Post #28743 by kingslod on Mon, Mar 31, 2003 2:12 PM

When I was a kid, my Dad always served hot chocolate in the special "hot chocholate mugs" with faces on them. Of course my sister and I loved them. They were hot chocolate mugs with weird faces on them.

In my early twenties I got into all kinds of strange music, including exotica. I also read stuff in ReSearch about exotica and Tiki culture.

Later I started buying mugs at garage sales, but had no inclination to actually "collect" them.

One day I counted up the mugs I had, and realized I had a bonafide Tiki Collection. Whoops! After that I couldn't stop.

Yes, I found the series of mugs that had previously been known only as the hot chocolate mugs at a garage sale. I know they were made by Westwood and were manufactured in the early 60s, and they are still my favorites!

Cue "schmarmy music."

--kingslod