Post #327064 by bigbrotiki on Tue, Aug 21, 2007 11:11 AM

Thanks everybody! I just talked to Bill Westenhaver on the phone, he got an advance copy this weekend. He is doing great at 83, going on a little Alaska cruise tomorrow with his new lady friend, and told me that he "got to thinking that it is nice to leave a little foot print" with the help of this book. I really would have loved to have been there when he got it and opened it!

To see the old timers get their due recognition, like Bob and Leroy at Oceanic Arts did through the Book of Tiki, or Bob Esmino and Ray Barrientos did at last weekend's Tiki Oasis through Jeff Berry's work, is one of the most rewarding aspects of doing Tiki archeology.

I hope that I will be able somehow to have book signing events together with Bill Westenhaver, the end of this or the beginning of next year, perhaps in Seattle and, one that must be done: At the Hala Kahiki in Chicago. This man needs to see that place as long as he is still around!