The Islanders Restaurant and Cabaret B.C., Canada, Surrey, Canada (restaurant) - Locating Tiki

T TabooDan Tiki Socialite Coast of BC now in Crowsnest, AB., Canada Joined: Jul 18, 2004 Posts: 691	T TabooDan Posted posted on Wed, Mar 2, 2011 12:36 PM Well, still no more information found about the Islanders. After a few emails exchanged with a High School Class reunion member, still nothing. I started to feel like I was disrupting her as she said she would return my email, then never did, then I would try again and after responses like I will get back to you, I think it's better I try elsewhere. It has now been over two and a half years. This might yet be another of those locations that we will just have to wait and see if anyone comes up with anything. On the other hand.....I did manage to find a relic that I had put away quite a few years ago because I had no where to display it. I didn't get to picture it until now. On one of my visits to see Tom, the gentleman who made the mug molds for a few local Tiki Restaurants, I asked him if he remembered this Restaurant. He did remember the place and also stated that he thought he had done some pieces for another artist who worked with The Islanders. He could not remember what he had done. He said there was a local ceramic artist who did quite a few pieces for The Islanders as well as a few other places. Her name was Jeanne. Her name has come up before on a few different items that I have seen from other Restaurants such as The Tropic Isle, The Outrigger in Prince George and now The Islanders. Tom made the molds of her work or pieces she wanted and Jeanne did all the ceramic work and firing, etc. As I was talking to him about The Islanders it was like a switch turned on for him. "Oh yeh.... The Islanders. I think I still have something from there". Off he went downstairs, not to his outside shop, as I waited in the living room thinking that he may come up with a napkin, postcard or something along those lines. After a few minutes he came back up and says, "here it is, I knew I had something down there!". This is what he came up with: A very large ceramic Shell Bowl. One of the most fragile items I have seen! It is not very thick at all and I was surprised that this piece was still intact!! I asked him what he was doing with it and he said it was just holding some papers on a shelf in the basement! I was very impressed!! I was even more impressed when I looked at the bowl and it was actually marked "The Islanders" in raised writing on the top of the Shell!! What a cool piece I thought and there can't be too many of these that have survived over the past 35+ years!! Especially since these are quite large and very fragile and especially if these were used in the Restaurant which is what Tom said. The bottom of the Bowl is marked "Jeanne" in writing scratched in to the ceramics. Such a cool piece and the furthest thing from my mind that would surface from this Restaurant! I've seen bowls like this from other places but not too many and very rarely to have the Restaurants name like this on it! Hopefully more to come! Mahalo, TabooDan [ Edited by: TabooDan 2011-03-02 12:40 ]

Well, still no more information found about the Islanders.

After a few emails exchanged with a High School Class reunion member, still nothing. I started to feel like I was disrupting her as she said she would return my email, then never did, then I would try again and after responses like I will get back to you, I think it's better I try elsewhere. It has now been over two and a half years.

This might yet be another of those locations that we will just have to wait and see if anyone comes up with anything.

On the other hand.....I did manage to find a relic that I had put away quite a few years ago because I had no where to display it. I didn't get to picture it until now.

On one of my visits to see Tom, the gentleman who made the mug molds for a few local Tiki Restaurants, I asked him if he remembered this Restaurant. He did remember the place and also stated that he thought he had done some pieces for another artist who worked with The Islanders. He could not remember what he had done.

He said there was a local ceramic artist who did quite a few pieces for The Islanders as well as a few other places. Her name was Jeanne. Her name has come up before on a few different items that I have seen from other Restaurants such as The Tropic Isle, The Outrigger in Prince George and now The Islanders. Tom made the molds of her work or pieces she wanted and Jeanne did all the ceramic work and firing, etc.

As I was talking to him about The Islanders it was like a switch turned on for him. "Oh yeh.... The Islanders. I think I still have something from there". Off he went downstairs, not to his outside shop, as I waited in the living room thinking that he may come up with a napkin, postcard or something along those lines.

After a few minutes he came back up and says, "here it is, I knew I had something down there!".

This is what he came up with:

A very large ceramic Shell Bowl. One of the most fragile items I have seen! It is not very thick at all and I was surprised that this piece was still intact!! I asked him what he was doing with it and he said it was just holding some papers on a shelf in the basement! I was very impressed!!

I was even more impressed when I looked at the bowl and it was actually marked "The Islanders" in raised writing on the top of the Shell!!

What a cool piece I thought and there can't be too many of these that have survived over the past 35+ years!! Especially since these are quite large and very fragile and especially if these were used in the Restaurant which is what Tom said.

The bottom of the Bowl is marked "Jeanne" in writing scratched in to the ceramics.

Such a cool piece and the furthest thing from my mind that would surface from this Restaurant! I've seen bowls like this from other places but not too many and very rarely to have the Restaurants name like this on it!

Hopefully more to come!
Mahalo, TabooDan

[ Edited by: TabooDan 2011-03-02 12:40 ]

Post #578472 by TabooDan on Wed, Mar 2, 2011 12:36 PM