had to mail those off all the time! Some years later I lived in the middle of the Mojave Desert.. and said, "I can go into the Cactus biz again!!" A "Zoomarang", arrow thru the head, and candy guns corner! The girls didn't much like this one either! They had to wear the arrow thru the head, keep the zoomarand going in and out (it was that rolled up paper on a stick!), and shoot little candy into kids mouths! We sold a lot there!
And there were more.. but , hey! my memory is just so much!!!
Talk on ya later!!! Auntie Bungy

Post #209210 by bungy on Sat, Jan 21, 2006 7:27 AM