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We closed Island Trade Stores in Bazaar in about 1960, I think your tikis necklaces pictured were possibly sold at the Hwaiian wear shop directly behind us. They also had a shop in Plam Springs.
Our tiki necklaces were made of the newly invented some kind of ployurathane mixed with volcano ash. They were black (no stone eyes), and hung on a black plastic ribbon.
Your desecription of the Bazaar was right on. When I got back from sailing to Tahiti and beyond for nearly 3 months, and was picked up at LAX and taken to Disneyland and Bazaar.. I will necer forget the exotica feel. Each shop ran into each other and sometime s the customers had a hard time figuring out where to pay. Ours was jammed apcked with stuff from all over the South Pacific. Daddy had been a South Seas Island Importer since WWll, and had some good contacts. Our warehouse space smelled like the South Seas!
Auntie B.
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