Post #610370 by TikiTomD on Sun, Oct 16, 2011 10:23 AM

Finally got around to hanging the retro Blowfish Bar sign that Keylo Lewis of HakaTiki created; here it is above the beach house main entry door...

And, per a suggestion from Tigertail777, I sent Keylo’s logo design to Perfect Imprints (http://perfectimprints.com/) of Shalimar, Florida, where Jean-Paul Tamayo transferred the artwork to a custom layout for matchbooks and drink coasters, undoubtedly manufactured elsewhere...

The coasters are Vynex textured polymer on a heavy duty rubber base, with a total thickness of 1.5 mm (1/16 in).

As an aside, Shalimar is a small town located in the Panhandle of Florida near to Fort Walton Beach and Destin. In June of 1950, its brand-new 280-car capacity Florida Drive-In Theatre opened with the 1948 Esther Williams picture, "On an Island with You"...

Here’s the movie trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-3ohJWd0oU&NR=1 where Esther initially walks out of a lake in a scene shot at Cypress Gardens, Florida (now defunct but just reopened yesterday as Legoland Florida).

The Florida Drive-In Theatre closed in the fall of 1973.

-Tom