Terra Ceramics Tiki Glass 1960's? Anyone know what this is? - Collecting Tiki

PR Phillip Roberts Tiki Socialite OAHU/Seattle Joined: Sep 09, 2003 Posts: 1701	PR Phillip Roberts Posted posted on Mon, Jan 16, 2012 8:51 PM Aloha, On 2012-01-13 18:32, Beachbumz wrote: Hopefully someone can chime in about Island Holidays Resorts possibly... Well, Ok. I suppose that would be me, our man in Hawaii. You've summed up the current knowledge of Terra Ceramics. I'm still waiting for Victoria's daughter to get back to me... She bought a couple of copies of Waikiki Tiki last year to send her family for Christmas. She was thrilled anyone remembered or cared about the company and mom's designs... You can see the non-scalloped version of the mug in my book as well as many rare Terra Ceramics productions. My favorites are the Hawaiian Village ones... This mug is probably part of a giftshop contract for the chain... read on... As far as "Island Holiday Resorts" goes, that was under the umbrella of the Amfac Corporation. They operated the following 12 hotels during the early 1970's-1980s, when the mug is circa... Kauai - Coco Palms, Kauai Beachboy Hotel, Waiohai Hotel and the Poipu Beach Hotel. Maui - Royal Lahina Resort (including the first outer island Don The Beachcombers restaurant,) and the Kannapali Beach Hotel Hawaii - Keauhou Beach Hotel and the Hotel King Kamehameha Oahu - Waikiki Beachcomber (including the last Don the Beachcomber restaurant in the islands,) Holiday Isle Hotel and the Waikiki Malia Hotel. They worked closly with Donn as their advisor, so naturally there was plenty of tiki installed at most of these hotels during the 1970's and 1980's... AMFAC actually has an intersting history, starting in 1849 as a dry goods store in Honolulu. Seized during WWI and then sold in 1918 to by the US government to a consortium of businessmen, they were big into sugar. They ran Liberty House and 40 or so other companies before bankruptcy, due to the decline of sugar prices, around 1989.

Aloha,

On 2012-01-13 18:32, Beachbumz wrote:
Hopefully someone can chime in about Island Holidays Resorts possibly...

Well, Ok. I suppose that would be me, our man in Hawaii.

You've summed up the current knowledge of Terra Ceramics. I'm still waiting for Victoria's daughter to get back to me... She bought a couple of copies of Waikiki Tiki last year to send her family for Christmas. She was thrilled anyone remembered or cared about the company and mom's designs...

You can see the non-scalloped version of the mug in my book as well as many rare Terra Ceramics productions. My favorites are the Hawaiian Village ones... This mug is probably part of a giftshop contract for the chain... read on...

As far as "Island Holiday Resorts" goes, that was under the umbrella of the Amfac Corporation. They operated the following 12 hotels during the early 1970's-1980s, when the mug is circa...

Kauai - Coco Palms, Kauai Beachboy Hotel, Waiohai Hotel and the Poipu Beach Hotel.
Maui - Royal Lahina Resort (including the first outer island Don The Beachcombers restaurant,) and the Kannapali Beach Hotel
Hawaii - Keauhou Beach Hotel and the Hotel King Kamehameha
Oahu - Waikiki Beachcomber (including the last Don the Beachcomber restaurant in the islands,) Holiday Isle Hotel and the Waikiki Malia Hotel.

They worked closly with Donn as their advisor, so naturally there was plenty of tiki installed at most of these hotels during the 1970's and 1980's...

AMFAC actually has an intersting history, starting in 1849 as a dry goods store in Honolulu. Seized during WWI and then sold in 1918 to by the US government to a consortium of businessmen, they were big into sugar. They ran Liberty House and 40 or so other companies before bankruptcy, due to the decline of sugar prices, around 1989.

Post #621168 by Phillip Roberts on Mon, Jan 16, 2012 8:51 PM