Tiki Goes to College - Yearbook Archeology - General Tiki

STCB Sabu The Coconut Boy Tiki Socialite Carson, California Joined: Aug 20, 2002 Posts: 2813	STCB Sabu The Coconut Boy Posted posted on Fri, Jan 16, 2009 4:22 PM I'm opening this thread to catalog Poly-pop and Tiki images from old highschool and college yearbooks, as well as from other academic ephemera from the 1950s & 60s. I've finally accumulated enough images to make a start but I'm hoping other folks might have a few. I seem to remember Sven winning a yearbook on eBay back in 2002 that had a Moai for a mascot, (I think the team was called The Islanders). I'll start with the older images first. These are from the Pepperdine College (Los Angeles) yearbook of 1955. In among the photos of fraternities and sororities, was this popular club: The Aloha Shirts that these Beachcombers wear are really top-notch. Here's a closeup of the officers: They also performed valuable services for the student body: In Torrance CA, El Camino College's Chi Gamma Iotas held their 4th annual "Beachcombers Ball" in 1957: In the same yearbook was this photo of the Chi Theta Chi sorority; winners of the annual "Spring Sing" competition. Here they are, singing "Aloha Oe": :up: I like this image because it shows that those goofy palm-frond tiki masks were around back in 1957. I also recently scored some complete bound-editions of Stanford University's "Chaparral" magazine - a humor publication that parodied the more serious Stanford arts magazine called the "Sequoia". Here's an interesting ad from inside the March 1958 issue: I got excited, thinking I had discovered proof of a new Tiki Restaurant that I had never heard about. But I should have known better. This is a humor magazine and they were parody-ing one of their regular advertisers :down: Still, The photo of "Idy's" must have been taken in some real Tiki Bar. I wonder which one? Best of all was this large, full-page ad from the June 1958 issue of Chaparral. I love the dress, the modernist drapes, and the tapa-trimmed lamp with the tiki base: That's it for now. I'll keep combing those vintage yearbooks for more. Sabu [ Edited by: Sabu The Coconut Boy 2009-01-16 17:45 ]

I'm opening this thread to catalog Poly-pop and Tiki images from old highschool and college yearbooks, as well as from other academic ephemera from the 1950s & 60s.

I've finally accumulated enough images to make a start but I'm hoping other folks might have a few. I seem to remember Sven winning a yearbook on eBay back in 2002 that had a Moai for a mascot, (I think the team was called The Islanders).

I'll start with the older images first.

These are from the Pepperdine College (Los Angeles) yearbook of 1955. In among the photos of fraternities and sororities, was this popular club:

The Aloha Shirts that these Beachcombers wear are really top-notch. Here's a closeup of the officers:

They also performed valuable services for the student body:

In Torrance CA, El Camino College's Chi Gamma Iotas held their 4th annual "Beachcombers Ball" in 1957:

In the same yearbook was this photo of the Chi Theta Chi sorority; winners of the annual "Spring Sing" competition. Here they are, singing "Aloha Oe":

:up: I like this image because it shows that those goofy palm-frond tiki masks were around back in 1957.

I also recently scored some complete bound-editions of Stanford University's "Chaparral" magazine - a humor publication that parodied the more serious Stanford arts magazine called the "Sequoia". Here's an interesting ad from inside the March 1958 issue:

I got excited, thinking I had discovered proof of a new Tiki Restaurant that I had never heard about. But I should have known better. This is a humor magazine and they were parody-ing one of their regular advertisers :down:

Still, The photo of "Idy's" must have been taken in some real Tiki Bar. I wonder which one?

Best of all was this large, full-page ad from the June 1958 issue of Chaparral. I love the dress, the modernist drapes, and the tapa-trimmed lamp with the tiki base:

That's it for now. I'll keep combing those vintage yearbooks for more.

Sabu

[ Edited by: Sabu The Coconut Boy 2009-01-16 17:45 ]

Post #429163 by Sabu The Coconut Boy on Fri, Jan 16, 2009 4:22 PM