Tikiskip: Guide to tiki bar lights, Identification of styles, ect... - Collecting Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Wed, Mar 2, 2016 10:06 PM Wow!: All the classics in one swoop! Even the damn Beachcomber Jug lamp, I thought I owned the last one! Well that one (and some of the others) would be from Oceanic Arts in Whittier, CA: Another source is likely to have been Sea & Jungle in Glendale, CA: It's entirely possible that Orchids of Hawaii in the Bronx made some of those lights, too, but I only have a "late Tiki" catalog from the 90s from them: You have a real treasure there, these lamps are not being made anymore, and have not been for decades. It is great that they are going up in an original Tiki bar, and I dare say that they will make The Alibi into THE Polynesian paradise with the most impressive lamp firmament in the U.S. (..which it had been close to being already)!

Wow!: All the classics in one swoop! Even the damn Beachcomber Jug lamp, I thought I owned the last one!

Well that one (and some of the others) would be from Oceanic Arts in Whittier, CA:

Another source is likely to have been Sea & Jungle in Glendale, CA:

It's entirely possible that Orchids of Hawaii in the Bronx made some of those lights, too, but I only have a "late Tiki" catalog from the 90s from them:

You have a real treasure there, these lamps are not being made anymore, and have not been for decades. It is great that they are going up in an original Tiki bar, and I dare say that they will make The Alibi into THE Polynesian paradise with the most impressive lamp firmament in the U.S. (..which it had been close to being already)!

Post #760066 by bigbrotiki on Wed, Mar 2, 2016 10:06 PM