Post #735936 by bigbrotiki on Sun, Jan 25, 2015 6:08 AM

Just google "WITCO" (under "Images") and "William Westenhaver" and you will find lots of examples - but beware, not everything that sez "Witco" on e-bay IS Witco.

You can also look up and down this thread here:
http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?mode=viewtopic&topic=20416&forum=5&start=1335

A surefire way to get the most info about Witco would be to get my book TIKI MODERn, which tells the story of Witco - but alas, it is out of print, and thus quite expensive:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3822847178/ref=s9_simh_co_p14_d0_i2?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=left-3&pf_rd_r=0CQ0B9PTTEN6APP0SXAH&pf_rd_t=3201&pf_rd_p=1774862082&pf_rd_i=typ03

I have never seen a bar like yours in any Witco catalog (and I have looked thru them all, from the mid-60s to the mid-70s), so it is either a one-of, or it is a knock off by one of its imitators:

http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=10281&forum=5&start=0

The stools look very much like Witco - but then I don't recall any that are quite that simple. The front of the bar looks like a Witco knock off. The side Tikis are the most Witco-ish…but then Witco did not use the Ku figure very often.

(Ku figures at the City of Refuge, Kona, Hawaii)

In any case, it is a great deal for a singular item. Somewhere on TC there is an answer to WHICH wood oil to use to revive the wood a bit.

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2015-01-25 06:30 ]