Post #767869 by tikiskip on Thu, Aug 25, 2016 7:49 PM

The Fish trap light leads us into our next style of tiki bar light.
This too is a fish trap of sorts as it is used to catch small fish by
standing in the water and plunging the basket quickly down over the fish and trapping it.
Then you can reach into the hole in the top to get your fish.

Have also seen where this basket is used at open markets as a coop for small birds or chickens that are for sale.

Many of the lights from old tiki bars were something else before they were lights for a tiki bar, like say a waste basket, or fish trap, and even rattan Ottoman or other bamboo type things.
You can see the post right before this one has a light made from a rattan ottoman.

In Dixons photos of The Alibi they have this Fish trap/bird coop style light in that place as well.
You can see this light in Sven's house too.

I was able to find some of these on eBay right around the time of the bird flu outbreak, maybe they had to get rid of them.

[ Edited by: tikiskip 2016-08-26 07:38 ]