Tiki Central / Locating Tiki / Trader Vic's, Oakland, CA (restaurant)
Post #609773 by Trad'r Bill on Mon, Oct 10, 2011 11:12 PM
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Pa'akiki recently shared this pic of an original painting from her collection - thank you so much! As the story goes, it once hung at the Trader Vic's Oakland location. The former owner of the painting would meet her husband (who was in the service) at Vic's, and they would sit right underneath it. She loved the painting so much that Vic took it right off the wall and gave it to her one day. How cool! The signature reads: "S. Simonet" who I think is Sebastian Felix Simonet. He was mentioned in the book: Artists in California 1786-1940 by Edan Hughes. Simonet died in 1948, so that dates the painting somewhat.
...notice the similarity to the early mailer:
I wonder which one of these came first?? -Trad'r Bill |
