Post #608955 by Mai Tai on Tue, Oct 4, 2011 2:21 AM

Marlene, here are a few pics from the warehouse sale, that you can find in this specific posting in this thread:
Trader Vic's Warehouse Sale #1

The tiki was REALLY heavy, and it took a bunch of strapping young lads to load it, while I watched. :wink:

Mike's hand got a little smashed up in the process, but you'd never guess it with that huge smile on his face!

We managed to fit the tiki into someone's SUV, but it was still so long that it's head stuck out of the back, and that's the really heavy part! I believe that the bottom part went all the way up to the dash board, and it was fairly secured somewhere up along there, but the head still moved around to some degree, and Ray and I were more than a little worried that it could slip out on the long drive home to Sacramento! Well, obviously there were no mishaps, so it made the journey just fine.

Btw, remember when I said that they had several really large vintage tikis similar in style to yours that were as big or even much bigger, and although they were lumped in with the merchandise available for sale due to storage concerns, yet they weren't available for sale as they were destined for restaurants? Well, here's some pics of those as well, they're laying on the floor:

P.S. Anyone who has been to my house recently (like within the last 8 months or so) would probably be shocked to see what my front living room used to look like BEFORE I loaded all of the schwag in there from the warehouse sale plus bamboo and other building materials to build my home bar. Well, here ya go!