Post #314737 by Psycho Tiki D on Mon, Jun 25, 2007 6:14 AM

On 2007-06-24 21:10, tikiyaki wrote:

On 2007-06-24 20:22, twitch wrote:
"Punks not dead, it just sucks now"
A lot of us (and you know who you are) tend to seek different ground when the current one gets too overpopulated with outsiders. What fun is it to go to your secret place to escape the world when the world is waiting for you when you get there?
Getting out of punk for a little while got me into several other cool things I might never have discovered, so scene-gentrification isn't 100% bad, but still, gotta be wary of who you let through that door...

Well Put.

When the dorky kid from down the street who picks his nose and eats it is suddenly hanging out in the secret treehouse, it's time to find a new treehouse. :P

Well it appears the booger eating kids have shown up...case in point:

Locally, the establishment that used to be the Stockon Islander and became the Pollardville restaurant closed up shop.
Although far from having much of anything left of the original Islander, there were a couple of existing pieces that many true and tried tiki fans would have been interested in owning. When news of this closure was published, the story in the press was they were going to auction everything they had, including the tiki and other stuff off.
Bad news is the tiki (which was a main support in the building) and the old tiki carved handrails (which had been turned around and were not discovered until the demolition began) never made it auction. They were purchased by a local antique dealer under the table for $700.00 and now reside in their home, being held hostage for the higest bidder. This couple has said $2,400.00 for the tiki and I could not get them to give me a firm price on everything ($2,900.00 was thrown out, but not a solid figure). Thus far, they have played everyone inquiring about these items.
The best I can tell is they really don't care about tiki, they do like that it is currently a valid trend. In their booth at the local antique shop they have a few Islander mugs in the $45.00 to $60.00 range, as well as a few nodder hula girls in the $85.00 to 125.00+ range. They have done their research well and they know what they have.

So to my point; exposure and tiki being a valid trend in this case does not bode well for the collector and lover of tiki. Five, ten or twenty years ago, this couple would have not looked twice at these items, let alone pay $700.00 for them.

Be careful what you ask for...hey is that guy picking his nose?

Psycho Tiki D (I know I am and that was a scratch and not a pick)!