Post #4761 by Tiki_Bong on Wed, Jul 31, 2002 9:10 AM

This is just a different slant on this thread, but isn't it possible that the stuff we so feverishly prize today - the vintage tiki mugs, the carved tikis, the rattan furniture etc - was considered cheap ass junk when it was new?

I sure that in 1948 for example, some old codger, after looking at the newly made rattan coffee table with tiki mugs on it just purchased by his son, said "geez, look at this cheap ass crap you bought boy!, why when I was your age furniture was made by craftsman in their wood shed and these mugs with weird faces!! what ever happened to fine bone china?".

What I'm saying is that all things old were once new (and hence of less value than they currently are). It's is also completely possible that long after we're gone some future tiki-phile will exclaim with excitement "wow! look at this plastic tiki mug I found in my great grandfather's house. He said he bought it at Big Lots in 2002! 50 years ago!"

Just a thought.