coco joes

Wow, those water sculptures are great, never heard of THAT concept. Those Hawaiian tourist art makers sure were magicians: They could turn mere plastic into wood or into lava, and now: Water!

Has anyone ever heard anything about the formula they based their Made with Lava claims on, like how many sprinkles of ground lava they added to a vat of molten black plastic to make it "Legends in Lava"...and did they actually ad wood shavings to create "Hapa Wood"?

The text of that magazine art is great, too!

Nice one Freddie. Poster girl? Eh? Care to elaborate?

-Randy

On 2008-06-29 07:21, bigbrotiki wrote:

Has anyone ever heard anything about the formula they based their Made with Lava claims on, like how many sprinkles of ground lava they added to a vat of molten black plastic to make it "Legends in Lava"...

Muuwahahahahaa!!Ancient Chinese secret still to be discovered..

and did they actually add wood shavings to create "Hapa Wood"?

BigBro, maybe you can decipher this??? Seems to be a cross between Clintonese and some dialect of Jive or they're smokin some good sh*t....Groovie man...

On 2008-06-30 16:42, aquarj wrote:
Nice one Freddie. Poster girl? Eh? Care to elaborate?

-Randy

Aloha Randy!! She was the poster girl for Coco Joe's LavoLei Line of jewelry in the mid 60's...


:o

Freddie :tiki:(HOUSE OF KU)

Now I'm paying attention

Thanks Freddie,
You are THEE in-house expert on CJ's. That Don Gallacher was one busy guy. Seems like no matter how long you've been looking at cocojoes, there's always something new (that was old).

Thanks to everyone who keeps posting pics on this thread.

-Randy

On 2008-07-01 04:10, HOUSE OF KU wrote:
BigBro, maybe you can decipher this??? Seems to be a cross between Clintonese and some dialect of Jive or they're smokin some good sh*t....Groovie man...

What the ...!? First of all, it is great to find out Hawaii has so many native trees with cool names, so that part is very educational. But how the heck can they make the claim that they made them ALL merge into plastic figurines? I think you're right, they must have been smoking Hapa Weed!

Just got this little gal. Was wondering if I could get an ID on the maker. Coco Joe, Hip, Polyart ?
Thanks.

Aloha! This figurine is by Holo-ka-hana and here is a related thread.....

On 2005-09-10 12:38, dogbytes wrote:
I thought I’d post here, where the lava figurine collectors are: do any of you have information on (what I think) might be a company older than Cocojoes and HIP ~ Holo-Ka-Hana, Ltd.

the label

reads:

“Nanea (fascinating)

The latest creation by Holo-Ka-Hana, Ltd.

Nona Kapuailohia Beamer, recognized exponent of Hawaiian hula, named this fascinating figurine. Talented Georgi Daniel sculptured (Nanea) as well as Menehune Hauoli, Ki'i, Hoohehe'e, Koa, the Hawaiian warrior and Haunani, the beautiful Hawaiian miss.

All figurines are registered in the Territory of Hawaii, and are the exclusive property of Holo-Ka-Hana.

Lava from a recent volcanic eruption is used in a secret process giving these masterpieces of Hawaiiana a true distinction. Something to be treasured with your other fine pieces. These are not reproductions of great art - they are original authentic, and exclusive- made only by Holo-Ka-Hana, Ltd. Honolulu, Hawaii, We sincerely hope you will treasure (Nanea)”

I’ve googled to find out more about the company, but I’m having no luck. Nona Kapuailohia Beamer is the mother to Keola Beamer, the musician. Georgi Daniel passed away at the age of 82 in 1998.

oh and while i'm here: how do you clean & protect your cocojoes/HIPs? i thought the soap n water, soft damp towel would work, but they're still pretty grungy.

thanks
elicia

Same family.....

One more related thread with a twist :lol:

http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=27140&forum=5&hilite=holo

Aloha, Freddie

Freddie. Thanks for the help. I knew I could get some great info. Nice little figure. Thanks again.

edited due to pictures below.....thanks

[ Edited by: TIKIVILLE 2008-10-06 17:10 ]

"part of my collection ....let me know if I'm sitting on anything rare!"

Do NOT sit on your Coco Joe figurines! Some of them could be quite painful and it's not good for the Coco Joes either!

Thanks for sharing your collection... yeah, you've got some nice ones there and a nice piece of burled wood too.

Hey Come on....get those pictures uploaded on here!!

turns out I wasn't sittin on any of em ...lolhere is some photos..

here are a few more !

I'll post more later!

Hanfooooooorrrrrrrrrrddddddddd! Make this guy go away!

Found this petroglyph ashtray on Friday and the matching lighter on Saturday about forty miles apart. Gotta love it.

That's not a lighter, that's a hand grenade! Send it to me, I will defuse it!
What a funny convergence. The ashtray is in Tiki Modern, of course.

On 2008-10-19 19:19, bigbrotiki wrote:
The ashtray is in Tiki Modern, of course.

Looks like the picture of it got reversed in the book. "Black resin ashtray by Hip" Fact checker, please! :P

Buzzy Out!

Anyone have any idea about this Frank Schirman?

Check this site out. I think it's called "The Kiss"

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://sdbirds.basiclink.com/New_Folder4/schirman09.jpg&imgrefurl=http://sdbirds.basiclink.com/frank_schirman.htm&h=793&w=655&sz=108&hl=en&start=1&um=1&usg=__Z7YES_ecBAGVdzGWwdq4CG7nBxo=&tbnid=cmwnhmQgJmsWoM:&tbnh=143&tbnw=118&prev=/images%3Fq%3DFrank%2BSchirman%26ndsp%3D20%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN

Look under the section listed in, Other Schirman pieces, that I do not have in my collection yet!

#53 Kihoni "The Kiss"

Niceeeeeeeee

[ Edited by: tikipaka 2008-10-20 18:01 ]

Thanks for the link Tikipaka. Gotta love the Salvation Army for those random & rare finds!

HERE IS A ONE STOP HAUL !

should I post individual shots ?

thought this might be good for the thread:
1958?

On 2009-07-22 11:40, sneakyjack wrote:
thought this might be good for the thread:
1958?

Was this one of there stores? I love outposts like this.

Aloha Tikitony! Thats the original location in Punaluu, which burn't down in 1965. Another picture... posted by Tikiville...looks like we have a happy camper on our hands :lol:

Aloha, Freddie :tiki:

Hey thanks Freddie! Great vintage photo! I love those aged ones!

I picked up this hapawood resin plate a few years back at the swapmeet:

I didn't buy it right away because it wasn't a Coco Joes and it didn't have a tiki on it. The sticker said the manufacturer was Pictures of Paradise. Since I didn'tfind anything else that day,I went back and got it.

I remember when I bought it the lady told me it was from the 60's. She got mad at me when I pointed out the 1986 copyright on it

At the time,I never noticed how much the 27-192 looked like a Cocojoes catalog number

So yesterday, I was looking at this Cocojoes catalog and came across the page of Hapawood plates.

The plate I had was fresh in my mind because I had just moved it on my shelf of stuff.

Then I notice this logo on the catalog page:

Same as tag:

So I guess it's technically another fine Coco Joe's product.

And the answer was right there in front of me the whole time. I just couldn't connect the dots...

And while I'm on the subject of NonCocoJoes Cocojoes,here's another one I have from a company called Coralei:

Buzzy Out!

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[ Edited by: Bay Park Buzzy 2009-10-08 19:45 ]

On 2009-10-08 19:43, Bay Park Buzzy wrote:
And while I'm on the subject of NonCocoJoes Cocojoes,here's another one I have from a company called Coralei:

Buzzy Out!

Here's a business card with the same address...

Which just so happens to be imbedded in this Tiki....

A CoCo Joe Tiki...

That company made the Coco Joe line before they went belly up... :( They even had a line of American Indian figures...

Aloha, Freddie :tiki:

From an old ebay listing

CocoJoe's entrance 1957:

Buzzy Out!

question...Can you hang a flat back Coco Joes on the wall?

On 2009-10-27 07:42, nature boy wrote:
question...Can you hang a flat back Coco Joes on the wall?

I've got nothing but time to try...

A volunteer from the doubles pile:

Flat backed older piece

Now the drill:

Drilled it in about half way through the piece:

Next step involved a brad and a hammer.Here is the hanger installed:

Then I just slid the hole over the nail and the tiki was stuck fast:

Answer: Yes you can!

"Then I just slid the hole over the nail and the tiki was stuck fast"
That's what she said!
Buzzy Out!

lol...yes, yes you can.

I got some new display cases for my collection a few weeks back.Since I had to move, clean,and rearrange it all,I figured I'd take photos of the whole lot while I was at it. I have just over 600 pieces now. Just a few more and I'll have them all!
Here are the new cases all along one wall:

And here are the shots of them all,starting with the Coco Joes,HIP,Polyarts, and ending on the smaller companies :

CocoJoes puna rift lava plaques

Tiki plaques:

Dancer plaques

Different colors comparision:

Coco Joes lava tikis:

Lava Tikis 9"-14" tall

Lava Tikis 12" tall

Lava Tikis 9-10" tall

Lava Tikis 8-12" tall

Lava Bookends and Ku

Lava tikis 6" tall

small lava tikis

Alii gold

lava bottle openers

lava lighters

Frames

Letter holder and lava lamp(it originally came with a candle)

Lava tiki letter openers

Letter opener,mini knifespoon set,and bolo tie

Lava tiki Penholders


lava tiki Penholders and jelly boat

Coco Joes lava pendants tagged

Coco Joes lava pendants

Petroglyphs ashtrays

Tiki pipeholder ashtrays

Tiki ashtrays

Ashtray lighter set

Ashtray & letter opener

Bookmarker

Still in package stuff

Coco Joe's hapa wood tikis

Tikis 12-14"

Tikis 8-12"

hapawood tiki bookends

hapawood tikis 6"

hapawood tikis 6"

hapawood tikis 6-8"

Hapawood kanaloas 9"

Hapawood tikis 8-9"

Hapawood tikis 9"

Hapawood tikis 4"

bottle openers

lighters

Hapawood tiki ashtrays and pipe holder

hapa wood Tiki penholders

hapawood letter and bottle openers

hapawood tiki pendants +united airlines

Hapawood tiki pendants

Hawaiian zodiac pendants

Coco Joe's hapawood non tikis

12-18" hapawood

9-12" hapawood

9" hapawood

Small hapawood non tiki pieces

Hula pen holders

Egg timer and letter holder

Hapawood non tiki pendants

Coco joe bolo tie

Hapawood various

Orlas and letter holder

Hapawood bowls

Hapawood ashtray and bowls
Bronzites and Lava

Old wholesale pricelists

Catalogs

Postcard,pamphlet,wooden nickel

Coco Joe's Lava non Tiki

Surf themed

Large King Ks

Small King Ks

Fertility gals

Ukes etc

Peles etc

Tiki carver, musician, fisherman

Recliners

Hulas and dancers

Lakis and storyteller

Warrior, napkin holder, bottle opener

Coco joes lava non tiki pendants

Ashtrays and penholders

CocoJoe himself:

HIP Tikis

larger than 9" lava

larger than 9" hapawood

HIP medium sized hapawood tikis

Medium sized lava tikis

Small HIP tikis

HIP tiki lighters

Little Grassshack bookends and letter holder

God of Love ashtrays

Tiki Outrigger

Pen holder & letter opener

HIP Olivine and sandstone

HIP small olivine

Olivine ashtray,letter opener, and paperweight

HIP pendants tagged

HIP pendants

HIP Jumbos Lava

HIP jumbos mixed

HIP dancers

Penholders and King K

Fertility godesses and Lei seller

HIP non rascal humorous

HIP rascals

CoralRascal variationon the right

Memorial stand up and bookends

HIP hula ashtrays

Pipe holder/ashtrays

Ashtray and wallhanger

HIP letter openers

Polyart tikis

Polyart hapawoods

Polyart/Schirman's

Polyart nonTikis

Ashtrays and lighters

Ashtrays

Pineapples

Polyart Hulas:

Frank Schirman tikis:

Schirman non tikis

Schirman wallplaque

Polystone

Exotic Creations

Plaster unmarked, pied piper, Randotti

Hula Lei,unmarked,unmarked

Unmarked and Holo Ka Hana

Lava Ray

Guam and saipan

Chiefly

Holo Ka Hana and South Seas Sales

Pictures of Paradise,BIP,and Hilo tiki

Polyart? and HIP? cant remembers

Tahitian resin

Hawaiian Distillers lava and Hapawood

Maori resins

Ok, now it's Freddie's turn to post his collection. RJ,you're after him.
Buzzy Out!

EDIT: I added everything I got since this original post right here:

On 2010-01-03 20:24, Bay Park Buzzy wrote:
More lava eye candy I picked up since the last megapost of my collection:

Larger HIP stuff

Polyart, Lava ray, and Hohokee(sp?)

Schirman

Coco Joe's

Hapawood hula ashtray is a HIP, the rest cocojoe

HIP penholder and Cocojoes

Coco Joe's jewel fish donated by Ookoolady:

CocoJoe's, upper right Polyart

Surprisingly, I still have room for more. A lot more!

Extra thanks to all of you who have been pointing me in the right direction when you see something out there that I don't have!

Buzzy Out!

On 2010-03-15 14:37, Bay Park Buzzy wrote:
New stuff to blend in with all of the old stuff that I already have:

SuperJumbo HIP tiki donated from the HOKU collection

Hapawood HIP shelllady ashtray:

Polyart, Guam, and AliiGold

CCJ's tiki penholder notepad:

Two CCj pendants and a letter opener:

Buzzy Out!

On 2010-05-13 22:38, Bay Park Buzzy wrote:
.

And while I'm here, another update of new pieces recently added to the collection:

CCJ's Alii Gold Aloha Beauty

Coco joes and a Polyart lighter

Cocojoes Strong god pendant

Unmkarked tiki and Guam ashtray

I picked up a lot of old "made in Hawaii" sand and stone resin composites:

Buzzy Out!

On 2010-08-29 20:18, Bay Park Buzzy wrote:

And while I'm here, I'll update the master list by crossing off these new additions:

2 HIPs, 1 coco joes, amd a Guam

Coco Joes

heads

HIPs

Polyart

Guams

Polystone and Pied Piper:

Only a few more on Da List now!
Buzzy Out!

On 2010-09-07 11:45, Bay Park Buzzy wrote:

And some more new ones I just got or ones that I forgot to add to the last post:
Coco Joe's

HIP-donated by HOKU

Polystone:

New Zealand Maori resin wahine:

Buzzy Out!

On 2011-01-10 22:42, Bay Park Buzzy wrote:
Here is the lot of recent stuff that I added to the collection:

Coco joes

Coco Joes

Coco Joes

HIP olivine and pendant

Polyart

Big island sand

Island art

Polystone

Exotic creations

Unmarked

Guam made in saipan

I did a rough count and I added about 100 pieces in the last year.
Buzzy Out!

On 2012-05-17 12:57, Bay Park Buzzy wrote:
I went cold turkey from collecting and buying stuff on ebay for six months last year. After that, I went back to adding pieces as usual to the ever expanding collection. I think i averaged adding just over 1 a week since the break.

Here are the new additions:

Coco Joe's

HIP

Schirman

PolyArt

Island Art

Guam, Hilo, Saipan tikis

Other/unmarked

unmarked monkey and Big island sands

Buzzy Out!

On 2012-09-24 23:46, Bay Park Buzzy wrote:
More friends found their way into my home over the last few months:

Polyart:

That one was on Da "most wanted" List for a while

Coco Joe's:

That Kalua King's pig bowl was another most wanted struck off Da list!

HIP:

Randoms:

Guams:

Maori:

I wanted the set of these guys for a while too:

They're attached to a lamp:

unmarked, but I think they were Schirman's?

I need a new list...
Buzzy Out!

On 2013-07-31 21:36, Bay Park Buzzy wrote:
Time for another new additions to the collection update :

Still averaging a little over one new one a week.

Pendants grouped L-R, Unmarked Hawaiian Eye, Polyart, Lava ray, Coco Joe's, HIP

Coco Joe's

Large HIP

HIP composites

HIP

Polyart

Mixed Heads

Schirman, pied Piper, Holokehaa(sp)

Island arts

Guams

United Airlines, BIP? thermometer, and unmarked ashtray

Copy

New Zealand maori resins: gateway tours, Alan Davey, unmarked

Alan Davey

Buzzy Out!

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Jeeeeeez! ...and loading, and loading, and.... You clearly are a man possessed! Some outstanding, never before witnessed pieces in there! I had to take a break or my brain was gonna explode.
You know I heard that when one adds the last piece to the collection, it all will come alive and....

Amazing....lots of great designs there I have never seen before. Great job Buzzy! This is an invaluable resource preserved for posterity now.
Hard to believe, but I actually have a Coco Joe's that's not shown there...

Ya if there is a piece your looking for let us know ....

ha! hand shake

Money well spent... Thank you Buzzy...I can look at them all day...

uuhhh---sick!!!i'm speechless.. what an unreal collection---thanks for posting ---

Are you kidding me?? That is the greatest collection of lava I have ever seen. Thanks for sharing all of that and I still have the ashtray you are missing for the bottom of that bottle!

PTD

WOW! Buzzy thanks for taking the time to post all of them like that. Hell of a lot of eye candy.

What are you missing?

Holy lava figures Buzzy, that's a lot of Coco Joes.

Great collection, post the missing pieces when you get them.

DC

WOW!

I want to place my order for the as yet unwritten collectors book of Coco Joes goodies. Now someone has to write it.

AND... It's probably in the 16 pages I just went through, back in the straighten out your tiki part, but... What's the story on the bent tikis? Is the "fire at the factory " story true?

Cool, now please take photos of the backs of them, the right sides of them, the left sides of them, the tops of them, and of course the bottoms of them. Also, please take photos of them individually.

Wow, that was amazing. Mahalo.

Adding to an already dense thread. Didn't see this little ad posted yet.