Post #28439 by Luckydesigns on Fri, Mar 28, 2003 2:03 PM

What got all of you into the collecting of tiki?

When I was talking to Bong yesterday at 'Menahune' practice over a Lapu, we both agreed that we are into the history of tiki and this strange culture that has dissipated over the years. Not so much the newly produced stuff, but the stuff with history to it. Looking at a mug or a carving and saying, can you imagine where this has been and what it's gone through? Don't get me wrong though, alot of the new stuff is great too.

What originally got me into it though, was going to the thrift stores in Stockton, four years ago while I was at school. I would be finding 50's and 60's stuff real cheap and every once in a while I'd come across a mug or an ashtray from the Islander or Trader Dick's. This spurred my curiosity and got me talking to one of my design professors about it. Being a Stockton resident all his life, he told me about the Islander and invited me to his house to see his collection. Not only did he have tons of mugs but matchbooks and postcards; all kinds of stuff.

Shortly after that my girlfriend bought me a curiously puffy hardcovered book by some guy named Sven. He more or less put the pieces together for me and now, here I am, totally consumed in all this ridiculousness.

Let's here your stories.