TRADER VIC's Warehouse Sale - General Tiki

M midnite Member 37? 47' N, 122? 26' W Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 1230	M midnite Posted posted on Sun, Mar 2, 2008 11:30 PM Mai Tai wrote: Oh my god!!! There was a warehouse sale? Either that or we're going steady. Quicksand! Quite a week it was, indeed. I made it for the open last Saturday and was there when the door was finally lowered Friday evening. There are so many memories I shall take away from my numerous visits to the warehouse sale. Saturday was akin to an actual Tiki event with many fellow TC members sharing a moment for the collecting ages. We were mulling about in stupefied wonder gazing at all the Vic's treasures. For me it was somewhere between the fevered giggles of discovering Ali Baba's cave and reverent Sunday go to church quiet. It was a gas. So many great times, so many friends, new and old, to name. My favorite aspect of the sale is the realization that many of my tiki pals acquired some great pieces of Trader Vic's history and that these relics will be appreciated for many years. Fortunately, I was able to purchase what I believe are some fine, and one extremely fine, items. I was a bit reluctant to talk about this one purchase, for a number of reasons. However, now that the sale is over I can reveal this particular item which I was so very lucky to acquire. Some back story: While my eager presence and appreciative fan boy attitude was genuine and pure I did hope I could exhibit enough Trade Vic bona fides to Kier and Michelie and thereby eventually be shown the good stuff. The real creme de la creme of the inventory, so to speak. You know, the VIP, high dollar collectors' eyes only, private reserve, the rarest of the rare. My various charms and dogged persistent bore fruit as I found myself alone with the warehouse girls one afternoon last week. It was at this time they quietly offered me one incredible object. Many could call it a grail, holy or otherwise. I had never seen it in person and frankly doubted it still even existed. Through my many years of tiki/Trader Vic's collecting I had heard stories of this vaunted relic, this gem in the crown of Vic's memorabilia. Kier held it out in front of me and whispered, "It's yours, go ahead." Dumbstruck, in awe from what sat before me, I was barely able to inquire, "Uhh, um, how much?" Well, you know, the old refrain, if you have to ask... It was expensive, most assuredly. Still, what price glory, what cost to possess the unattainable? Does beauty have a price, is there a ready quote for holding history? My kingdom for a horse? Hardly. This, this is the true stuff of legend, tiki collecting or otherwise: It's mine, all mine! My precious, midnite

Mai Tai wrote:
Oh my god!!! There was a warehouse sale?

Either that or we're going steady. Quicksand!

Quite a week it was, indeed. I made it for the open last Saturday and was there when the door was finally lowered Friday evening. There are so many memories I shall take away from my numerous visits to the warehouse sale. Saturday was akin to an actual Tiki event with many fellow TC members sharing a moment for the collecting ages. We were mulling about in stupefied wonder gazing at all the Vic's treasures. For me it was somewhere between the fevered giggles of discovering Ali Baba's cave and reverent Sunday go to church quiet. It was a gas. So many great times, so many friends, new and old, to name. My favorite aspect of the sale is the realization that many of my tiki pals acquired some great pieces of Trader Vic's history and that these relics will be appreciated for many years.

Fortunately, I was able to purchase what I believe are some fine, and one extremely fine, items. I was a bit reluctant to talk about this one purchase, for a number of reasons. However, now that the sale is over I can reveal this particular item which I was so very lucky to acquire. Some back story: While my eager presence and appreciative fan boy attitude was genuine and pure I did hope I could exhibit enough Trade Vic bona fides to Kier and Michelie and thereby eventually be shown the good stuff. The real creme de la creme of the inventory, so to speak. You know, the VIP, high dollar collectors' eyes only, private reserve, the rarest of the rare.

My various charms and dogged persistent bore fruit as I found myself alone with the warehouse girls one afternoon last week. It was at this time they quietly offered me one incredible object. Many could call it a grail, holy or otherwise. I had never seen it in person and frankly doubted it still even existed. Through my many years of tiki/Trader Vic's collecting I had heard stories of this vaunted relic, this gem in the crown of Vic's memorabilia. Kier held it out in front of me and whispered, "It's yours, go ahead." Dumbstruck, in awe from what sat before me, I was barely able to inquire, "Uhh, um, how much?" Well, you know, the old refrain, if you have to ask...

It was expensive, most assuredly. Still, what price glory, what cost to possess the unattainable? Does beauty have a price, is there a ready quote for holding history? My kingdom for a horse? Hardly. This, this is the true stuff of legend, tiki collecting or otherwise:

It's mine, all mine!

My precious,
midnite

Post #364544 by midnite on Sun, Mar 2, 2008 11:30 PM