Post #649238 by tiki1963 on Thu, Aug 23, 2012 9:29 AM

On 2012-08-23 07:23, Tipsy McStagger wrote:

I guess when his bar ultimately closes it's doors in 2 years or less, we'll go to his auction and get another shot at the stuff we were outbid on..... har !!

Glad the barney west is going somewhere other than the city dump. It desreves a good home and to be restored (and you have one hell of a restoration job heading your way with this one) to it's original glory. it has provenance from the old palmer house traders.

ouch!

the shells went high but they are pretty hard to come by.

i ship a lot of big stuff and have a deal with some shipping companies that make it cost effective. i recently shipped three ten footers from the Hawaiian Hut in honolulu.

the West is pretty much one of the top signature tikis i've seen...and i've seen alot. it's a friggin shame those dolts decided to take a 50 yr+ indoor tiki and stick it in the chicago weather but i'm sure it's salvageable.

do you know when they did the weird vinyl paint job on the tikis at Palmer House? i have a couple of original P House poles that didn't go to the new location and they already had that fake wood grain paint on them. i'm thinking 80s?

basically, i'll see what the issues are when i get it. if it seems more than i want to handle, i'll take it over to Leroy at OA and have it restored.