Hawaiian Village or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Microfilm - Collecting Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Wed, Oct 29, 2008 12:23 PM On 2008-10-28 23:40, Dustycajun wrote: Very cool, micro-fish is fun. Here is a menu from the HV that is closer to the sketch, but still no cigar. I think I have seen that menu one somewhere out there before though. DC Probably on Arkiva Tropika, in this form: Or in Tiki Modern: The two first ones are both bad versions of this cover, which, as I was saying above, was ripped off by the Hawaiian Village from a menu cover done in the early 50s for American PRESIDENT (I left that out above) Cruise Lines. I do not own the original, but I have another one from the series which clearly shows the same style and concept: They had NO name printed on the front, which made them suitable for framing --and easy to rip off. :D Here is the name of the original artist:

On 2008-10-28 23:40, Dustycajun wrote:
Very cool, micro-fish is fun. Here is a menu from the HV that is closer to the sketch, but still no cigar. I think I have seen that menu one somewhere out there before though.

DC

Probably on Arkiva Tropika, in this form:

Or in Tiki Modern:

The two first ones are both bad versions of this cover, which, as I was saying above, was ripped off by the Hawaiian Village from a menu cover done in the early 50s for American PRESIDENT (I left that out above) Cruise Lines. I do not own the original, but I have another one from the series which clearly shows the same style and concept:

They had NO name printed on the front, which made them suitable for framing --and easy to rip off. :D
Here is the name of the original artist:

Post #416127 by bigbrotiki on Wed, Oct 29, 2008 12:23 PM