Post #415058 by BC-Da-Da on Thu, Oct 23, 2008 4:07 PM

Also, I'm sad that they didn't use more of the tiki-surf graphics that we provided, although I'm really happy with the ones they did use. There were three pictures of psychedelic era kids at a surf competition, and the trophies and neck-medals were tikis. It was like 1968 or 1969. I'm really surprised they didn't go for those pictures, as well as many others, but I'm sure we'll find a place for them somewhere.

The picture of Dick Dale sitting with a tiki idol behind him is a personal favorite of mine. His girlfriend from the '60s had it on a collage she made of her boyfriend back in 1964! It was about the size of my thumb, and I scanned it at 1200 DPI, so that was the best we could get. I contacted Dick himself to see if he had the original of that picture or if he knew where it came from, and he told me, "No dice." So it seems we got the best we're gonna get for that photo, for the time being. But at least it was published in more places than his ex-lover's collage. Sometimes, in the effort to make these things come alive again, all you can do is use what you've got.

[ Edited by: BC-Da-Da 2008-10-23 16:09 ]