Post #480151 by bigbrotiki on Sat, Aug 29, 2009 1:09 PM

But where would the intrepid explorer go to get his threads for expeditions into strange climate zones:
Well to Ernst Brendler off course, marine and tropical outfitter for 130 years!:

I love traditional stores that have not modernized:

The best thing is their brochure has not changed in 50 years:

Well maybe some guys did grow 70s sideburns:


...but tropical swankiness is timeless!

So I had to get myself a 100% linen shirt:

Feels as soft as potato sack cloth! :)

And now, last not least, this one is for Uncle Trav, who has chosen a quote I used in the Book of Tiki as his signature here on TC:

A quote by Karl Woermann,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Woermann

..who was disinherited by his father when he decided to become an art historian. His fahter owned the Deutsch-Afrika shipping line...

...and to this day this warrior stands guard at the Woermann's Afrika Haus in Hamburg, built in 1899:

...while the back entrance in the courtyard is flanked by these elephants:

Granted, these are not Tikis, but the architectural use of romanticist renditions of exotic icons is similar.
Hope you all enjoyed this little excursion through my home town.

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2011-03-17 18:31 ]