Tiki Finds - Collecting Tiki

M Mo-Eye Member Taboo Island, USA Joined: May 17, 2006 Posts: 646	M Mo-Eye Posted posted on Sun, May 11, 2008 1:03 PM Got to love Craigslist! I found a local ad for a large collection of matchbooks and match covers, and best of all the owner just wanted to give them away to a good home. I went to pick them up, hoping for maybe a couple cool, older Hawaiian or tiki covers. It was the motherload! The guy came out with about 10 boxes of matchbooks, and 6 of those old green binders of match covers. Once I started going through them, it turns out most were from southern CA and from the 60s and 70s. I've pulled 100+ tiki and tropical matches from this collection. Now I've just got to get rid of all of these non tiki matches! All of these matches have inspired me to spend the day doing some research on these places (at least as much as I can do on my laptop from the couch). I'll post any new info I may find. Aloha!

Got to love Craigslist!

I found a local ad for a large collection of matchbooks and match covers, and best of all the owner just wanted to give them away to a good home. I went to pick them up, hoping for maybe a couple cool, older Hawaiian or tiki covers.

It was the motherload! The guy came out with about 10 boxes of matchbooks, and 6 of those old green binders of match covers. Once I started going through them, it turns out most were from southern CA and from the 60s and 70s. I've pulled 100+ tiki and tropical matches from this collection. Now I've just got to get rid of all of these non tiki matches!

All of these matches have inspired me to spend the day doing some research on these places (at least as much as I can do on my laptop from the couch). I'll post any new info I may find.

Aloha!

Post #379554 by Mo-Eye on Sun, May 11, 2008 1:03 PM