Tiki Bars That Offer Keeper Tiki Mugs - Collecting Tiki

PTD Psycho Tiki D Tiki Socialite The river Styx, can you pay the toll? Joined: Oct 13, 2006 Posts: 1857	PTD Psycho Tiki D Posted posted on Fri, Oct 5, 2007 4:26 PM On 2007-10-05 09:48, bigbrotiki wrote: On 2007-10-05 06:44, Bongo Bungalow wrote: What current tiki bars serve drinks in tiki mugs where you get to keep the mug? Was this the system with tiki bars of old? As far as I know, the souvenir mug concept might very well have been the raison d'etre for Tiki mugs. If we concede that the first logo Tiki mug EVER was the Tiki Bob, he seems to have been created as an advertising memento mug, as the menu excerpt on page 47 of the Book of Tiki shows. Did the Otagiri sales men use him as an example to sell the concept to other Polynesian posadas, and Tiki mugs spread from there on? Will we ever know? It would be an interesting survey to be undertaken by menu collectors to see how many restaurateurs used the souvenir giveaway (initially without any extra cost) concept. As far as I know, some did, some didn't, some on all, and some only on one or two cocktails. If we can ever find out if the stash in this post: http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=25847&forum=12&11 actually was obtained by drinking, the Stockton Islander would certainly qualify as one of the most generous establishments! :) bigbrotiki, I can only tell you what I was told second-hand by someone who purchased quite a few of these mugs from this seller...they were not from an estate sale...the gentleman selling these used to frequent the Stockton Islander...Alot! I also believe that most of these were available for purchase, either with or without a drink. The gentleman appears to have moved to Lodi recently and is retired. PTD

On 2007-10-05 09:48, bigbrotiki wrote:

On 2007-10-05 06:44, Bongo Bungalow wrote:
What current tiki bars serve drinks in tiki mugs where you get to keep the mug? Was this the system with tiki bars of old?

As far as I know, the souvenir mug concept might very well have been the raison d'etre for Tiki mugs. If we concede that the first logo Tiki mug EVER was the Tiki Bob, he seems to have been created as an advertising memento mug, as the menu excerpt on page 47 of the Book of Tiki shows. Did the Otagiri sales men use him as an example to sell the concept to other Polynesian posadas, and Tiki mugs spread from there on? Will we ever know?

It would be an interesting survey to be undertaken by menu collectors to see how many restaurateurs used the souvenir giveaway (initially without any extra cost) concept. As far as I know, some did, some didn't, some on all, and some only on one or two cocktails. If we can ever find out if the stash in this post:
http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=25847&forum=12&11
actually was obtained by drinking, the Stockton Islander would certainly qualify as one of the most generous establishments! :)

bigbrotiki,

I can only tell you what I was told second-hand by someone who purchased quite a few of these mugs from this seller...they were not from an estate sale...the gentleman selling these used to frequent the Stockton Islander...Alot! I also believe that most of these were available for purchase, either with or without a drink. The gentleman appears to have moved to Lodi recently and is retired.

PTD

Post #336679 by Psycho Tiki D on Fri, Oct 5, 2007 4:26 PM