Post #645329 by bigbrotiki on Tue, Jul 24, 2012 12:13 AM

That is a cool find, Don, since this is a hobbyist mug, but I don't think a version from this hotel has come up yet:

http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=20758&forum=5

It's out there in all kinds of glazes, some more interesting than others, like the one on the left, with speckles of green:

Now the one on the right (from the Tiki Kate collection) would not be so interesting, would it not have this pedigree on the back:

Despite the gold cold paint job being pretty crappy, the combination of Tiki and Space Needle is damn cool!
Maybe there was a booth where you could "paint your own Tiki mug" at the fair? And who was Virginia Moore ?

A house wife ? A teenager ? A tourist from Southern California? Will we ever find out? :)

P.S.: Not to forget, here's a GOOD thread about that World's Fair:
http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?mode=viewtopic&topic=19276&forum=1&start=0

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2012-07-24 00:19 ]