Coco Joes -VS- Hip MORE new pics!! - Collecting Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Thu, Jan 15, 2004 1:50 PM Very interesting threat. What WAS the "trick" (process) they used to be able to call it "Made with Lava" and "Hapa (mixed) Wood". A huge vat of black (or brown) plastic that they ceremoniously sprinkled some ground up Lava into, or sawdust? Gecko, you're there, find some of the original owners and ask them. The output of Coco Joe's, HIP and smaller Tourist Tiki manufacturers was so vast that I only touched on it in the BOT. At the time of writing the BOT the stuff was still lining the shelves of all the tourist shops in Hawaii, and I felt that most of the Tikis at the time were not very unique (not ALL, a few are quite whacky, especially the older, 60s and 70s ones). But the utensils they put out, ashtrays, napkin holders, lighters, and the wall hangings ARE really cool. I especially like it when they created this lava texture, like in the incense burner on page 170 of Tiki Quest, and the wallhangings on page 175. And when the Wahines are shapely... Randy definitely has one of the best collections I've seen.

Very interesting threat. What WAS the "trick" (process) they used to be able to call it "Made with Lava" and "Hapa (mixed) Wood". A huge vat of black (or brown) plastic that they ceremoniously sprinkled some ground up Lava into, or sawdust? Gecko, you're there, find some of the original owners and ask them.

The output of Coco Joe's, HIP and smaller Tourist Tiki manufacturers was so vast that I only touched on it in the BOT. At the time of writing the BOT the stuff was still lining the shelves of all the tourist shops in Hawaii, and I felt that most of the Tikis at the time were not very unique (not ALL, a few are quite whacky, especially the older, 60s and 70s ones).
But the utensils they put out, ashtrays, napkin holders, lighters, and the wall hangings ARE really cool. I especially like it when they created this lava texture, like in the incense burner on page 170 of Tiki Quest, and the wallhangings on page 175. And when the Wahines are shapely...

Randy definitely has one of the best collections I've seen.

Post #69864 by bigbrotiki on Thu, Jan 15, 2004 1:50 PM