Post #722918 by creativenative on Fri, Jul 18, 2014 1:12 AM

Finally posting here. Here are some recent "finds" i.e. purchases.

While taking pics of the old South Seas restaurant (cool Samoan Poly Pop architecture), near the airport in Honolulu (now a Kia car dealership), I decided to go down the road to La Mariana tiki restaurant. I have not been there for at least a year. The place was packed on a Thursday afternoon and it looked cleaned up. Anyway after acquiring about their standard tiki mug at the bar, a waitress said, to me, to go ask the manager at the front to open the gift shop for you. What gift shop? I've been here for years and I never known of a gift shop. For some reason you have to ask the manger to get in but no one knows about the shop so no one asks. Here's what I've bought:

One of two versions of the coffee mug has a tiki handle, I bought that one.

Also bought a tee-shirt (one of many). I bought this one, the tiki version of course.

Some mugs, like the standard one at the bar, come in different colors. These standard mugs are not available in the shop only at the bar. Don't ask me why.

A week later, last Sunday, I went to the summer's Collector's Show in Honolulu. Besides some South Seas movie lobby cards, some common mugs and the cheap old Kikkerland moai plastic pepper grinder, I bought this framed tiki. I love it and one of a few highlighted pieces that will go in my future tiki bar.

Finally I bought these tiki socks last month at Tommy Bahamas located at Ala Moana Shopping Center. They also had a cool Kon tiki tee shirt ($$$) but both items are hidden in a drawer and you have to ask for tiki stuff or you'll also never know about them. What's up with all this hiding tiki?

Hope this helps other hunters for tiki, in Hawaii anyway.

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