1950 Trader Vic's article - General Tiki

E exotica59 Member Joined: Oct 17, 2004 Posts: 483	E exotica59 Posted posted on Thu, Apr 20, 2006 6:24 AM Last week while thumbing through some stuff at a antique store, my husband came across an article from the Aug. Holiday magazine from the 1950's. I'm guessing a lot of you have read this already. Many neat tidbits about TV's in the article. If I may I'd like to quote from the article: "The place is awash in atmosphere in the form of ship model, shark jaws, ships in bottles, tropical sponges, whalers' harpoons, fish nets and exotic dragons in porcelain. Chinese idols, and Buddha’s, Alaskan totem poles and coco matting from the South Seas. There are lanterns from old sailing ships, spars and anchors, and coils of hawser, and there are the inevitable souvenirs of the most recent wars, in the form of rifles, shell cases, fragmentation bombs, and service insignia.. There are conchs, pearl oysters and sheath knives, intricately woven baskets, sprays of tropical coral, and bows and arrows." I was wondering where are the tiki's? Did the author just forget to mention them--or is this pre-tiki yet? Did he add tiki's later and remove the military stuff ( fragmentation bombs?!) at some point? I've never been to this Vic's--that's why all the questions.

Last week while thumbing through some stuff at a antique store, my husband came across an article from the Aug. Holiday magazine from the 1950's.
I'm guessing a lot of you have read this already. Many neat tidbits about TV's in the article. If I may I'd like to quote from the article:

"The place is awash in atmosphere in the form of ship model, shark jaws, ships in bottles, tropical sponges, whalers' harpoons, fish nets and exotic dragons in porcelain. Chinese idols, and Buddha’s, Alaskan totem poles and coco matting from the South Seas. There are lanterns from old sailing ships, spars and anchors, and coils of hawser, and there are the inevitable souvenirs of the most recent wars, in the form of rifles, shell cases, fragmentation bombs, and service insignia..
There are conchs, pearl oysters and sheath knives, intricately woven baskets, sprays of tropical coral, and bows and arrows."

I was wondering where are the tiki's? Did the author just forget to mention them--or is this pre-tiki yet? Did he add tiki's later and remove the military stuff ( fragmentation bombs?!) at some point?
I've never been to this Vic's--that's why all the questions.

Post #227636 by exotica59 on Thu, Apr 20, 2006 6:24 AM