Coco Joes melting? - Collecting Tiki

S spy-tiki Tiki Socialite glendale, ca Joined: May 11, 2003 Posts: 762	S spy-tiki Posted posted on Mon, Jun 14, 2004 8:52 PM Now that I've read all this I want to know about the "lava" question. I had a lava tiki when I was little too. It said it was made of lava and I believed it. Last trip to Hawaii I picked up a little brown tiki key chain obviously made of plastic. So anyway, at the M Modern gallery tiki show in Palm springs, one of the owners had a black "lava" tiki around his neck that his mom had given him when he was a kid. It was the same as my plastic one! ('cept his was black lava stuff) So what's the story? Does this mean that there weren't Hawaiians frantically molding tikis out of hot lava for us mainlanders? Say it isn't so! Also, I looked, but did not see any tikis made of "lava" while I was there. I can't believe there's a shortage of the stuff. What gives?

Now that I've read all this I want to know about the "lava" question. I had a lava tiki when I was little too. It said it was made of lava and I believed it.

Last trip to Hawaii I picked up a little brown tiki key chain obviously made of plastic.

So anyway, at the M Modern gallery tiki show in Palm springs, one of the owners had a black "lava" tiki around his neck that his mom had given him when he was a kid. It was the same as my plastic one! ('cept his was black lava stuff)

So what's the story? Does this mean that there weren't Hawaiians frantically molding tikis out of hot lava for us mainlanders? Say it isn't so!

Also, I looked, but did not see any tikis made of "lava" while I was there. I can't believe there's a shortage of the stuff. What gives?

Post #96394 by spy-tiki on Mon, Jun 14, 2004 8:52 PM