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B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Tue, Oct 14, 2008 9:14 PM Wow, what perfect irony, Bob Hope's stuff sold off at the defunct Trader Vic's ...the end of an era! Here are two definite objects of desire for the Tiki collector from the Hope archive, unearthed from the vaults of Tiki Central (in 2001): The plaque on the first one reads: "Presented to Bob Hope on behalf of all the military personnel stationed in Hawaii- Schofield barracks 16 Dec 1971" It was fashioned after a not uncommon lawn Tiki. I resurfaced here in 2003 in this post, see it in better quality: http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=4026&forum=1 Back then I knew of a guy who was working to catalog and archive all of Bob's mementos. Kind of sad, here is the answer to Bongo Bungalow's question "What will happen to your collection when you're dead?". Who knows if ol' Bob had hoped for little museum, and the family played along and then just said "It goes".

Wow, what perfect irony, Bob Hope's stuff sold off at the defunct Trader Vic's ...the end of an era!

Here are two definite objects of desire for the Tiki collector from the Hope archive, unearthed from the vaults of Tiki Central (in 2001):

The plaque on the first one reads:
"Presented to Bob Hope on behalf of all the military personnel stationed in Hawaii-
Schofield barracks 16 Dec 1971"

It was fashioned after a not uncommon lawn Tiki. I resurfaced here in 2003 in this post, see it in better quality:
http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=4026&forum=1

Back then I knew of a guy who was working to catalog and archive all of Bob's mementos. Kind of sad, here is the answer to Bongo Bungalow's question "What will happen to your collection when you're dead?". Who knows if ol' Bob had hoped for little museum, and the family played along and then just said "It goes".

Post #413409 by bigbrotiki on Tue, Oct 14, 2008 9:14 PM