Elvis Jungle Room = Witco??? - General Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Sun, Aug 20, 2006 2:48 AM Thank you woofmut, that is some fun writing you unearthed. I am going to mention a slightly different (more reliable source) version of the above anecdote in my Witco book, where Elvis had already bought the furniture that day (unbeknownst to his dad), and Vernon was in town and noticed it (still in the store), and then came home and told Elvis what horrible stuff he had seen. Imagine that smirk on Elvis' face. It is a fine tale to illustrate what I see as one of the features of Witco: An emancipation from your forefathers' purist taste. Since I introduced Witco (and its relationship to Elvis) to the general public in the BOT, the Elvis Jungle Room connection has become THE buzzword for Witco e-bay sellers (outdoing the Hugh Hefner pool one). It has made Witco into a search word, and driven up Witco prices in general, like for (beaten up) items such as this lamp http://cgi.ebay.com/LARGE-50S-FUNKY-WITCO-HANGING-LAMP-TIKI-LOUNGE-EAMES_W0QQitemZ160019299627QQihZ006QQcategoryZ4056QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem to where it almost takes the fun out of hunting and gathering. I am happy to report that for once, I got lucky and snagged a whole ("Elvis-style")"Marco Polo" living room set (2 sofas, 3 chairs, 3 tables, 1 foot stool, with those Chinese dragon head armrests [not snakes]) for a good price (almost the same amont than that ONE lamp), while at the same time a similar one was on e-bay for a ridiculous $15.000.- (and NOT with the original faux fur upholstery). The storage and transport must have been a turn off (was for me too, and I would not have bid more, but nobody else did either :)), so: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=ADME:B:EOIBSAA:US:31&Item=280013276471 The hook here is the shipping. It will cost me 3 times the purchase price to have it shipped to LA. But it's still a good investment. And what a trip that furniture will have made by then: As an added irony, it is now awaiting pick up in a little town in Maine called Mount Vernon, while it originally CAME from a little town North of Seattle called....Mount Vernon. [ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2006-08-20 03:23 ]

Thank you woofmut, that is some fun writing you unearthed.

I am going to mention a slightly different (more reliable source) version of the above anecdote in my Witco book, where Elvis had already bought the furniture that day (unbeknownst to his dad), and Vernon was in town and noticed it (still in the store), and then came home and told Elvis what horrible stuff he had seen. Imagine that smirk on Elvis' face.

It is a fine tale to illustrate what I see as one of the features of Witco: An emancipation from your forefathers' purist taste.

Since I introduced Witco (and its relationship to Elvis) to the general public in the BOT, the Elvis Jungle Room connection has become THE buzzword for Witco e-bay sellers (outdoing the Hugh Hefner pool one). It has made Witco into a search word, and driven up Witco prices in general, like for (beaten up) items such as this lamp

http://cgi.ebay.com/LARGE-50S-FUNKY-WITCO-HANGING-LAMP-TIKI-LOUNGE-EAMES_W0QQitemZ160019299627QQihZ006QQcategoryZ4056QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

to where it almost takes the fun out of hunting and gathering.

I am happy to report that for once, I got lucky and snagged a whole ("Elvis-style")"Marco Polo" living room set (2 sofas, 3 chairs, 3 tables, 1 foot stool, with those Chinese dragon head armrests [not snakes]) for a good price (almost the same amont than that ONE lamp), while at the same time a similar one was on e-bay for a ridiculous $15.000.- (and NOT with the original faux fur upholstery). The storage and transport must have been a turn off (was for me too, and I would not have bid more, but nobody else did either :)), so:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=ADME:B:EOIBSAA:US:31&Item=280013276471

The hook here is the shipping. It will cost me 3 times the purchase price to have it shipped to LA. But it's still a good investment. And what a trip that furniture will have made by then: As an added irony, it is now awaiting pick up in a little town in Maine called Mount Vernon, while it originally CAME from a little town North of Seattle called....Mount Vernon.

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2006-08-20 03:23 ]

Post #249899 by bigbrotiki on Sun, Aug 20, 2006 2:48 AM