Don the Beachcomber Mug Question - Collecting Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Fri, Feb 20, 2004 8:07 PM The knock off's were done by everybody's favourite Tiki vendor, Allen St.James, I think they were of the fat version, which I deem to be the follow up of the slender original, whose mold probably turned bad. Funny thing is that the first had no resemblence to the real Donn Beach (like Geoff noted), so I figure it is from the 70s when Getty owned the chain. And the fat one even looks kind of Asian, probably because a Japanese re-did the original design. Just making deductions. [ Edited by: bigbrotiki on 2004-02-20 20:13 ]

The knock off's were done by everybody's favourite Tiki vendor, Allen St.James, I think they were of the fat version, which I deem to be the follow up of the slender original, whose mold probably turned bad.

Funny thing is that the first had no resemblence to the real Donn Beach (like Geoff noted), so I figure it is from the 70s when Getty owned the chain. And the fat one even looks kind of Asian, probably because a Japanese re-did the original design. Just making deductions.

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki on 2004-02-20 20:13 ]

Post #77152 by bigbrotiki on Fri, Feb 20, 2004 8:07 PM