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Post #815660 by Tiki_Thor on Mon, May 19, 2025 4:56 AM

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Yeah, a lot of the earlier (pre 1965) menus I have googled up were not dated, or had no artwork/images... and if a coconut was featured, they didn't specify if it was served in a real or ceramic coconut, which makes it kind of hard to know without a good dated image to go with it. Much less what specific potion was served in it (beyond some coconut and some rum)!

I have no doubt real coconuts were used before the concept of ceramic "souvenir" mugs came along.

I have followed some leads here and elsewhere for "tiki menu repositories" that led to dead ends or downed sites, unfortunately. It would be really great if good quality scans of collections could be assembled in one place.

[ Edited by Tiki_Thor on 2025-06-10 14:00:40 ]