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 Thu, Mar 3, 2016 11:32 AM Yah, the Alibi is a place worth visiting. Skip, nice to know where those come from. The jug lamp has its glass bottom cleanly sawed off, and sits in a recessed wood base: Then there is a hole in the wood bottom, with a lid and locks, very convenient: Note that all the wood has sand glued to it, one of those loving touches I adore :) By the way, down here in L.A., most of the float lamps I have seen are in the pebbled resin style. All the lamps at Kelbo's… …and Bahooka… …were resin. Here are some of the bamboo fish traps at the Alibi: Only Trader Vic's had the expensive glass floats :) [ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2016-03-03 12:06 ]

Yah, the Alibi is a place worth visiting.

Skip, nice to know where those come from. The jug lamp has its glass bottom cleanly sawed off, and sits in a recessed wood base:

Then there is a hole in the wood bottom, with a lid and locks, very convenient:

Note that all the wood has sand glued to it, one of those loving touches I adore :)

By the way, down here in L.A., most of the float lamps I have seen are in the pebbled resin style. All the lamps at Kelbo's…

…and Bahooka…

…were resin. Here are some of the bamboo fish traps at the Alibi:

Only Trader Vic's had the expensive glass floats :)

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2016-03-03 12:06 ]

Post #760093 by bigbrotiki on Thu, Mar 3, 2016 11:32 AM