the great stockton islander mystery....... oooooh - General Tiki

T tikicleen Tiki Socialite ripon: almond capital yet no orgeat Joined: Nov 11, 2003 Posts: 338	T tikicleen Posted posted on Sun, May 16, 2004 9:31 PM okay gang, i have had this burning question on my mind for many sleepless nights in the hopes that someone may be able to offer me an answer to this great tiki mystery. as some of you know, i am a stockton islander collector-fiend, borderline obsessive compulsive but not quite at the whore-bag stage for islander items. i dont have MANY of the islander tikis, but enough to keep me satisfied (for now). during this past week, two stockton islander menus were auctioned off on ebay, which is quite unusual since they are very uncommon. in fact, the last islander menu i recall seeing on ebay was back in october of 2000 (damn you okbuyer1! i WILL hunt you down, you no good sniper!) but i digress. anyway, both menus this week went for catastrophically high prices that were not even worth bidding against. both went for over 400 bucks. however, an intriguing question was brought up in viewing both of these menus. i saved both images from the auctions. :sheckymug: first here is the stockton islander menu with the andreas bumatay tiki on front and a note from tommy lee (spelled tommie instead of tommy for some reason) but anyway, very nice menu, older, very cool. :sheckymug: now HERE is the weird part. the other menu, which appears to be a tad newer, has a note from HOP LOUIE on the back. NOT from tommy lee. im not sure if you can see it from the picture. so some of you who are still reading this post are probably thinking, so what? it changed owners, big deal. well thats the thing. as far as i know, tommy lee had the islander until it went under, due to his gambling problems. within the stockton islander, the bar was referred to as latitude 20. as some of you know, there was another restaurant called the latitude 20 down in socal, which was owned by hop louie. latitude 20 took over the old polynesian restaurant. so was there some point when hop louie took over the stockton islander? was he responsible for naming the islander bar latitude 20? were hop louie and tommy lee the same person? oh the suspense! im really confused! i need a drink. :drink:

okay gang, i have had this burning question on my mind for many sleepless nights in the hopes that someone may be able to offer me an answer to this great tiki mystery. as some of you know, i am a stockton islander collector-fiend, borderline obsessive compulsive but not quite at the whore-bag stage for islander items. i dont have MANY of the islander tikis, but enough to keep me satisfied (for now). during this past week, two stockton islander menus were auctioned off on ebay, which is quite unusual since they are very uncommon. in fact, the last islander menu i recall seeing on ebay was back in october of 2000 (damn you okbuyer1! i WILL hunt you down, you no good sniper!) but i digress. anyway, both menus this week went for catastrophically high prices that were not even worth bidding against. both went for over 400 bucks. however, an intriguing question was brought up in viewing both of these menus. i saved both images from the auctions.
:sheckymug:
first here is the stockton islander menu with the andreas bumatay tiki on front and a note from tommy lee (spelled tommie instead of tommy for some reason) but anyway, very nice menu, older, very cool.

:sheckymug:
now HERE is the weird part. the other menu, which appears to be a tad newer, has a note from HOP LOUIE on the back. NOT from tommy lee. im not sure if you can see it from the picture.

so some of you who are still reading this post are probably thinking, so what? it changed owners, big deal. well thats the thing. as far as i know, tommy lee had the islander until it went under, due to his gambling problems. within the stockton islander, the bar was referred to as latitude 20. as some of you know, there was another restaurant called the latitude 20 down in socal, which was owned by hop louie. latitude 20 took over the old polynesian restaurant. so was there some point when hop louie took over the stockton islander? was he responsible for naming the islander bar latitude 20? were hop louie and tommy lee the same person? oh the suspense! im really confused!

i need a drink. :drink:

Post #91507 by tikicleen on Sun, May 16, 2004 9:31 PM