Post #694829 by Ragbag Comics on Sat, Sep 28, 2013 8:59 AM

Thanks all for the nice words!

Indeed, there seem to be a lot of connection points between 60's monsters and
tiki... I guess to me it always seemed like a natural progression, what
with the Ed Roth/Munsters "surf-guitar-and-monsters-in-hot-rods" stuff that's
mixed over into the rockabilly and instro surf scenes which have, in turn,
spilled into Tiki... "You got your surf monsters in my Tiki!"

They didn't get any shots of the sideshow artwork in the hallway, which is
neither here nor there, but I feel like it ties things together in some weird-o
way (no one has ever accused me of having normal taste.)

I'll try and dig up some other photos... we were extremely pleased with how
this piece turned out (we didn't end up looking like total drooling morons,
which is kinda the goal) but they really focused on the Tiki mugs, and a lot of
ours were out of view of the cameras on a shelf we built in our kitchen. They
kinda skimmed over the monster room, but I was pleased that there are over 2000
LP's in the there as well, which no one so much as mentioned... I think that
means the monsters won!

Funny you should ask about the Mama Llama at Hala Kahiki, Sven... our dear old Llama
is actually one in the same! We happened to be in the gift shop one day when (unbeknownst
to us at the time) the bar was transitioning over to current owners Jackie and James after
their mother passed away, and the manager was willing to play "Let's Make a Deal" on the
llama... we offered them half what they had on it, and 10 minutes later we were lugging the Llama
into the back of our car.

It was one of the first major pieces of furniture in the living room of our then-new house;
good to have your priorities straight I guess.

One other one has turned up on TC since we bought ours over four years ago... Seems Elvis
had rare (if controversial) taste!

--Pete