Post #373345 by Sweet Daddy Tiki on Sat, Apr 12, 2008 5:07 PM

On 2008-04-12 13:35, Brandomoai wrote:
I saw the same Kamehameha in lava along with a Coco Joe hula girl at the West End Goodwill but passed on those due to poor condition, too.

That's the ones I saw - that's the Goodwill I got that stuff from.

It's hard to imagine where any of this stuff is coming from, but I seem to find decent Tiki stuff on a regular basis.

Hawaii and California mostly. The 60s and 70s were a golden age of cheap charter flights and package vacations (remember Wardair? maybe you're too young). Most everyone I knew vacationed in Hawaii, California or Mexico every winter when I was growing up (except for my family, dammit).

...when I find unmarked mugs like the Parasol Girl above or the R-5 lookalike below on the left... where are these from? Are they homemade, or from a generic importer?

The latter, most likely. I have the same R-5 lookalike - it has a paper barcode sticker on the bottom that says "Green Tiki" and a foil "Made in China" sticker.

Koolau wrote:
The difficulties of communication through text - all accusations of crap are cheerfully withdrawn, with apologies.

Thanks. Much appreciated. I guess I could have made my post clearer. I knew Brando didn't buy the crappy cracked kamehameha because he bought his in Calgary and the one I saw was in Edmonton (and it was lava, not hapawood, but I forgot about that). And I didn't mean to sound like I was denigrating B's Orchids Ku - it was offered as an observation with no value judgement. They are (relatively) plentiful around here - I'd say I see them more than any other style of tiki mug. I don't mean they're not desirable - I like them a lot and I'll pick them up if they're not too expensive.