Post #427480 by bigbrotiki on Tue, Jan 6, 2009 12:29 PM

Nice of you to make this rare collectable available to the Tiki community. If there ever was a United Airlines logo Tiki, this was it, since it was also used on their famous menu (the original, ancient Ku stands at the Bishop Museum):

I was lucky to find one early in my collecting career. In 1992 I hit upon the idea of using it as a growth chart for my son Diego:

Here he is at 3 months, and at 7 months.
Unfortunately, I was naive enough to keep it in my front yard, and the next year it was stolen. I tried to keep up the tradition by photographing him at a friend's house who had a fountain, but the time gaps grew too large, here he is at 2 years old:

...so I had to give up on the idea. Yet the kid has not stopped growing since: Last October, at age 16, he beat me in height, passing the 6 foot mark. Scary!:

Anyway, my old friend Swanky was lucky enough to find the complete set, with basin (which I had seen only once in the wild before):

http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=1099&forum=5&vpost=205381

I like your set up, very complete in all the elements, like you said.
(By the way, you can delete your double post by clicking on "edit" and then marking the "delete" box.)

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2009-01-06 18:30 ]