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TN Tiki Nate Member Maryland Joined: Feb 13, 2015 Posts: 12	TN Tiki Nate Posted posted on Fri, Feb 13, 2015 1:20 PM Hello everyone - I'm another OLDER (yeeeach!) tikiphile that started collecting in earnest oh, round about 1990 or thereabouts, I blame a set of "Tiki Leilani" mugs for my descent into tiki-madness found in a second-hand shop in the early days of the (sadly missed) Fell's Point before it took a bath and decided to be "Inner Harbor Eastside." Anyways, 100's of flea markets later, I designed my very own tiki escape pad covered in tiki mugs, salt n peppa shakers, masks, bamboo, Coco Joe statuary, and rattan furniture (oh, and three pinball machines, another inescapable hobby of mine)! I come from the "purist" side of the hobby, having cut my teeth in the pre-internet days where you didn't know what mugs were out there until you pawed through dusty store shelves, local GoodWill stores, and moldy cardboard boxes on someone's lawn. I probably paid .25 to 1.00 for everything I found, my fondest memory being an entire box full of Orchids of Hawaii mugs (probably about a dozen) of various designs that were .25 each!! The new mugs are cool, and I'm glad there is a resurgence of tiki interest, but I prefer the "original" tiki mugs and their vintage decorative counter-parts over the other products from the likes of Tiki Farm etc. (of course, I own some of that too and I love the designs!). I got to the Kahiki in Ohio the week before their "farewell party" - I felt it more fitting to pay my respects during a "regular night" so as to take advantage of being able to see the entire space minus the crowds of people that attended for that sad farewell evening a week later....... At 47(?!) I still can't believe I've aged that much, but still feel as giddy and young as I did the first time I turned over a pale-brown piece of pottery and locked gazes with another snarling tiki that would soon join my growing collection! I've been to Trader Vic's in Vegas, and hope to visit Tennessee's Omni Hut and Florida's Mai Kai very soon. You can add me to the vintage architecture, photography, writing, roadside attractions, spook houses, pinball/arcade games, outsider art, low-brow/hotrod art, kitsch, nudie, LP/music, classic cars horror/psychotronic movies collector categories also!!! Have a great weekend everybody - gonna be a cccccoold one! Tiki Nate :tiki:

Hello everyone - I'm another OLDER (yeeeach!) tikiphile that started collecting in earnest oh, round about 1990 or thereabouts, I blame a set of "Tiki Leilani" mugs for my descent into tiki-madness found in a second-hand shop in the early days of the (sadly missed) Fell's Point before it took a bath and decided to be "Inner Harbor Eastside."

Anyways, 100's of flea markets later, I designed my very own tiki escape pad covered in tiki mugs, salt n peppa shakers, masks, bamboo, Coco Joe statuary, and rattan furniture (oh, and three pinball machines, another inescapable hobby of mine)!

I come from the "purist" side of the hobby, having cut my teeth in the pre-internet days where you didn't know what mugs were out there until you pawed through dusty store shelves, local GoodWill stores, and moldy cardboard boxes on someone's lawn. I probably paid .25 to 1.00 for everything I found, my fondest memory being an entire box full of Orchids of Hawaii mugs (probably about a dozen) of various designs that were .25 each!!

The new mugs are cool, and I'm glad there is a resurgence of tiki interest, but I prefer the "original" tiki mugs and their vintage decorative counter-parts over the other products from the likes of Tiki Farm etc. (of course, I own some of that too and I love the designs!).

I got to the Kahiki in Ohio the week before their "farewell party" - I felt it more fitting to pay my respects during a "regular night" so as to take advantage of being able to see the entire space minus the crowds of people that attended for that sad farewell evening a week later.......

At 47(?!) I still can't believe I've aged that much, but still feel as giddy and young as I did the first time I turned over a pale-brown piece of pottery and locked gazes with another snarling tiki that would soon join my growing collection!

I've been to Trader Vic's in Vegas, and hope to visit Tennessee's Omni Hut and Florida's Mai Kai very soon.
You can add me to the vintage architecture, photography, writing, roadside attractions, spook houses, pinball/arcade games, outsider art, low-brow/hotrod art, kitsch, nudie, LP/music, classic cars horror/psychotronic movies collector categories also!!!

Have a great weekend everybody - gonna be a cccccoold one!

Tiki Nate :tiki:

Post #737329 by Tiki Nate on Fri, Feb 13, 2015 1:20 PM