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Calling all Tiki Archaeologists |
johnnyvelvet
Tiki Centralite
Joined: Jun 12, 2013
Posts: 17
From: Louisiana
|  Posted: 2013-07-05 08:00 am Permalink
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On 2013-06-23 07:48, TikiTacky wrote:
Also, as bigbrotiki mentioned in that post, patents are also a good place to look. Can you do a free patent search online going back this far?
As I read this sentence the first time, I thought it said '...parents are also a good place to look.' And it occurred to me - surely there must be a dated photograph in a family album somewhere, showing a night out on the town, with drinks on the table in the aforementioned mugs. None in my family, though they remember a local Houston place called Tiki Tiki that served in the mugs starting around 1960.
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Hale Tiki
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Oct 19, 2004
Posts: 1798
From: Pittsburgh
| Posted: 2013-07-05 08:13 am Permalink
Yes and No. But the patent thing has been discussed quite a few times here on TC. Too busy to find the threads at the moment.
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TikiTacky
Grand Member (first year) 
Joined: Nov 23, 2010
Posts: 1285 | Posted: 2013-07-05 08:20 am Permalink
I found a few posts, but didn't see any indicating a way to search for patents prior to 1963 without just browsing through the images. I didn't uncover anything new when I tried, just the Vic Bergeron patents mostly.
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Fez Moai
Grand Member (first year)
Joined: Dec 01, 2013
Posts: 268
From: Parts unknown
| Posted: 2014-01-04 12:33 am Permalink
Maybe someone could look up these people and see if they are still around.
http://www.corporationwiki.com/California/Corte-Madera/otagiri-mercantile-company-inc/29576873.aspx
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Atomic Tiki Punk
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jul 19, 2009
Posts: 5872
From: Costa Misery
| Posted: 2014-01-04 03:04 am Permalink
They are not.
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