Post #574098 by gabbahey on Tue, Feb 1, 2011 12:00 AM

Those torches are awesome, I would have walked right by them

I've been collecting for a little over a month now. I thought I would post what I have managed to gather so far.
Forgive the long post but I want to get some feedback on this stuff. It is mostly random crap from thrift stores and such. The prices are what I paid as this stuff is staying around for a while.

I wanted a scorpion bowl very badly and found the Tepco across the street from my work at an antique store. It was dirty and in a pile of stuff with no prices labeled half off. She wanted twenty and I talked her down to $12 on account of one of the figures busted off and was sloppily repaired with I don't know what. Still, it keeps the drinks cold. I have only seen blue ones online. Is the brown and white glaze uncommon?
Also: an Arthur Lyman album and a "We are Hawaii" comp from Hula Records - still sealed. Paid 50 cents each. I also got weird Oral Roberts in Hawaii comp at the same time. Televangel-iki? In the back is an original pinup of a lady in a fishnet bathing suit. I'll scan it and if anyone is interested. Have another model in a tropical flower print suit. Came from a local newspaper photographer's estate, I'm told, and has the model info on the back. Paid $7 for each one.

Swizzle Sticks! Don the Beachcomber, Trader Vics, Seagrams etc. $3 bucks for a bunch.

My favorite thing I've gotten is the red paper umbrella in the middle. It is an old one from bali hai. It is broken in the middle so I haven't decided how to display it. The dealer threw it in for free and I think it is cool that it survived.
Also: Hawaii Kai Cookbook - $2 nice. The food isn't bad, either. First thing I found.
Nudie Hawaiian glass. $8.

Mugs from local thrift stores
Orchid of Hawaii Coconut .99 cents. Homemade barrel marked "V. for MTE '65" $3. Quon-Quon Tiki .99 cents.

Newer Trader Vic Hawaii mug $10. ebay. My favorite to drink out of.
Orchid of Hawaii bamboo $6 ebay

Old tiki beer coozie. from big lots & Old 1965 Olympia pull tab can. Priceless. 3 of the dread Leilani. $3 each - the tall one leaks. Display only. Drumming coconut monkey. $5 at the thrift store. He snuck up there.

The one that got away. Tiki/Orange Shag Fur Headboard. The clerk told me one bottom leg tiki was broken and the other his uncle took. The headboard is about 9 feet long. It is still there.

The biggest thing I'm wondering about is the Tepco bowl.

gabbahey