Post #698292 by tikiskip on Sun, Nov 3, 2013 12:45 PM

Amy I should say that your places the few I have seen are Awesome,
and it is an honor to have my lights in them.

Thanks again Sven, I'm not as good a word smith as you and have trouble getting my
point across as well as you do.

And Lucus here comes the confusing part.
Most real fish floats were made of glass, a few were plastic.
But many of the lights in tiki bars of old were heck whatever they could find that looked
like it would fit into their tiki spot.
So of the fish float lights that were glass this thin glass was made more for décor and not the rough
seas plus you would not need a pretty color glass for a true fish float that would be used at sea.
Another thing that made bars of old I would guess not want to use real fish floats is
the fact that there is no hole in real fish floats you can cut a hole in them but they often
break when you do.

Heck the first Trader Vic's had sleds and tricycles hanging in it (as told in Life mag)
Look at the stuff in Bahooka lots of that is not very tiki per say and this place had lots o plastic globes,
But the place looked great altogether.

Like the Documentary says it's a Plastic Paradise.