Harry's Harbor Bazaar, Port of Hamburg, Germany, (store) - Locating Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Sun, Mar 25, 2007 12:18 PM Name: Harry's Harbor Bazaar Type: Store Street: Erichstraße 56 (Corner of Balduinstraße) City: Hamburg State: North Germany Zip: country: Germany Phone: Status: operational Description: This non-academic primitive art store originated out the collections of a genuine Hamburg sailor's bar that closed in the 1950s. Though not much Polynesian art is present, the atmosphere of a turn of the century curio store or anthropolgy museum can nowhere else be felt as genuineley as at Harry's. It has been immortalized by Tom Waits on his "The Black Rider" album in his "Lucky Day Overture" as "Harry's Harbour Bizarre". Old location postcard 1: Old Location postcard 2: Since it's move from the dizzying labyrint of catacombes in the Bernhard-Nocht Strasse the room with the moldy taxidermied animals is gone unfortunately, but the same awe at the sheer mass of carvings and the maze they form can still be experienced in its current location....Ladies and gentlemen--Harry's Harbour Bizarre is proud to present: Their website is all in German, but by trial and error one can navigate the store virtually: http://www.hafenbasar.de/ [ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2009-08-29 00:26 ]

Name: Harry's Harbor Bazaar
Type: Store
Street: Erichstraße 56 (Corner of Balduinstraße)
City: Hamburg
State: North Germany
Zip:
country: Germany
Phone:
Status: operational

Description:
This non-academic primitive art store originated out the collections of a genuine Hamburg sailor's bar that closed in the 1950s. Though not much Polynesian art is present, the atmosphere of a turn of the century curio store or anthropolgy museum can nowhere else be felt as genuineley as at Harry's.

It has been immortalized by Tom Waits on his "The Black Rider" album in his "Lucky Day Overture" as "Harry's Harbour Bizarre".

Old location postcard 1:

Old Location postcard 2:

Since it's move from the dizzying labyrint of catacombes in the Bernhard-Nocht Strasse the room with the moldy taxidermied animals is gone unfortunately, but the same awe at the sheer mass of carvings and the maze they form can still be experienced in its current location....Ladies and gentlemen--Harry's Harbour Bizarre is proud to present:

Their website is all in German, but by trial and error one can navigate the store virtually:
http://www.hafenbasar.de/

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2009-08-29 00:26 ]

Post #294479 by bigbrotiki on Sun, Mar 25, 2007 12:18 PM