Tiki Finds

A couple of small Trechikoffs, hand signed by the artist in 1965.
These are the smaller ones that were sold at Eatons (as in not 4' x 4').

Great Minds Drink Alike

[ Edited by: Tikiwahine 2007-08-13 12:01 ]

Wow! They're gorgeous, Wahine. They'd look fine on the walls of your tiki bar. If the autographs are authentic I'm pretty sure that'd make them more valuable, but it's hard to tell from a scan -- you're going to have to send them to me for verification :)

I went to a local Sal Army & found 3 records & a set of four Barrel Mugs:

Live at the Polynesian Palace - Don Ho

Paradise Regained - Leo Addeo & his Orchestra

Sailing along the Wailua River

The Barrels I've described Here, I'll have pictures when I can develop them.

I found the following coconut mug at a Salvation Army in Mass. recently.
I haven't seen one quite this shape before.

--SBiM

Here are my finds from the weekend.

One large CocoJoes # 151 $5
CocoJoes "Hawaii" Letter opener #53 (I think)$1,
Unmarked Tiki mug $5 "A strange hybrid mug that looks like a cross between the Orchids R-3 and a Treasure Craft Mug" - Pg 60, Tiki Quest.

Its been 2 weeks (due to the holidays) that I've had a chance to go to the swapmeet, so not too bad.

Here are some vintage Moai lights my brother found for me a few weeks ago. He said he paid $1.00 to fill-up a box at a garage sale, so if you break it down by how much stuff he fit in the box, he paid about 15 cents for these.

[ Edited by: TikiTrevor 2006-01-08 13:40 ]

Tikiwahine, those look wonderful!

Just got back from thrifting and found a few trinkets:
A black and white flower print shirt, a wooden bowl that I will use as a fresh fruit bowl, a Buddha from Benihanas in Tokyo, a barrel mug with a handle that has a very 50's looking Daytona Beach decal on it, a chrome jigger that has 3/4 oz on one side and 1 1/4 oz on the other, a purple mug with an unusual face that reads "Accoutrements" on the bottom, and a Trader Vics coconut mug. I spent $10 for everything. :)

Any idea how old the coconut mug might be? I don't know if these are still made or when they stopped making them. I'm also curious about the Daytona Beach mug. I realize it was probably bought in a gift shop or something, but it still caught my eye because the decal looks so old.

Thanks for looking!

Fink Daddy, that purple mug came in a set of four (different designs and colors, one of each). I believe Tiki Farm & Archie McPhee sell the set, but it's a common set to find in many retail stores when spring mechandise comes out.

Great finds man!

http://www.unklejohn.com

My Tiki Lounge http://unklejohn.suddenlaunch.com/index.cgi

[ Edited by: Unkle John 2006-01-08 23:00 ]

Found a decent shirt today, aloha crossed with billiards. I also found an Arthur Lyman record for $2.

That is one of the few Arthur Lyman records I still need for my collection. Great find!

[ Edited by: Chub 2006-01-11 16:46 ]

Went thrifting again on Saturday.

A super heavy-duty Hoover brand blender. Came with a recipe book that was printed in 1971.

3 cute shot-sized tiki mugs. The one on the right is slightly chipped.

I didn't find any tiki in Milwaukee for over a year, then BAM, I find it all over. :D

Just a note on that blender. Traditionally, Polynesian cocktails are not blended, but made with a top MIXER (before that, they were hand shaken of course). Best known are the Hamilton Beach ones. Blenders came into style with the Margarita cocktail.

The old time mixologists insist on mixers, stating that the resulting texture is different.

On 2006-01-15 08:42, bigbrotiki wrote:
The old time mixologists insist on mixers, stating that the resulting texture is different.

Plus, they're easier to keep clean.

i use the Hello Kitty model for mixing/frothing drinks

Found this LP.

nice record makutiki! Les Baxter doing songs from South Pacific? Too cool.
I found a really sweet aloha shirt this weekend from Toes on the Nose. Picked it up at the goodwill for $5.99. It's got some drinks on it (inlcuding what appears to be an Orchids of Hawaii, R-5. It also has the menu cover (I think) from the traders, complete with the maori style tiki.
I also found this mug, which was somewhat confusing. If I don't uncover any information from this thread, maybe I'll post in general tiki. The mug is from the Warehouse Restaurant, and below it says Newport Beach and Marina Del Rey. There's no stamp or maker design on the bottom. Here's a photo:

Sorry for the crappy picture, I didn't realize it was so blurry. Does anyone know anything about the Warehouse Restaurant?
Thanks!

Does anyone know anything about the Warehouse Restaurant?
Thanks!

Try here. http://www.usmenuguide.com/thewarehouse.html I've never been, but I think this is it.

hello peeps, i've got tiki pmc peanut mugs for trade.any one intersted reply back thanx, trader jess

Does anyone know anything about the Warehouse Restaurant?
Thanks!

Nestled in the Yacht harbor in Marina Del Rey, it still has it's original exterior landscaping, with Koy fish in the lagoon and old growth bamboo in the parking lot, and still serves a mean rum barrel cocktail (in the above container). Built by Burt Hixson in the early 60s, in the Trader/Beachcomber style. Burt used to be the skipper on John Wayne's private yacht (infamous for it's stag parties), and travelled all over the world as documentary camera man. In the restaurant there are great photos of him with various natives holding the Warehouse menu, very funny. In the 70s, he opened Beachbum Burt's (Book of Tiki p. 79), but this endeavor did not last very long.

Here's pictures from a night at the Warehouse last year with Tiki Bird, Utopian Dreem, Dr. Z, Dolphin Tiki and myself:

http://photo.humuhumu.com/v/thewarehouse/

As bigbro says, they're more nautical than tiki, but they do serve drinks in an array of different tiki mugs, including a rum barrel like the one you have above. AFAIK, the Marina del Rey location is the only one left, so your mug is at least a few years old. I remember the gang talking about the different locations there once were when we were there that night, maybe they can chime in. If you post it separately from Tiki Finds, you may be more likely to get a response (plus, others will be able to find it easier in the future if they search for "Warehouse").

wow! super! Thanks for the responses! I'm pretty amazed at the great responses here. Thanks to everyone for sharing their knowledge. Humu, I'll try posting elsewhere, do you think general or locating would be best?

On 2006-01-16 11:03, TikiJosh wrote:
Does anyone know anything about the Warehouse Restaurant?

http://www.thewarehousemdr.com/

Do you want another one for a set? I have several I would love to trade.

On Sunday I went to the monthly swapmeet in Long Beach. The swapmeet is large, but instead of trying to see it all - scanning for mugs, I decided to take it slow. I wasn't on any schedule, so I made a point to stop at every booth with postcards or photos and search through them diligently. At the end of 5 hours, I had only covered about a third of the Swapmeet, but I had these good finds:

:up: The Royal Hawaiian in Baker. (see this thread:)
http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=14838&forum=2&hilite=royal%20hawaiian

:up: Tony's On The Pier, Redondo Beach, CA. Still a great place to get a Mai Tai in the Crow's Nest, beneath the giant fish-float lamps.

:up: Vintage Hawaiian Ku.

:up: Two duplicate postcards of the Warehouse in Marina Del Rey, which just came up in discussion on this thread.

:up: kinda weak image of the Hawaiian Punch Pavillion at Sea World San Diego. But I found some better ones too :down:

:up: Another weak image of the Aku Aku at the Stardust

:up: Vintage snapshot of a boy and his tiki. Probably Hawaii. Anyone know where?

:up: Chef's at Waikiki. Like the juxtaposition of tiki masks with the modern furniture.

:up: Sam's Seafood Giftshop, with the cool tiki mug display.

Overall, I paid a fraction of what these would have cost me on eBay. Plus I bought a fair number of rare non-tiki cards to sell on eBay myself, to re-coup my costs. I'd call it a sucessful day, although my neck is still sore from looking through all those boxes of postcards.

Sabu

[ Edited by: Sabu The Coconut Boy 2006-01-17 12:26 ]

Dang! You always find the coolest stuff. Do they do the Long Beach meet every week? I'd be interested in checking that out sometime. Not to compete, mind, but if you only got through a third of it, there should be plenty for me to check out.

Great stuff, as always, Sabu.
I alaways liked that Sam's gift shop photo. A veritable treasure trove of stuff. On a personal level, I do enjoy seeing mention of MDR's Warehouse. It's where this little midnite got stated in most things "Tiki". The ole Sarge would come into town on business when I was in college and take me there. Dad didn't have a large laundry list of potential dining spots, he worked at Hughes Helicopters for quite some time and the Marina was right next door. He'd pick me up at 'SC and it was invariably, "Let's get some dinner, how 'bout Warehouse?". I knew it was coming every time, but I never said "Nah, how about some other place, just once?"

On that small snapshot. I thought it might be the shopping center on Kalakaua Ave in Waikiki. I have a pc featuring the exterior and there are many Tikis lining the storefronts. Maybe, it's hard to tell, probably not. Not sure, could be.

midnite

Cool pictures Sabu T. C. B.!

[ Edited by: Bete 2006-01-17 16:55 ]

TikiJosh - The Long Beach Swap Meet is held on the 3rd Sunday of every month. By all means, come on down. PM me with a cellphone # so we can meet up during or afterwards. There's always a few of us TC'ers there. Here's the website with info:
http://www.longbeachantiquemarket.com/

Midnight - You had a privileged and pampered college life. My dad says nowadays, "If I knew you were going to be into Tiki this much, I would have taken you to all those places when you were a kid." I'm just thankful that we still have the Warehouse and Tony's On The Pier to visit today. I hereby resolve to visit each of them several times this year. Who knows how long they'll last.

I was also reminded of that postcard of Kalakua Avenue. It could be. Maybe.

Sabu

Wow Sabu, persistence pays off! I just don't have the patience to slog through all those postcards to find the treasures. There are BOXES and BOXES of them at the flea market, and a lot of them aren't sorted in categories. We were there at Long Beach this last Sunday, but didn't see you. Next time I'll keep an eye out for someone sifting through the postcards!

When did Sam's Seafood have a giftshop?

Does anyone actually have the Sam's Seafood tiki mug in the above pic?

TBird.

The old giftshop at Sam's existed in the 1960s and maybe into the 1970s. The current owner says it took up the narrow front room immediately to the right of the entrance doorway, as you're entering the dining room proper. This room is mostly kept closed and for storage, but we did get to use it to host King Kukulele's birthday party last year.

Tikibird - Your's is the thousand-dollar question (because that's probably the price that mug would fetch on eBay today). I've heard a rumor of a rumor about a collector who might own one. Also, I think Trader Pup says he saw one appear on eBay over three years ago. I'm going garage/estate-saling in Huntington Beach this Saturday, hoping to get a clue in my own personal search.

More common (but still not that common) is the DAGA Moai mug that they used later, with the Sam's Seafood logo stencilled on the back:

Here's an artist's rendering of the rare mug and the matching volcano bowl from an old Sam's Seafood drink menu:

Sabu

[ Edited by: Sabu The Coconut Boy 2006-01-18 18:10 ]

The DAGA moai is pretty sweet. I'd probably kill someone for one of those volcano bowls. Too cool. Sam's has a special place in my heart. It was one of the first tiki bars I ever went to. My wife and I did the rehearsal dinner for our wedding there, too. I love that place......

man, that tiki mug display....yum!
I'm curious about the green fogcutter looking mugs behind the first row.
what's the deal with those?

for the last couple years there has been a Daga "menehune magic" style mug from Sam's at a local antique shop. I dont know if it is still there, but it is the kind with the menehune guy leaning over a bowl, with the sam's logo on the bowl. (same as the daga moai mug sabu posted above) if anyone is interested, it was $6 & I could check to see if it is still there

Hit the flea market today and found a few items.

A Louie B Ceramics seahorse mug and a shell swag lamp.

A swell souvenir photo from the Hawaiian Room at the Hotel Lexington NY NY.

On 2006-01-19 10:49, bigbadtikidaddy wrote:
I'm curious about the green fogcutter looking mugs behind the first row.
what's the deal with those?

Here's a higher-resolution picture of that fogcutter mug in the postcard. You can also see that there are both brown and green versions of the fogcutter on that shelf. :down:

Now Here's a picture of two fogcutter mugs manufactured by Spurlin for the Tahitian Village :down:

What do you all think? The old Sam's drink menu lists the fogcutter as one of their drinks, so it makes sense that they would be selling fogcutter mugs. But were they Spurlin fogcutters? If so, then maybe the signature kneeling tiki mug and bowl were also made by Spurlin. It's an intriguing possibility. Do you know of other companies that manufactured fogcutter mugs?

Sabu

P.S. Kono - that souvenir photo folder from the Hawaiian Room is priceless. I'm a big fan of those. That artwork on the outside is beautiful. Nice mug and lamp too.

On 2006-01-21 23:38, Sabu The Coconut Boy wrote:

But were they Spurlin fogcutters? If so, then maybe the signature kneeling tiki mug and bowl were also made by Spurlin. It's an intriguing possibility.

Here is a pix (appropriated from swankola.com. Sorry Sweet Daddy Tiki!) of a Spurlin mug. Don't know if this helps narrow down the mystery any. There are similarities between this mug and the myster mug... but then again this is a fairly standard design for Tiki mugs. Could it be that the mugs in questions may be bigger and more detailed versions? Hmmmmmm.....

Am I tiki or not? Does anyone have any info?

Great find TG!
That looks like one of those fancy spanish tiki mugs complete with dry ice pockets!

*Tikisgrl wrote
Am I tiki or not? Does anyone have any info? *

Oh sí, es tan mucho Tiki!

In Espana, they call it the London Bitter:

"For strong and adventurous characters full of imagination, you cannot confound its flavour"

Wild, whacky stuff. You can't confound the flavors. Go ahead and just try, you can't... Sabor inconfundible!

Senor midnite... bullfighter, lover, notary public.

Ya, great find. I had to go all the way too Spain to get mine. If you are on Ooga Mooga, there is a template set-up for this mug.

tikisgrl, I have to ask, where in the Lowell area did you pick THAT up?

I actually found it in Palmer, Mass, Granite! It was marked "Arte 4 vase" and on sale.

Any info on Arte 4 anyone?

Tikisgrl

Here's some of the stuff I got this weekend.

I got nine of these glasses. They are about 4" tall.

This weekend we found a couple of mugs:

a bamboo style one and an R-1 from the Jeckyl and Hyde Club

And we found this record that I am interested in trading:

As you can see, it has 5 discs and is in near mint condition. It has the original plastic on it, and the discs look like they've never been played (although I am sure they were). I don't collect records, so I will entertain offers of trade for it if anyone else is. I'm more interested in mugs and statues. PM me if you want to trade.

--SBiM

On 2006-01-21 23:38, Sabu The Coconut Boy wrote:
Here's a higher-resolution picture of that fogcutter mug in the postcard. You can also see that there are both brown and green versions of the fogcutter on that shelf.
What do you all think? The old Sam's drink menu lists the fogcutter as one of their drinks, so it makes sense that they would be selling fogcutter mugs. But were they Spurlin fogcutters? If so, then maybe the signature kneeling tiki mug and bowl were also made by Spurlin. It's an intriguing possibility. Do you know of other companies that manufactured fogcutter mugs?

Sabu

Wow Sabu, great work! Thanks for the efforts my friend. I would think you might be safe to assume they are Spurlin mugs, but it sure would be nice to know for sure.
Are those fogcutter mugs yours? They are quite tasty.
As for the tiki mugs, I think they kinda look like a cross betweem the kona kai mug & this modern china mug.

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention my score of the day:
The uber rare fogcutter from the Lanai in San Mateo.
Snagged two of these babies for $3!!!

Damn near shit my pants when I saw them!

[ Edited by: bigbadtikidaddy 2006-01-23 18:11 ]

bbtd~ NO WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY! oh my freaking god! that is the total score of the century!!!!!!!

why is it, when i have a cool mug find for cheap, it is some dumb barrel mug or something.

i need to go pick my jaw off of the ground now.

Hiya Cleen-
YES way! It was a great day indeed & probably one of the better scores I've made in the wild. I had to do a triple take because the thrift that I found them in is an endless sea of total crap & I usually find nothing there.
Everyone has their lucky days & being the passionate tireless hunters that you & Hat are, I'm sure you'll be next!
(& as you know, I rarely keep my doubles, so you may have a crack at one on ebay soon!)
Maybe those sidewinder fangs Martin made me last week improved my karma?

[ Edited by: bigbadtikidaddy 2006-01-24 11:35 ]

Re: Lanai Logo Fogcutter

• I rarely keep my doubles, so you may have a crack at one on ebay soon*

I would have bought those mug, if I saw them. Betchya get some offers for one. I'd hold out, hold out for the big money. The dividend checks are in for this quarter, and I'm flush. Flush like a 6-gallon toilet. I mean flush!

Koalaman