Vintage Trader Vic's drink menu question - Collecting Tiki

T thomamas Tiki Centralite Joined: Apr 09, 2007 Posts: 55	T thomamas Posted posted on Mon, Sep 23, 2013 5:11 PM On 2013-09-18 01:44, TropicDrinkBoy wrote: That last menu cover was also used at Trader Vic's Palo Alto. I was told by someone definitely "in the know" that the graphics for that menu were copyrighted by Trader Vic's in London (opened April 22, 1963) and Palo Alto had to get permission from London to use the graphic. If you mean the painting of the sailor on the barrel with two topless girls (the second image I posted), I'm sure it was used in the US before 1963. Here's a signed San Francisco/Oakland menu from 1956, and the menu I posted was than that. Any more details on the London copyright?

On 2013-09-18 01:44, TropicDrinkBoy wrote:
That last menu cover was also used at Trader Vic's Palo Alto. I was told by someone definitely "in the know" that the graphics for that menu were copyrighted by Trader Vic's in London (opened April 22, 1963) and Palo Alto had to get permission from London to use the graphic.

If you mean the painting of the sailor on the barrel with two topless girls (the second image I posted), I'm sure it was used in the US before 1963.

Here's a signed San Francisco/Oakland menu from 1956, and the menu I posted was than that.

Post #694388 by thomamas on Mon, Sep 23, 2013 5:11 PM