Post #47759 by Basement Kahuna on Thu, Aug 14, 2003 12:27 AM

Some recent finds...matchbooks left to right, clockwise: Tiki Gardens/Trader Frank's, The Tiki Broiler(Waikiki), Shangri-La (Chicago), Naniloa Hotel (Hilo, Hawaii), Bali Hai, Hawaiian "I" (Duarte, Calif.), Trader Vic's Boston, Tiki Hut Restaurant (Billerica, Mass.), Kona Kai Piladelphia, Tai-Pan (Glastonbury, Conn.), and Golden Pacific (Warwick, R.I.). The rest: Pearl Of The South Pacific lobby card with cool huge Cook Islands tiki, Air New Zealand hei Tiki pendant, Hawaiian Village swizzle, Tahitian Bar swizzle (single sided version), Maori patu club, a very cool 60's Alps Japan "Hula Hula" mechanical hula dancer in her original box, 50's Japan Tiki table lighter, and a jewel-eyed coffee grog. Also some cool album finds, including (God help us) Marty Robbins "Song Of The Islands", Les Paul and Mary Ford, "Lover's Luau", another decent copy of Les Baxter's "Ritual Of The Savage" (I always liked this cover), and the full Reader's Digest "South Seas Magic" boxed set.