Best type of place to find them - Collecting Tiki

T tikipedia Member San Diego Joined: Aug 25, 2004 Posts: 491	T tikipedia Posted posted on Sun, Feb 10, 2008 10:16 PM The majority of my in-the-wild finds have been at thrift stores and swap meets (and only certain swap meets, for that matter). And my rate of success for finding anything anymore is about 1 visit in 10. Antique stores are usually slow. Most of the store owners say how collectible Tiki is, and how it flys off the shelf as soon as they get the stuff. I am still astonished how I can walk into a huge antique store filled with thousands of bowls, glasses, chinaware, etc., but cannot find a single tiki mug. Garage sales are almost always a bust around here, since most of the people are military who are moving, or younger people who post-date the heyday of tiki. One place you might want to look, is mini-storage places who are auctioning off property stored in unpaid storage lockers. And you might also want to check for older restaurants and bars that are going out of business. I am still kicking myself over a local bowling alley that closed down. The bar had cases of Morgantown tiki stemware that they never used, and it all went into the trash. The Tikipedia www.tikipedia.com [ Edited by: tikipedia 2008-02-10 22:19 ]

The majority of my in-the-wild finds have been at thrift stores and swap meets (and only certain swap meets, for that matter). And my rate of success for finding anything anymore is about 1 visit in 10.

Antique stores are usually slow. Most of the store owners say how collectible Tiki is, and how it flys off the shelf as soon as they get the stuff. I am still astonished how I can walk into a huge antique store filled with thousands of bowls, glasses, chinaware, etc., but cannot find a single tiki mug.

Garage sales are almost always a bust around here, since most of the people are military who are moving, or younger people who post-date the heyday of tiki.

One place you might want to look, is mini-storage places who are auctioning off property stored in unpaid storage lockers. And you might also want to check for older restaurants and bars that are going out of business. I am still kicking myself over a local bowling alley that closed down. The bar had cases of Morgantown tiki stemware that they never used, and it all went into the trash.

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[ Edited by: tikipedia 2008-02-10 22:19 ]

Post #360479 by tikipedia on Sun, Feb 10, 2008 10:16 PM